College GameDay (football)
College GameDay ( German: College Gameday ) is a three-hour sports program of the American television channel ESPN, which will air on Saturday mornings. Topics are mainly game views and background analysis to the college football games of each match day. The show, which is located since 1987 in the program of ESPN, is produced at different locations in the vicinity of the football stadium, a university since 1993. With an average of around two million viewers per edition (2009) it is one of the most successful shows in the regular program of ESPN and, apart from the live broadcasts of the games, the most popular television programs in the field of College Football. In the years 2007 and 2009, they were each awarded an Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly" ( German: Outstanding Weekly Studio Show) awarded, in addition, they received the 2006 Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award from the National Football Foundation.
Concept
Key aspects of College GameDay are views of the respective on game upcoming games in college football, background analysis to the participating teams, corresponding Ergebnistips the commentators as well as historical retrospectives. The transmission time is since the year 2010, three hours of which the first hour on Saturday mornings from 9:00 bis 10:00 o `clock college sports channel ESPNU and the next two hours from 10:00 bis 12:00 o` clock main program of ESPN are shown.
The radiated since 1987 mission was to 1992 in the studios of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. Since 1993, it is produced from week to week alternately in another city in the immediate vicinity of the football stadium of the respective college team. The site selection is carried out according to various criteria. In general, there are venues for matches between leading teams of Conference Championship games, the BCS National Championship Game or other fixtures with special meaning, such as historically existing rivalries between two teams. In appreciation of the American armed forces, the mission was already produces twice at the venue of the match between the teams in the United States Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy, and also places of games between historical African- American colleges or between teams from Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA) have hosted the show.
From the air since 2000, there is a branch in the radio program of ESPN, and since 2005, expenditure for college basketball. Since 2007, College GameDay will be sent on ESPN HD in HDTV format. With an average of two million viewers per broadcast the 2009 season was the most successful in the history of the show. This corresponded to the Nielsen ratings, the data collected by the Nielsen Media Research ratings in the United States, an annual average of 1.7 percent of all U.S. television households. Main sponsor of the show is the U.S. home improvement retailer The Home Depot. The theme music is a lyrically modified version of the title Comin 'to Your City, which was published in September 2005 by the Countryduo Big & Rich.
Commentators
Among the commentators of College GameDay include sportscaster Chris Fowler, who acts as host, as well as Erin Andrews and Lee Corso, is the only member of the team since the start of the program in 1987 there. With Kirk Herbstreit, who played from 1989 to 1993 as a quarterback for the team of Ohio State University, and former NFL player Desmond Howard also include two former football player for the regular cast of the show. In addition, well-known athletes and other celebrities regular guests.
A traditional part of the program since 1996 that Lee Corso 's tip for the winner of the game taking place at the production announced by he puts his head a costume of the mascot of the respective team. In August 2000, at the College GameDay broadcast prior to the season opening game between teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, his rental car was hit during a storm in a flash, after a short time before in the Virginia Stadium Tech Hokies had predicted a victory for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Corso commented on this incident with the words: " I do not know what a Hokie. But God is one of them. "This game was initially postponed because of the storm and later canceled.