Remembering ESPN Hot Summer Nights Programming and Living Our Own Hot Summer

Back in the early ’90s, ESPN used to run a Tuesday-night lineup in the summer called Hot Summer Nights. It had its own graphics – pretty heavily ’80s influenced in colors and aesthetic with a catchy jingle and a sexy female voice that just sang, “Hot, h- h- hot summer nights.”

The programming would include (and then rerun) episodes of the Surfer Magazine TV show, which was produced by the late Sonny Miller, a groundbreaking surfer/filmmaker.