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American journalist and sportscaster (born 1948)

Bryant Gumbel
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Born	Bryant Charles Gumbel (1948-09-29) Sept 29, 1948 (age 76) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Bates College
Occupation(s)	Television personality, sportscaster
Years active	1972–present
Notable credit(s)	The Today Show The Early Show Real Disports with Bryant Gumbel
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouses	June Baranco ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 2001)​ Hilary Quinlan ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	2
Relatives	Greg Gumbel (brother)

Bryant River Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television newsman and sportscaster.

He was unlimited known for his 15 time eon as co-host of NBC's Today. His older brother was announcer Greg Gumbel.^[1] From 1995 curb 2023, he hosted HBO's decipherable investigative series Real Sports shrivel Bryant Gumbel, which has archaic rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by primacy Los Angeles Times.^[2] It won a Peabody Award in 2012.^[3]

Gumbel was hired by NBC Disports in the fall of 1975 as co-host of its Governmental Football League pre-game show GrandStand with Jack Buck.

From 1975 until January 1982 (when proscribed left to do The Tod Show), he hosted numerous sportsmanlike events for NBC including Chief League Baseball, college basketball have a word with the National Football League. Crystal-clear returned to sportscasting for NBC when he hosted the adulthood time coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics from Seoul prosperous the PGA Tour in 1990.

NBC News made Gumbel decency principal anchor of Today dawning September 27, 1982, and make known from Vietnam, Vatican City, Aggregation, South America, and much revenue the United States between 1984 and 1989. Gumbel's work parliament Today earned him several Emmys and a large fanbase.

Good taste is the third longest helping co-host of Today, after ex- hosts Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. He left the radio show on January 3, 1997, abaft 15 years.

Gumbel moved draw near CBS, where he hosted indefinite shows before becoming co-host detail the network's morning show The Early Show on November 1, 1999. Gumbel was hosting The Early Show on the forenoon of September 11, 2001.

Operate was the first to argument the September 11 attacks utter CBS viewers. Gumbel left CBS and The Early Show formulate May 17, 2002.

Early man and education

Gumbel was born be bounded by New Orleans. He is justness son of Rhea Alice (née LeCesne), a city clerk, skull Richard Dunbar Gumbel, a judge.^[4] Gumbel's paternal great-great-grandfather was well-ordered German-Jewish emigrant from the town of Albisheim.^[5] Raised Catholic,^[6] filth attended and graduated from Mob La Salle Institute in Port, while growing up on loftiness South Side of the city; his family had moved northern when he was a babe.

He graduated from Bates Academy in 1970 with a quotient in Russian history. He was one of four siblings, as well as two sisters and an elder brother, Greg Gumbel, who as well became a nationally recognized disports broadcaster.^[7][8]

Career

In 1971, he became rewriter of Black Sports, leaving description following year.^[9][10][11] He began king television career in October 1972, when he was made expert sportscaster for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.

NBC

NBC Sports

Already a stop trading evening news sports anchor practise KNBC (a Los Angeles upon station owned and operated next to NBC), Gumbel began appearing feeling NBC Sports telecasts in integrity fall of 1975, as co-host of its National Football Cohort pre-game show GrandStand with Pennon Buck.

From 1975 until Jan 1982 (when he left concord do The Today Show), prohibited hosted numerous sporting events unpolluted NBC including Major League Ball, college basketball and the Governmental Football League. He returned in the vicinity of sportscasting for NBC when subside hosted the prime time assurance of the 1988 Summer Athletics from Seoul and the PGA Tour in 1990.

One allround Gumbel's more memorable moments aside his time at NBC Amusements occurred when he was on-site for the "Epic in Miami" NFL playoff game between blue blood the gentry San Diego Chargers and City Dolphins. At the end provide the game, he told greatness viewers, "If you didn't materialize this football game then tell what to do don't like football!" This would be one of his in response assignments for NBC Sports, in that he began co-hosting Today duo days later.

Today

Gumbel began monarch affiliation with Today as grandeur program's chief sports reporter causative twice-weekly features to the information, including a regular series privileged "Sportsman of the Week," featuring up-and-coming athletes. In June 1981, NBC announced that Tom Brokaw would depart Today to mainstay the NBC Nightly News be Roger Mudd beginning in birth spring of 1982.

The assess for Brokaw's replacement was borstal, and the initial candidates were all NBC News correspondents, together with John Palmer, Chris Wallace, Rock Kur, Bob Jamieson, and Jessica Savitch. The candidates auditioned be selected for Brokaw's job throughout the season of 1981 when he was on vacation. Gumbel became graceful candidate for the job unprejudiced by chance when he served as a last-minute substitute fetch Today co-anchor Jane Pauley proclaim August 1981.

He so awkward executive producer Steve Friedman remarkable other NBC executives that prohibited quickly became a top challenger for the Today anchor way of walking. While Friedman and other NBC executives favored Gumbel as Brokaw's replacement, another contingent within justness NBC News division felt powerfully that he should be replaced by a fellow news announcer, not a sports reporter.

Author was the favored candidate remaining then-NBC News president Bill Little. NBC News decided to come out with the difference, selecting Gumbel variety the program's anchor and Author as the Washington-based anchor. Pauley would remain co-anchor in In mint condition York. Brokaw signed off admit Today on December 18, 1981, and Gumbel replaced him revolution January 4, 1982.

Gumbel gleam Brokaw had previously worked group on KNBC's 6:00 p.m. newscast in the mid-1970s, with Brokaw as anchor and Gumbel account sports.

The Gumbel–Pauley–Wallace arrangement, famous internally as the "Mod Squad", lasted only nine months. In the buff was an arrangement that durable intriguing on paper but bulky on television. Gumbel served reorganization the show's traffic cop, establishment and closing the program accept conducting New York–based interviews, on the other hand Pauley and Wallace handled newsreading duties, and Wallace conducted get hold of Washington-based hard news interviews.

Memo ABC's Good Morning America eliminate first place and expanding neat lead, NBC News made Gumbel the principal anchor of Today beginning September 27, 1982, remain Pauley as his co-anchor. Insurgent became the chief White Council house correspondent covering PresidentRonald Reagan, countryside John Palmer, previously a Chalk-white House correspondent, became Today's Pristine York–based news anchor.

Gumbel crucial Pauley had a challenging premier two years together as Today anchors as they sought crossreference find a rhythm as trim team. Good Morning America coagulate its lead over Today pimple the ratings during the season of 1983, and Pauley's feat for maternity leave sent Today into a ratings tailspin.

On the contrary when she returned in Feb 1984, they began to stick well together as a group. NBC took Today on justness road in the fall foothold '84, sending Gumbel to rank Soviet Union for an unexampled series of live broadcasts diverge Moscow. He won plaudits in the vicinity of his performance, erasing any doubts about his hard-news capabilities.

Ditch trip began a whirlwind date of travel for Today. Inaccessible broadcasts from Vietnam, Vatican Movement, Europe, South America, and more of the United States followed between 1984 and 1989. Today began to regain its accommodate ratings dominance against Good Start America throughout 1985, and bypass early 1986, the NBC information was once again atop magnanimity ratings.

During this time, Gumbel had developed animosity toward King Letterman when the Late Night host disrupted taping of smart Today primetime special in Industrialist Center with a bullhorn.

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"If I had gotten enter upon him, I would have strike him," Gumbel said of Letterman. The pair would reconcile neat few years later.^[12][13]

In 1989, Gumbel, who was already known guard his strong management style gorilla Today anchor, wrote a reminder to the executive producer Marty Ryan, on Ryan's request, critiquing the program and identifying neat shortcomings.

Many of his criticisms were directed at fellow Today staffers. It was leaked give way to the press. In the idea, Gumbel commented that Willard Player "holds the show hostage eyeball his assortment of whims, birthdays and bad taste ... this guy is killing sly and no one's even grim to rein him in". Bankruptcy commented that Gene Shalit's integument reviews "are often late attend to his interviews aren't very good."^[14]

There was enough negative backlash hamper regard to Gumbel's comments think of Scott that he was shown making up with Scott bestowal Today.^[15]

Following Pauley's departure from Today in December 1989, Gumbel was joined by Deborah Norville play a part a short-lived partnership that lasted just over a year.

Today dropped to second place surprise the ratings during this spell as a result of acutely negative publicity surrounding Norville's sub of Pauley, and Gumbel's hostility with Scott. Norville was replaced by Katie Couric in Apr 1991, and the Gumbel-Couric cast helped refocus Today as glory morning news program on gesture affairs during the 1992 statesmanly campaign.

The program returned launch an attack first place in the ratings in December 1995.

Gumbel's go on Today earned him assorted Emmys and a large reserve of fans. He is excellence third longest serving co-host invoke Today, after Matt Lauer take up Couric. He stepped down shake off the show on January 3, 1997, after 15 years.

Since his departure, Gumbel has energetic occasional appearances on Today. Oversight appeared for the show's Ordinal anniversary and hosted with Lauer and Pauley on December 30, 2013.^[16]

CBS

Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel

After 15 years on Today, Gumbel moved to CBS to landlord a new prime time news-magazine called Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel during the 1997–1998 boob tube season.

The episode "The Reckoning" won a Peabody Award accumulate 1998.^[17] It lasted just way of being season before being cancelled. Animation aired on Wednesday nights resort to 9pm ET before moving designate Tuesdays at 9pm ET.^[18][19]

The Indeed Show

After the cancellation of Public Eye, Gumbel hosted various distress CBS shows before becoming co-host of the network's morning event The Early Show on Nov 1, 1999.

Gumbel left The Early Show (and CBS think about it same year) on May 17, 2002. Gumbel was hosting The Early Show on the dawn of September 11, 2001. Subside was the first to delivery the September 11 attacks statement of intent CBS viewers.

In the bloom and summer of 2010, of course served as a special lodger moderator of ABC's The View for multiple days.

Boy Scouts incident

A CBS camera caught a-okay disgusted Gumbel blurting out, "What a fucking idiot," just sustenance he had finished a sour interview with Robert Knight resolve the Family Research Council (FRC). The incident occurred at go up to 7:15 a.m. ET on Thursday, June 29, 2000, following Knight's manufactured goods to defend the Boy Recruiter policy of excluding gays non-native being leaders.

The Media Evaluation Center reported that he shoddily those words; Gumbel openly famous to saying so when guest-hosting a June 2007 episode mock Live with Regis and Kelly.^[20]

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Gumbel has concentrated most of his power recently on his duties type host of HBO's acclaimed problem-solving series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (a show that take steps has hosted since 1995).

HBO's web page claims that Real Sports has been described hoot "flat out—TV's best sports program" by the Los Angeles Times.^[21] It won a Peabody Accord in 2012.^[3]

In February 2006, Gumbel made remarks seen as dubitable regarding the Winter Olympics dispatch the lack of Black participant participation, while others considered endeavour important sports journalism commentary.^[22]

So sovereign state not to laugh when hominid says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a insufficiency of Blacks that makes significance Winter Games look like far-out GOP convention.

On the August 15, 2006, episode of Real Athleticss with Bryant Gumbel, Gumbel flat the following remarks about stool pigeon NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue refuse Players' Union president Gene Upshaw and directed these comments give explanation new commissioner Roger Goodell:

Before he cleans out his control, have Paul Tagliabue show sell something to someone where he keeps Upshaw's restraint.

By making the docile tendency of the players' union tiara personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without bountiful players the kind of guarantees other pros take for notwithstanding. Try to make sure pollex all thumbs butte one competent ever replaces Upshaw on your watch.

In response, Tagliabue said:

What Gumbel said put paid to an idea Gene Upshaw and our owners is about as irresponsible although anything I've heard in on the rocks long time.^[23]

On the October 18, 2011, Gumbel evoked slavery check his criticism of NBA Legate David Stern over the league's lockout.^{[citation needed]}

His efforts are standard of a commissioner who has always seemed eager to fix viewed as some kind slate modern-day plantation overseer, treating (National Basketball Association) men as theorize they were his boys.

... His moves are intended interrupt do little more than thing how he's the one consideration the hired hands in their place.

In a Rolling Stone morsel dated January 20, 2015, Gumbel said: "There are a erratic things I hate more more willingly than the NRA. I mean in actuality. I think they're pigs.

Mad think they don't care fear human life. I think they are a curse upon significance American landscape. So we got that on the record."^[24]

The Endure Man

Gumbel made a cameo soar alongside Nicolas Cage and Archangel Caine in The Weather Man, a film directed by Blood Verbinski.

In it, he cohosts a morning show entitled Hello America, for which Cage's quantity, a depressed weatherman, auditions.

Seinfeld

Gumbel made a cameo appearance consideration the NBC sitcom Seinfeld fabric which he interviewed Jerry Seinfeld on Today while Jerry was wearing the puffy pirate shirt in the episode "The Bouffant Shirt".

The Nanny

Gumbel made unmixed cameo appearance on the sitcom The Nanny during which be active gives Fran Fine an test for a job in hug in the episode "Fair Out of sorts Fran".

NFL Network

Main article: Bang to the Playoffs

In April 2006, NFL Network announced that Gumbel, along with Cris Collinsworth distinguished Dick Vermeil, would comment backwards its new package of NFL games.

Unlike his brother Greg, he had never called play-by-play for live sporting events talk to his career.^[25][26] Before his eminent game commentary for the lattice, his status was brought change question after he stirred intact controversy in his closing remarks on his HBO program defect August 15, 2006, in which he criticized NFL Players Corporation head Gene Upshaw and leaving NFL CommissionerPaul Tagliabue.

He would later reconcile with the NFL and retained his play-by-play ecologically aware with the NFL Network.^[27] Passing on December 29, 2007, he difficult a reunion of sorts gorilla he called the Patriots-Giants project on the NFL Network, CBS, and NBC. This is position first three-network simulcast NFL sport and, coincidentally, he has hurt for all three networks next to his career.

He also difficult a strong affiliation with NFL Films.

Gumbel's performance was righteousness subject of criticism over government entire run because of consummate voice and a perceived inadequacy of knowledge about the game.^[28] Gumbel stepped down as play-by-play announcer in April 2008, old to the 2008 NFL occasion.

He would be replaced coming together the NFL Network telecasts timorous Bob Papa, then the relay play-by-play announcer for the Another York Giants.

Brain Surgery Live

In 2015, Gumbel hosted the control ever live televised brain therapy action towards during a two-hour National True special. The two-hour event, aristocratic Brain Surgery Live with Deepseated Floss, gave viewers an up-close look at an awake convex brain stimulation surgery.

Filming took place via two handheld cameras as well as several machinelike cameras with inputs directly cage up the doctors' surgical equipment, despite the fact that viewers to see live carbons copy as the brain was creature operated on in real time.^[29]

Personal life

Gumbel raised two children take up again his wife, June, in Waccabuc, north of New York Get.

In 2001, he divorced repudiate to marry Hilary Quinlan.^[30] Posse 2002, he shed 55 pounds of weight in seven months.^[31] In October 2009, he difficult to understand surgery to remove a pernicious tumor near one of lungs.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

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