"Sports at 11: Take 2" set to debut

[browna]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I remember having to use that weird touchtone yellow pages thing to get the scores on some games.
Or watching "Sports Scope" (the original headline sports/the score) and just waiting for the scores to cycle through to the game I was interested in.

Calgary Herald Talikes. Circa 1991/1992, then SportScope came around maybe that same year.
Many Saturdays with friends with a few Sports Select tickets in hand watching NHL scores (16/17 so too young for the bar). The odds for SS for the WEEK came out Mondays. Go get an NFL SS ticket during the intermission of the one HNIC game on TV.


Sports at 11 was light on sports outside of the Flames, certainly the final years.

That was clear from when Headline Sports started in 95 and you actually saw more highlights in 30 minutes for more then a few NHL games. And you saw a decent amount of sports highlights from NBA,MLB and other sports and leagues that Sports at 11 ignored or scrolled the scores when going to break.

CFCN covered amateur sports better.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I remember having to use that weird touchtone yellow pages thing to get the scores on some games.
Or watching "Sports Scope" (the original headline sports/the score) and just waiting for the scores to cycle through to the game I was interested in.

I remember that yellow pages thing. It had a name tha eludes me right now. I used to call it to get weekly wrestling rumours by... It wasn't Dave Meltzer (or was it?) but it was somebody who had a big presence in the wrestling rumours pages on the internet around the turn of the century.

There was also that channel that was all text based. The backgrounds were red green and blue. I don't remember which colour went where but a small bar along the top and a small bar along the bottom. One bar was for weather, one was for a sports ticker and the large section was scrolling news... or something like that. I think a local radio station was on that channel or something because that is where I'd hear Paul Harvey's Rest Of The Story.

[drewtastic]

Originally Posted by Buff

I remember that yellow pages thing. It had a name tha eludes me right now. I used to call it to get weekly wrestling rumours by... It wasn't Dave Meltzer (or was it?) but it was somebody who had a big presence in the wrestling rumours pages on the internet around the turn of the century.

There was also that channel that was all text based. The backgrounds were red green and blue. I don't remember which colour went where but a small bar along the top and a small bar along the bottom. One bar was for weather, one was for a sports ticker and the large section was scrolling news... or something like that. I think a local radio station was on that channel or something because that is where I'd hear Paul Harvey's Rest Of The Story.

I think the channel you’re referring to was Channel 4...news stories, weather, sports, all text based, background elevator music/66 CFR style songs...

I don’t know about it featuring Paul Harvey, but I’m pretty sure his show was featured on QR77...

[Buff]

Originally Posted by drewtastic

I think the channel you’re referring to was Channel 4...news stories, weather, sports, all text based, background elevator music/66 CFR style songs...

I don’t know about it featuring Paul Harvey, but I’m pretty sure his show was featured on QR77...

I remember it in Calgary a bit, but my teen years and since have been in Lethbridge so our radio would have been different. Hence Paul Harvey.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by drewtastic

I think the channel you’re referring to was Channel 4...news stories, weather, sports, all text based, background elevator music/66 CFR style songs...

I don’t know about it featuring Paul Harvey, but I’m pretty sure his show was featured on QR77...

Channel 4 was the only place to get news and information between the morning newspaper and the 6 o’clock news. It was the closest thing we had to the internet before the internet.

[browna]

Not Calgary channel 4, but same thing mostly.


SportScope. Has to be 1996 because of the Olympics. Started a few years earlier than this and it didn’t have Sports Select odds, but including them was a good idea. 1997 turned to live Headline Sports.

[timun]

Sport Scope; there's something I haven't seen in a long, long time...

[getbak]

"Feedback Fax"

Can you imagine having such a strong opinion about an all-text tv channel that you'd go out of your way to write a letter and then find a fax machine to send it to them?

[browna]

Originally Posted by getbak

"Feedback Fax"

Can you imagine having such a strong opinion about an all-text tv channel that you'd go out of your way to write a letter and then find a fax machine to send it to them?

Maybe, but email was in its infancy, and there was really no other way to contact them, especially considering people's notions of TV stations having a physical studio having a physical address.

Fax feedback I assume had them add Sports Select odds and probably other sports that they didn't know if was interest.