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Originally posted by baltassoc
I think you mean ESPN realized it could broadcast repeats of SportCenter (and the sport specific variations thereof like Baseball Tonight) 20 times a day.
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Not sure you've got the timing right there. Early on (like 1981), ESPN ran sportscenter in the morning (Tom Mees and Chris Berman) repeatedly. Then they cut out most of the sportscenter reruns from 7-9 am and put in some business show (like Investor's Business Review). I think, in my impetuous youth, wrote in to remind them that the show was neither entertainment nor sports and therefore didn't qualify under their network's name. So, they screwed me, and put on Body Shaping by Gilead. It got mildly better, but not much, when they put on Denise Austin instead (or before, bumping Gilead to the housewife hour of 10am). Finally, they returned to their roots with the
ad nauseum reruns of sportscenter sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.
Aussie rules, meanwhile, was on at various times including, IIRC, saturday mornings. But it didn't get bumped for sportscenter. It got bumped for real sports.
