SportsCenter Asia was a 30-minute sports news program, patterned after the SportsCenter USA, is the flagship sports newscast of ESPN Asia that airs every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., with repeats at 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Hong Kong-time in Southeast Asia, (except in the Philippines delay telecast at 9:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m) and at 8:30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. across India, SportsCenter drew on the worldwide resources of ESPN to bring the latest highlights from the biggest global sports.
SportsCenter Asia was officially launched on May 27, 2002, with Jason Dasey as its original anchor. It was recognised as the region's number one show of its kind by winning the 'Best Sports Program' category at the 2003 Asian Television Awards and received a commendation for 'Best News Program' at the 2005 Asian Television Awards. Other past anchors of the program include Uday Joshi, Bethan Evans, Cheryl Liew, David Basheer and Arnold Gay. Dez Corkhill was the original executive producer and sometimes appeared on the show as a football pundit. Former fill-in presenter Dave Roberts returned to Singapore in late 2011 to take over as Senior Executive Producer for SportsCenter and other news programs.
The show ended its run on January 25, 2013, when ESPN STAR Sports was re-branded Fox Sports Asia on January 28 and replaced by Fox Sports Central Asia.
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