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We previously noted that ESPN had hired Hannah Storm to serve as a morning SportsCenter anchor, and now the Worldwide Leader has offered more details.

ESPN has decided to cease its longstanding practice of re-running the previous night's SportsCenter all morning long and will now instead offer live broadcasts from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Starting August 11 (which is the first Monday of the Summer Olympics), SportsCenter will be live throughout the morning. The nine-hour SportsCenter block will feature three teams of two anchors, with the early shows giving more of the scores and highlights and the later shows giving more analysis and commentary, plus whatever news has broken during the morning.

As a practical matter, what this means is that ESPN realizes that the reality of today's media environment is that people who want to know what happened in last night's game already know long before SportsCenter has been shown for the seventh time.

ESPN's new weekday program schedule is after the jump.

Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated reports that ESPN has hired Hannah Storm as a new SportsCenter anchor, signaling that the Worldwide Leader is revamping the image of the show that has defined the network for nearly three decades.

According to Deitsch, Storm will anchor a morning version of SportsCenter, and ESPN will bolster its morning broadcasts with original content, rather than re-running the late night SportsCenter all morning long, as it does now.

Although ESPN hasn't confirmed the move and no details are available of Storm's SportsCenter, it would seem likely that the new SportsCenter will have more of a "morning show" feel, and ESPNews will be the go-to place for people who turn on the TV in the morning wanting the basic scores and highlights from the night before.

The challenge for ESPN will be to find a way to prevent the Storm-led SportsCenter from being redundant with ESPN2's morning lineup, a simulcast of the radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning from 6 to 10 a.m., followed by ESPN First Take.

Storm, who most recently anchored the CBS Early Show, has previously covered sports for CNN and NBC.