Saturday Primetime

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Saturday Primetime

Genre	college basketball
Running time	2 hours+ until conclusion of game
Starring	Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale and Erin Andrews
Country of origin	USA
Original channel	ESPN (2005-)
Original run	January 22, 2005–Present

Saturday Primetime appears every Saturday during the college basketball regular season and is the ESPN game of the week as part of College GameDay. The official name is Saturday Primetime presented by Cisco Systems. Started in 2005, the game is featured where ever Rece Davis, Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas are for the college basketball version of College GameDay.

The games of the week airs every Saturday at 9 P.M. ET during the regular season with a one hour pregame show as part of College GameDay. The game is also seen in high definition on ESPNHD. Like Sunday Night Baseball, scheduling conflicts can result in the game being shown on ESPN2 and ESPN2HD. From it's debut, till 2006, Brad Nessler had called play-by-play, but in 2007, Dan Shulman took over for Nessler along with legendary college basketball guru Dick Vitale with color commentary and Erin Andrews with the sideline reports.

1 History
2 Personalities
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

On March 4, 2006, the one year anniversary of ESPNU, Saturday Primetime was seen on six different stations on the ESPN Family of Networks including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN 360, ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD. This was as part of the premiere of ESPNU's Full Circle series. On ESPN2 it was seen from the above the rim cam, on ESPNU it was seen on the Cameron Crazies Cam, on ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD it was seen in its normal high definition and on ESPN and ESPN 360 it was seen regularly.

[edit] Personalities

Some of the current and former personalities on Saturday Primetime have included:

[edit] Current

Erin Andrews: (field reporter, 2005-present)
Dan Shulman: (play-by-play, 2007-present)
Dick Vitale: (analyst, 2005-present)

[edit] Former

Brad Nessler: (play-by-play, 2005-2006)

[edit] By Year

Game	Play- by- Play	Analyst(s)	Field Reporter(s)
2005	Brad Nessler	Dick Vitale	Erin Andrews
2006	Brad Nessler
2007	Dan Shulman

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Press Release: NEW BASKETBALL VERSION OF COLLEGE GAMEDAY AND PRIMETIME GAME-OF-THE-WEEK TO DEBUT JAN. 22 ON ESPN

[edit] External links

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