The Set
The original set was in the same Atlantic Video complex as the set for Pardon the Interruption. It featured the host's desk with the point triggers and mute buttons, opposite of four screens of the panelists with their score under them and the mute sign above them. Behind the host's desk was a map of the contiguous United States of America with the cities the sportswriters on the show appear from. The map used to have newspapers the sports writers were affiliated with. They were the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning News and the Boston Globe. The reason for this was that the original focus of the show was upon the regional bias of the writers, who were specifically chosen to represent their particular U.S. time zone, although that aspect of the show was eventually phased out.
On September 27, 2010, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption began broadcasting in high definition and moved from the Atlantic Video complex to facilities in the ABC News Washington bureau, where high definition sets were built for both shows.
Each panelist appears either within the offices of their respective newspaper, in front of a screen representing the city they're located in, or in another studio.
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