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The Blitz (ESPNEWS)
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The Blitz, which debuted on the first day of the 2005 NFL season (September 11, 2005), airs on ESPNEWS on Sundays, from 1:00pm ET to 10:00pm ET.
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This program uses two different formats, as shown below:
When The Blitz debuted in 2005, it originally consisted of scores and highlights of NFL games around the country, along with analysis from Qadry Ismail, Mike Ditka, and Sean Salisbury. The Blitz also had some non-football highlights (such as college basketball, the NBA, and the like) mixed in. The program went off the air the week after the Super Bowl in 2006, and returned on September 10 of that same year. The Blitz would eventually replace the Sunday afternoon and evening editions of "ESPNEWS" (which previously aired on Sundays) from that point on. The Blitz reverted to this format used during the NFL season on September 9, 2007.
On February 18, 2007, The Blitz debuted an alternate program logo, along with a second format that is used all other times (similar to the ones used on the other ESPNEWS programs, such as ESPNEWS Gametime). And with that, it also replaced programming previously aired from 1:00pm to 10:00pm ET (ESPNEWS Day and ESPNEWS Early Evening, which now air on Saturdays only).
Some of the anchors who appear on The Blitz include:
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