Sports Plus Network

Sports Plus Network was a service run by SportsChannel in 1988-1993 that filled the airtime when SportsChannel was not on the air. It was an "automated" service that featured sports news and scores displayed using NAPLPS graphics.

The service appears to have had some similarity to teletext, but the major difference was that it was not interactive, stories stay on screen for a few seconds and it moves to the next screen.

According to the ticker that scrolled at the bottom of the screen, the service was a joint venture by SportsChannel, Tribune Media Services, and the Associated Press.

In early 1991, the graphics used were updated.

The channel could sometimes be seen on a monitor in the newsroom on the set of Murphy Brown.

gollark: The main issue is that the dictator does not have much of an incentive to be good once they're in power. At least in modern democracies you have a *bit*.
gollark: And that would probably result in the testing authority being de facto ruler.
gollark: You can't, I think, test in a way which could not be faked by a not-good dictator.
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gollark: The issues of picking an initial dictator, and passing it on to the next person, will run into similar issues to modern democracy: you're optimizing for someone who's convincing and sounds good and not necessarily someone who *is*.


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