Sports Tonight
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- CNN in the U.S. aired a show called Sports Tonight (also known as CNN/Sports Illustrated) from 1980 to 2001. This article is about a show in Australia.
Sports Tonight is a sports information program shown on Network Ten in Australia. The program is broadcast on Monday-Thursday at 10.30pm (combined with Ten News), Friday at 12.20am (Late Edition) and Saturday-Sunday at 5.30pm (Weekend Edition). The program provides up-to-date sports scores and team and player information for all codes of football and different sports across Australia.
The show has been running since 1993. From 1993 until 2005, the show ran for half an hour on each weeknight after Ten's Late News, instead of being combined with it. They merged in 2006, but there has been criticism by viewers that Sports Tonight is not long enough, and that it should have been left as how it was.
The show is currently branded as Toyota Sports Tonight. In 2006, the show promoted the upcoming Toyota Aurion, though the title did not contain the company name. In 2007, the graphics were updated and the rebranding occured.
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- Sports Tonight - Ten's Late News with Sports Tonight (Monday-Thursday): Brad McEwan
- Sports Tonight - Late Edition (Friday): Rob Canning
- Sports Tonight - Weekend Edition (Saturday): Rob Canning, (Sunday): Neil Cordy
Previous Hosts have included:
- Ryan Phelan (last appeared on Thursday, 21 December 2006)
- Bill Woods
- Tim Webster (first host. 1993 - unknown)
- Matthew White (last appeared on Sunday, 20 June, 2004)
Sports Tonight has many around the ground reporters across Australia. Some reporters include:
- Ian Cohen: AFL and Australian Open (tennis) reporter.
- Adam Hawse: NRL reporter
- Kelli Underwood: NBL reporter
- Leigh Diffey former motor racing reporter and temporary host of the show. He left the show in December 2006.
Sports Tonight has been nomintaed for the Most Popular Sports Program for the Logies a total of 8 times. The show was nominated in 1997 - 98, 2000, 2002 - 06. The show usually loses to The Footy Show, either the AFL or NRL version.