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Sports Unlimited | |
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Genre | Sports Documentary |
Created by | ABS-CBN Corporation |
Developed by | ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs |
Written by | Jake Aspiras |
Directed by | JV Noriega |
Presented by | Dyan Castillejo |
Country of origin | Philippines |
Original languages | Filipino English |
No. of episodes | 1,173 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Jonas Liwag |
Editors | Ramoncito Baltazar Walter Soriaga |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ABS-CBN |
Release | June 14, 1997 – February 7, 2015 |
Release | February 12, 2015 – April 30, 2020 |
Sports Unlimited (now Sports U ) is a Philippine sports docu-News magazine program broadcast by ABS-CBN, hosted by Dyan Castillejo. The program features different kinds of sports, as well as ordinary and prominent sports figures. It is the longest-running sports program in the Philippines and in Asia.
Sports Unlimited originally aired on ABS-CBN every Saturday nights from June 14, 1997 to February 7, 2015. Replay telecasts also aired on S+A every Sunday at 6:30 PM, and on ANC every Sunday at 11:30 PM. It also airs worldwide via TFC.
On February 12, 2015, the program is reformatted as Sports U, and originally aired on ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Gold afternoon block replacing the Thursday timeslot of TNT: Tapatan ni Tunying. On December 10, 2015, the program moved to late-nights and currently airs every Thursday right after Bandila . ANC and S+A (along with early broadcast from DZMM TeleRadyo) retain their simulcast.
Sports Unlimited is a sports program that was every aired Saturdays on ABS-CBN since 1997.
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