The Best Damn Sports Show Period
| The Best Damn Sports Show Period | |
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| Genre |
Sports Talk show |
| Presented by | See: Hosts |
| Composer(s) | Al Eaton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jermiah Bosgang Mark Mayer,George Greenberg Robert Lifton John Entz |
| Producer(s) | Eric Weinberger Eric Shanks Tally Hair Jason Cahill Graham Hughes Brian DeCloux Michael Hughes Dana Leiken Laura Mickelson Laura Marcus Joel Santos Clark Pingree |
| Running time | 45–48 min |
| Production company(s) | Fox Sports Network |
| Distributor | Fox Sports Network |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox Sports Net |
| Original release | July 23, 2001 – June 30, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Best Damn Sports Show Period is an American sports television show that aired on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50 countdown shows and other sports specialty shows. Since its debut on July 23, 2001, BDSSP welcomed thousands of guests and aired more than 1,300 episodes. The last original show aired June 30, 2009; however, FSN will tape a handful of Top 50 specials.
The show aired weeknights at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time, usually after FSN Final Score, or later if there was a local live sporting event that ran longer than expected, depending on the region and telecast schedule.
In 1999, FSN's nightly sports news show - Fox Sports News and what was later renamed the National Sports Report - was losing ratings ground to ESPN's SportsCenter. The executives at FSN wanted a 2-3 hour show that could provide consistent, original programming on nights when there were no local basketball, baseball, or hockey games being broadcast in FSN regions.
The decision was made to do a sports roundtable type of show with the same camaraderie and energy as the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. Fox NFL Sunday, which debuted in 1994 on FSN's network brother - Fox Sports, quickly became the top-rated NFL pregame show due in part to the personalities of NFL veterans Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long. However, the new show on FSN would focus on not just football, but every sport, as well as the entertainment world. Fox Sports' president David Hill modeled many aspects of the show from The Footy Show, a sports talk show which covered the Australian Football League in Australia (Hill's home country).
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