Country of origin Philippines First episode date 2004 Genre Sports Networks CNN Philippines, 9TV | Original language(s) English Final episode date 13 March 2015 Language English | |
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Created by Solar Entertainment Corporation Developed by Nine Media Corporation
Radio Philippines Network
CNN Philippines/CNN Starring Andrei Felix (Morning Anchor)
Mico Halili (Evening Anchor) Executive producer(s) Noel Zarate
Itos Valdez (present) Program creators Nine Media Corporation, Solar Entertainment Corporation Similar CNN Philippines Network, CNN Philippines Nightly N, Kapampangan News, Serbisyo All Access, Cebuano News | ||
CNN Philippines Sports Desk (formerly Solar SportsDesk, or simply Sports Desk) is a 30-minute Philippine sports news television program broadcast by CNN Philippines. 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 Mico Halili on primetime and Andrei Felix on weekday mornings (also a sports anchor on CNN Philippines New Day and Newsroom 8AM Edition). In its latest format, Sports Desk airs thrice every weekdays and weeknights, a morning edition at 11am, a primetime edition at 7pm and another at the usual 10pm timeslot. A weekend edition was launched on March 11, 2017, alongside Newsroom Weekend, and follows the newscast every Saturdays at 12:30PM PST, with Halili and Felix as anchors.
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Sports Desk was first broadcast on cable TV channel Solar Sports from 2004-2007 and returned on Solar News Channel by December 3, 2012, with a simulcast on Solar Sports 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, Sports Desk would either interrupt or pre-empt its normal broadcast.