Up Close is a sports interview show that aired on ESPN for some 20 years. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively An interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee where Questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to
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History
Early years
The program debuted in 1981 on USA Network and was created by the advertising agency Foote, Cone and Belding to advertise one of its clients, Mazda cars. The year 1981 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1981. USA Network (commonly referred to as USA) is an American Cable television channel with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005 Draftfcb is one of the largest global Advertising agency networks with its headquarters in both New York and Chicago ( is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan. Mazda SportsLook moved to ESPN in 1982 and was subsequently rechristened Up Close. The year 1982 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1982. This was after it was called SportsLook.
Time slots
Once it arrived at ESPN, SportsLook was slotted before SportsCenter. SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network The show aired at 6 p. m. Eastern time, followed by SportsCenter at 6:30. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America The show remained in that slot until September 1999, when SportsCenter was expanded to an hour and Up Close, as it was then renamed, moved to 5:30 p. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The year 1999 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1999. m.
Hosts
The original host of Up Close was Roy Firestone, who served as host for 13 years. Roy Firestone (born on December 8, 1953 in Miami Beach Florida) is a Commentator and Sports Journalist. During this time, both Firestone and the show won many CableACE Awards, then the gold standard for cable television programming. The gold standard is a monetary system in which a region's common media of exchange are paper notes that are normally freely convertible into pre-set fixed quantities of Gold When Firestone left in 1994, Chris Myers became the new host; he stayed there until 1998, when Gary Miller replaced him. The year 1994 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1994. Chris Myers (born 1959 is an American Sports broadcaster who works for numerous media outlets and covers several different sports The year 1998 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1998. Gary Miller (born October 31, 1956) is an American Sportscaster and Radio host. Miller was the show's host when Up Close signed off in 2001. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001.
Notable interviews
Myers interviewed O.J. Simpson live in November 1995; this was Simpson's first full-length interview since he was acquitted in the so-called "trial of the century" a month earlier. Orenthal James "O J" Simpson (born July 9 1947 who has also been called The Juice, is a retired American football player, Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The year 1995 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1995. The O J Simpson murder case was a highly publicized US Criminal trial in which O
Some interviews, notably those with college basketball coaches Jim Valvano and Bob Knight, are still occasionally shown on ESPN Classic under the name Up Close Classics. College basketball most often refers to the American Basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of James Thomas Anthony Valvano ( March 10 1946 – April 28 1993) nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college Basketball Robert Montgomery (Bob or Bobby Knight (born October 25 1940 in Massillon Ohio) also known as "The General" is an American former college For the Canadian channel of this name see ESPN Classic (Canada.
Broadcast locations
In 1999, Up Close broadcasts were moved from studios in Los Angeles to the ESPN Zone in Anaheim, on Disneyland property. The year 1999 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1999. A television studio is an installation in which Television or Video productions take place either for Live television, for recording Live to tape Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-themed restaurants that include arcades TV studios and radio studios
Cancellation
Eventually, declining ratings and the rise of a confrontational style of talk (on television in general, not just among sports shows) led to the show's demise, which took place on Friday, October 19, 2001. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001. Three days later, Up Close was replaced with Unscripted with Chris Connelly, which updated the Up Close format to be more contemporary. Unscripted with Chris Connelly is a half-hour daily interview program that aired on ESPN from October 22, 2001 until June 25, The new program lasted less than a year.
External links
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