The Scott Van Pelt version of SportsCenter is expanding to Sundays. In other news, NBC Sports is renaming the rest of its Comcast SportsNet RSNs, and Fox Sports is bringing back the BIG3.
SVP SportsCenter Spreads to Sundays
- The Scott Van Pelt-hosted Midnight ET edition of SportsCenter will expand to Sunday nights when the NFL season starts next month, ESPN announced Wednesday. The Sunday night show will start either at Midnight or as soon as NBC’s Sunday Night Football game ends and have a football-oriented focus. It will include an homage to the old Chris Berman and Tom Jackson-led NFL Primetime shows and feature regular contributions by ESPN NFL analysts Louis Riddick and Ryan Clark. ESPN will still air a regular SportsCenter both before and after the SVP version. [ESPN PR 8.23]
NBC Renaming Remaining RSNs
- The remaining Comcast SportsNet regional sports networks will be rebranded under the NBC Sports umbrella on October 2, a move that was inevitable after CSN Bay Area and CSN California rebranded earlier this year. Some networks are getting a complete name change, with CSN Mid-Atlantic switching to NBC Sports Washington and CSN New England to NBC Sports Boston. The move does not impact SportsNet New York. [NBC Sports PR 8.23]
Fox Brings Back BIG3
- Fox Sports has reached a one-year contract extension with the BIG3 basketball league, it was announced Wednesday. There was no immediate word on whether there will be any changes to the television coverage, which this season has aired on a one-day tape delay. This weekend marks the first ever live BIG3 broadcast, the championship game on the FOX broadcast network. [Fox Sports PR 8.23]
