SportsCenter Asia
| FOX SPORTS Central Asia | |
|---|---|
| Starring | see Cast |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 min |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox Sports Asia (2013) ESPN Asia (2002-2013) |
| Original release | May 27, 2002-January 25, 2013 (SportCenter Asia), January 28, 2013 – present (Fox Sports Central Asia) |
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| Website | |
Fox Sports Central Asia (formerly SportsCenter Asia) is the flagship sports newscast of Fox Sports Asia, launched on January 28, 2013 following the channel's launch. For sponsorship reasons, the new program was required to come up with a name and format similar to the original show.
SportsCenter Asia was a 30-minute sports news program, patterned after the SportsCenter USA, is the flagship sports newscast of ESPN Asia that aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., with repeats at 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Hong Kong-time in Southeast Asia, (except in the Philippines delay telecast at 9:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m) and at 8:30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. across India, SportsCenter drew on the worldwide resources of ESPN to bring the latest highlights from the biggest global sports.
SportsCenter Asia was officially launched on May 27, 2002, with Jason Dasey as its original anchor. It was recognised as the region's number one show of its kind by winning the 'Best Sports Program' category at the 2003 Asian Television Awards and received a commendation for 'Best News Program' at the 2005 Asian Television Awards. Other past anchors of the program include Uday Joshi, Bethan Evans, Cheryl Liew, David Basheer and Arnold Gay. Former CNBC Asia correspondent Colette Wong became a co-anchor in March 2004 with Steve Dawson joining in late 2004, employed initially as an assistant producer. Dez Corkhill was the original executive producer and sometimes appeared on the show as a football pundit. ESPN International football commentator Dave Roberts returned to Singapore in late 2011 to take over as Senior Executive Producer for SportsCenter and other news and production programs before leaving in early 2015.
As ESPN STAR Sports was re-branded Fox Sports Asia on January 28, the show was renamed as Fox Sports Central Asia.
Starting from April 30, 2007, a Malaysia version was launched, initially in English. SportsCenter Malaysia aired immediately before SportsCenter Asia, from 7pm local-time. It promised to focus more on local sports in Malaysia but instead repeated most of the same content seen on SportsCenter Asia with only a brief domestic sports section to keep costs down. For a short time, SportsCenter Malaysia used to feature on all ESPN stations in south East Asia before being limited to only been shown on ESPN in Malaysia.
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