How Many Television Sport Anchors Can You Name in Your Market?

I think I can name six… but three of those work across the room from me. I think the other three are still doing it but I honestly don’t know.

 

DC used to have huge local-TV sports personalities but now has none. At least two of the stations have deemphasized sports to the point of nothingness. The other two have sports anchors listed on their "personalities" page but I've never heard of them.

 

None. I know a face or two but no names. When I was more active around here I knew the anchors, backups and videographers. Rarely watch local news anymore, though.

 

Curt Sandoval has been a sports anchor at ABC-7 in SoCal for at least 30 years, although the most recent edition of his face only has about 5 years of experience.

 

I think Rob Fukuzaki has been there 20+ years too.

 

I somehow got four of five in the NYC area:

Bruce Beck (DOUBLE YOUUUUUU NNNNNNBC)
Otis Livingston (CBS)
Sam Ryan (ABC)
Tina Cervasio (Fox)

But in keeping with the theme of the thread, I thought Andy Adler was still at WPIX. Turns out she's moved to Dallas and is with the CBS affiliate as its pre- and postgame Cowboys anchor. Had no idea. Imagine that 20-30 years ago. Marc Malusis, who was doing SNY last I remembered, replaced her. Has always been a solid enough mix of a good-natured homer with good chops, but he also augments his work by hosting a daily gambling show on something called the Bettor Network and a lot of his pics on Twitter are of him at the Fanduel Sportsbook at the Meadowlands. Imagine THAT 20-30 years ago.

Bruce & Otis were at the Giants-Vikings game in Minnesota this week. I don't think Sam & Tina travel a lot, but I could be wrong. They're at all the big events, but I'd say Bruce is the only one who gets out to non-big games and secondary sports. He's also the only one I follow on Twitter, so it's quite possible I'm missing the others in action. Like everyone else here, I don't watch nearly as much local newscasts as, again, 20-30 years ago. I think CBS, Fox & WPIX all have Sunday night shows, but I only watch Bruce's on NBC, largely b/c I got into the habit of it after SNF.

 

The last one I remember from Eugene is Steven Nelson, now on the MLB Network. We don't get Portland stations here on my cable system.

 

A few thoughts on that article...

1) Jeez, it's been a long time since I've actually seen Fred Roggin. I would not have recognized him. (Not that he looks bad -- I just realize my view of him is frozen in the mid-80s.)

2) I think his view of how other stations do sports is outdated by a good 20+ years. I don't think anyone is doing scores and highlights now. He was certainly on the front end of that change, though.

3) One thing that article doesn't mention that he deserves credit for: Roggin was largely the originator of the "viral video." He had a segment where he would run funny home videos that people would send in to him. "America's Funniest Home Videos" then lifted the idea for a weekly show, and that eventually begat Twitter/Instagram/TikTok content. The first time I ever saw a dad get whacked in the nuts with a wiffle ball bat was on Roggin's show.

 

Grew up on Roggin.

42 years is a long time.

 

Roggin, Hill, Nahan, Olbermann ... even Scott St. James.

I won 2 tickets to a Kings game after answering Scott's nightly trivia question (who snapped the Lakers' 33-game win streak in '71?)

Tickets were for the Blackhawks game. Kings scored a minute into the game. Blackhawks won 6 to 3 or 4.