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 content ...
. 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
A newsroom is the central place where journalists—reporters, editors, and producers, associate producers, news anchors, news designers, photojournalists, videojournalists, associate editor, residence editor, visual text editor, Desk Head, s ...
). 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
Solar Sports
Solar may refer to:
Astronomy
* Of or relating to the Sun
** Solar telescope, a special purpose telescope used to observe the Sun
** A device that utilizes solar energy (e.g. " solar panels")
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from 2004 to 2007 and returned on
Solar News Channel by December 3, 2012, with a simulcast on
Solar Sports
Solar may refer to:
Astronomy
* Of or relating to the Sun
** Solar telescope, a special purpose telescope used to observe the Sun
** A device that utilizes solar energy (e.g. " solar panels")
** Solar calendar, a calendar whose dates indica ...
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
Chris Tiu, 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
Amanpour.
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
Enhanced community quarantine in Luzon
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and ''cordon sanitaire'' measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon a ...
caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
, 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
One Sports)
*Cesca Litton (currently moved to
One Sports)
*
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 pro ...
(moved as digital head of
ABS-CBN Sports (2017-2020), currently as Creative Director for Sports Programmes on
Cignal TV)
* 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
The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP; en, Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines) is a broadcast media organization in the Philippines which provides its members broadcasting standards. The KBP was organized on April 27, 19 ...
)
*2017 – Best Sports Program – Sports Desk @ 11am
See also
*
List of programs broadcast by CNN Philippines
This is a list of programs being broadcast by CNN Philippines, airing on VHF terrestrial television station RPN-TV 9 Manila and other RPN stations nationwide, owned and managed by Nine Media Corporation, through the facilities of Radio Philip ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sports Desk (Philippine Tv program)
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2020s Philippine television series
CNN Philippines original programming
CNN Philippines News and Current Affairs
English-language television shows
Philippine sports television series
Solar Entertainment Corporation
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic