Sports Night came on the air in the 90's, and only lasted two seasons, but that was plenty enough time to make an impact.
When I started at my very first TV station in Orlando, I asked our sports director Penn Holderness (a UVA grad with a degree in Philosophy of all things) what TV best conveys what its like to work in a TV newsroom. Without pausing a beat he answered 'Sports Night.' More questions around the newsroom confirmed it showed the practical world of working in TV...
Curiously, the show talks very little about sports...instead it focuses much more on the team putting a show on the air every day. And while conveying the practicality of the TV news world, it sprinkles in some of the best writing on any television show.
The monologue below by William H. Macy about glass tubes is a perfect example, and conveys exactly the kind of impact I want to make in any newsroom I work in.
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