Jim Rome Is Burning
Jim Rome Is Burning | |
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Starring | Jim Rome |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 1,038 |
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Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
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Original network | ESPN and ESPN2 |
Original release | May 6, 2003 – January 27, 2012 |
Jim Rome Is Burning (originally titled Rome Is Burning and often abbreviated as JRIB) is a sports conversation and opinion show hosted by Jim Rome. Debuting on May 6, 2003 as Rome Is Burning, it was originally a weekly show in primetime at 7:00 PM ET on Tuesday nights on ESPN. After a short hiatus in 2004, it returned with a new name, Jim Rome Is Burning, and a late-night Thursday timeslot. In February 2005, JRIB became a daily program airing each afternoon at 4:30 PM in between NFL Live and Around the Horn. After ESPN expanded NFL Live to sixty minutes, JRIB moved to ESPN2 as part of its new afternoon lineup on September 12, 2011. It was produced by Mandt Bros. Productions in association with ESPN Original Entertainment and taped in Los Angeles as opposed to ESPN's Bristol, Connecticut headquarters. This was due to his daily radio commitment.
The show ended on January 27, 2012 with the announcement that Rome had agreed to a contract with CBS, CBS Sports Network, and Showtime. Outside of some 4:3 non-essential game footage camera angles used in play analysis during NFL Matchup, Rome is Burning was the final program in the ESPN family of networks outside ESPN Classic to be produced in standard definition and never upgraded to high definition.
Segments
- Rome Is Burning: Rome gave takes on four or five of the top sports-related stories of the day and always opened with the statement "Here's what I am burning on."
- Alone with Rome: Interview segment with current and former athletes, coaches, sports writers/columnists, and celebrities.
- The Forum: Rome was joined by a reporter, sports figure, or entertainer, usually for an entire week, to discuss various sports topics. Until 2011 there were usually two panelists joining Rome for The Forum.
- Correspondents: Generally, a player gave a tour of one of their team's sports facilities or took Rome and the TV audience through a normal day in the life of a sports athlete. The correspondents included David Wright, Nick Swisher, Tywon Lawson, Tony Gonzalez, Delonte West and Donté Stallworth. For special occasions such as the NFL Draft, there was a group of correspondents. The players who appeared as correspondents were said to attain good "JRIB karma" afterwards.
- Final Burn: The last segment of the show, in which Rome gave one or two final takes. He then thanked the show's guests and signed off with "I will see you next time. I am out."
These segments almost always ran in the above order, with Correspondents pieces about once per week. On rare occasions, if the Forum guest was late to the studio or the remote location, that segment would air after the Forum. On other occasions, the segments were in a different order by design. A show might end with a Correspondents piece instead of a Final Burn.
- U Smack 2 (formerly known as Smack Back): Rome responded to phone calls and e-mails. Discontinued in late 2005.
Contributors
These were guests to the program who appeared occasionally. Guest hosts and forum guests usually served that role for a full calendar week.
Forum guests
- Eric Adelson: ESPN contributor
- Nick Bakay: actor, writer, and television producer; ESPN contributor
- Marcos Breton: The Sacramento Bee
- Bryan Burwell: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Nick Canepa: The San Diego Union-Tribune
- Jeff Cesario: Sportalicious.com
- Jeffri Chadiha: ESPN.com
- Curtis Conway: former NFL wide receiver
- Josh Elliott: former SportsCenter anchor and ESPN reporter (now with Good Morning America)
- Ashley Fox: The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Kevin Frazier: former Entertainment Tonight co-host and SportsCenter anchor (now with Insider and Fox College Football coverage)
- Tom Friend: ESPN The Magazine
- Doug Gottlieb: host of The Pulse on ESPN Radio
- Seth Greenberg: Virginia Tech Hokies basketball head coach
- Kevin Hench: Foxsports.com
- Jon Heyman: Newsday, Sports Illustrated
- Jemele Hill: ESPN.com Page2
- Denny Hocking: former MLB outfielder
- Michael Holley: author; radio host; former Around the Horn panelist
- John Ireland, ESPN Radio
- Scoop Jackson: ESPN.com Page2
- Seth Joyner: former NFL linebacker
- Mark Kriegel: FoxSports.com
- Erik Kuselias: ESPN Radio host & Host of Fantasy Football Now, one of the hosts of College Football Live
- Jim Lampley: HBO World Championship Boxing commentator
- Roger Lodge: Blind Date host; actor
- Chris Mannix: Sports Illustrated
- Eamon McAnaney: SportsNet New York contributor
- Patrick McEnroe: ESPN tennis analyst; CBS U.S. Open correspondent
- Steve Moore: ESPN Radio
- Terence Moore: AOL FanHouse
- Eric Neel: ESPN.com Page2
- Amy K. Nelson: ESPN.com
- Petros Papadakis: KLAC radio host; FSN college football analyst; Pros vs Joes host
- Shaun Powell: NBCSports.com
- Ray Ratto: San Francisco Chronicle
- Drew Sharp: Detroit Free Press
- Dan Shaughnessy: The Boston Globe
- Andrew Siciliano: FSN Final Score anchor
- Bill Simmons: ESPN The Magazine's "The Sports Guy"; ESPN.com Page2
- Randy Sklar: Cheap Seats co-host
- Jason Smith: host of AllNight with Jason Smith on ESPN Radio
- Matt "Money" Smith: Los Angeles Lakers pre- and post-game host
- Rick Telander: Chicago Sun-Times
- Vincent Thomas: SLAM Magazine
- Ross Tucker: SI.com
- Kyle Turley: NFL offensive lineman
- Mark Whicker: The Orange County Register
- Ralph Wiley: Former sports journalist (deceased)
- Mike Wise: The Washington Post
- Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
- Todd Zeile: former MLB third baseman and first baseman
Substitute hosts
- Bonnie Bernstein: substitute host for NFL Live, Outside the Lines and ESPN First Take in addition to JRIB
- Adam Carolla: comedian and former host of Comedy Central's The Man Show
- Josh Elliott: SportsCenter anchor; ESPN reporter
- Dwight Freeney: current NFL player for the Indianapolis Colts
- Doug Gottlieb: College GameNight analyst
- Jim Gray: ESPN and ABC NBA reporter
- Jeffri Chadiha: ESPN.com
- Jemele Hill: ESPN.com Page2
- Keyshawn Johnson: ESPN NFL analyst
- Erik Kuselias: Guest Co-host for Mike and Mike in the Morning, Host of Fantasy Football Now on ESPN.com
- Patrick McEnroe: ESPN Tennis analyst; CBS U.S. Open correspondent
- Lisa Salters: ESPN NBA and ABC Saturday Night Football reporter
- Marcellus Wiley: ESPN NFL analyst and former Dallas Cowboys player
- Mark Schlereth: ESPN NFL analyst
- Michael Smith: ESPN and ESPN.com NFL reporter and analyst; Around the Horn panelist
- Stephen A. Smith: NBA Shootaround analyst; The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Jason Whitlock: formerly of ESPN.com Page2; now with FOXSports.com