CNN Philippines Sports Desk (formerly ''Solar SportsDesk'', or simply Sports Desk) is a Philippine sports news television program broadcast by

CNN Philippines CNN Philippines (abbreviated as CNN PH) is a commercial broadcast, cable and satellite television network in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN) as the main conte ...

. It is CNN Philippines' go-to program for all-sports news, specials, and interviews with sports personalities here and around the world, hosted by sports journalist Charles Tiu on primetime and Andrei Felix on weekday mornings (also a sports anchor on CNN Philippines New Day and the morning edition of Newsroom). Sports Desk airs on weekdays at 10am (with a replay at 2:30pm) and 10pm, with a weekend recap edition on Saturdays at 12:30pm.

History

Sports Desk was first broadcast on cable TV channel

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from 2004 to 2007 and returned on

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by December 3, 2012, with a simulcast on

until August 2014 following SNC's rebrand as 9TV. As part of the expansion, Sports Desk also serves as a sports segment on some CNN Philippines newscasts. However, when major rolling news stories break across their timeslots, the Sports Desk program would either interrupt or pre-empt its normal broadcast. For instance, should the morning edition be pre-empted by a rolling coverage, a replacement live broadcast will take place at the 2:30 pm rerun timeslot. On September 3, 2017, the primetime edition of Sports Desk was moved to an earlier timeslot at 6:30pm, after News Night divides its full hour single newscast into two 30-minute editions. Three months later, on December 16, Halili stepped down from his anchor role as he left the CNN franchise. The program's basketball analyst Charles Tiu, brother of PBA veteran

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, was named as an interim host for the early evening and late night editions. The 6:30pm edition of SportsDesk aired its final episode on December 29, 2017, to give way to the full-time relaunch of

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. The cancellation was part of the network's reorganization. The remaining two editions remain intact. In March 2020, Sports Desk halted its productions due to the

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caused by the

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, but the news segment on various newscasts continued to air. In 2021, after a year of absence, Sports Desk returned on the air albeit on a weekday morning basis.

Anchors

Current

Andrei Felix Andrei Felix is a Filipino actor and television host. Personal life Felix formerly dated his ''Umagang Kay Ganda'' co-host Venus Raj Maria Venus Bayonito Raj (; ; born July 7, 1988) is an Filipino-Indian actress, model and beauty pageant ti ...

Former

*Jinno Rufino (currently a main presenter of ''The Game'' on

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) *Cesca Litton (currently moved to

) *

Mico Halili Mico Halili is a Filipino sports television personality, sportscaster and sports journalist. He is best known as the lead sportscaster for the basketball games of the PBA and UAAP. In October 2020, he became the Creative Director for sports pr ...

(moved as digital head of

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(2017-2020), currently as Creative Director for Sports Programmes on

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) * Charles Tiu – Basketball Analyst

Correspondent

Current

*Pauline Verzosa

Former

*Paolo Del Rosario *Paola Palma *Paul Garcia

Awards

;KBP Golden Dove Awards ( Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas) *2017 – Best Sports Program – Sports Desk @ 11am

References

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History

Anchors

Current

Former

Correspondent

Current

Former

Awards

See also

References