NBA Inside Stuff

NBA Inside Stuff is a television program airing on NBA TV and previously aired on NBC for many years, then on ABC, featuring behind the scenes activities of NBA players. The program also includes features on fitness and fundamentals of basketball. Previously hosted by Ahmad Rashād (and once co-hosted by Julie Moran, and then Willow Bay) and Summer Sanders, the show is now hosted by former NBA star Grant Hill and Kristen Ledlow.

NBA Inside Stuff
Presented byGrant Hill
Kristen Ledlow
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasonsOriginal series: 15
Revival series: 4
No. of episodesN/A (airs weekly)
Production
Running time21–22 minutes (1990-2002)
23-24 minutes (2002-2006)
Release
Original networkNBC (1990-2002)
ABC (2002-2006)
NBA TV (2013-present)
Picture format480i (SDTV/4:3 pillarbox) (1990-2006)
1080i (HDTV) (2013-present)
480i (SDTV/16:9 letterbox) (2013-present)
Original releaseOriginal series:
October 27, 1990 (1990-10-27) – January 15, 2006 (2006-01-15)
Revival series:
November 2, 2013 (2013-11-02) –
February 27, 2016
Chronology
Followed byNBA Access with Ahmad Rashad (2006–2011)
Related showsInside the NBA
Run It Back
External links
NBA.com's Inside Stuff page

Overview

NBA Inside Stuff served as a sort of recap and analysis show reviewing the week's previous games in the NBA, complete with top plays and special moments. The hosts would also interview top NBA players outside of game situations, often discussing issues relevant to them.

The show first aired on October 27, 1990 and ended on January 15, 2006. After a seven-year hiatus, NBA TV brought back Inside Stuff with new hosts and a new look.[1] The revamped show began airing on November 2, 2013 on NBA TV.

Broadcast history

NBA Inside Stuff was usually the bridge program for NBC between TNBC (or, in its first two seasons, its Saturday morning cartoon lineup) and Saturday afternoon programming, usually sports. In the late 1990s, the program received some adaptation in order to meet the FCC's educational and informational requirements. In 2002, ABC took over the show from NBC after the latter network's contract with the NBA as the exclusive network rights-holder had expired.

When it moved to ABC in the fall of 2002, it aired at the tail end of the network's ABC Kids Saturday morning children's programming block, serving as a bridge between that and their afternoon sports programming (occasionally being moved to Sundays during college football season).

For its first two years on ABC, the show suffered from a decline in viewership. When asked why he thought the show had gotten off track, host Ahmad Rashad had said, “because ABC locked us into a timeslot that didn’t fit the content, causing the show to suffer in the ratings.” [2] Many of the 18- to 34-year-old viewers who were drawn to the show on NBC throughout the ’90s failed to follow it to its new home on ABC. In the fall of 2004, as an effort to boost ratings, the show was moved to Sunday afternoons, airing as the lead in to the network's regular lineup of sports programming.

NBA Inside Stuff last aired on January 15, 2006. It was then replaced with the similarly themed NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad (which ran on ABC until 2011). As its name implies, Rashad was the host. Reruns of NBA Inside Stuff were moved at that time to NBA TV.

As previously mentioned, NBA TV announced that after a seven-year hiatus, NBA Inside Stuff would return with Grant Hill and Kristen Ledlow as hosts. The commercial for the then-newly resurrected NBA Inside Stuff later aired on NBA TV.[3]

Hosts

Current hosts

Former hosts
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See also

References
  1. "NBA Inside Stuff is Back With Grant Hill (VIDEO)". SLAM Magazine. October 9, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  2. John Dempsey (August 22, 2004). "'NBA' has new game plan". Variety. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  3. "Inside Stuff returns!". YouTube. NBA/NBA TV. October 9, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
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