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4 unusual facts about The George Michael Sports Machine


The George Michael Sports Machine

Beginning in 2004, fellow WRC-TV sports anchor Lindsay Czarniak joined Sports Machine as a contributing correspondent and substitute host, and she became the official co-host of the program in September 2006.

In 2011, Czarniak left WRC to take a position at ESPN and initially was an overnight anchor at ESPNews before becoming a fixture on SportsCenter, where she anchors the 6 PM broadcast with John Anderson.

By the later years of Sports Machine, however, the rise of numerous specialty cable sports channels (notably ESPNews) and the expansion of Sunday evening local newscasts to either air an extended sportscast (an extra in common parlance) or a separate program to recap Sunday football and baseball action caused many stations to either drop the program or air it later in the night.

Current SportsCenter anchor Lindsay Czarniak, who was a colleague of Michael's at WRC and worked for Turner Sports and Speed Channel as well, joined the program as a substitute host in 2004 and became Michael's co-host in 2006.



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