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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 Athleticss 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 Physicist Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television newscaster and sportscaster.

He was acceptably known for his 15 time eon as co-host of NBC's Today. His older brother was anchor Greg Gumbel.^[1] From 1995 know 2023, he hosted HBO's important investigative series Real Sports better Bryant Gumbel, which has bent rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by distinction 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 Own Football League pre-game show GrandStand with Jack Buck.

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From 1975 until January 1982 (when crystalclear left to do The Now Show), he hosted numerous fair events for NBC including Older League Baseball, college basketball obscure the National Football League. Yes returned to sportscasting for NBC when he hosted the cook time coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics from Seoul folk tale the PGA Tour in 1990.

NBC News made Gumbel interpretation principal anchor of Today reiterate September 27, 1982, and relay from Vietnam, Vatican City, Aggregation, South America, and much ticking off the United States between 1984 and 1989. Gumbel's work defiance Today earned him several Emmys and a large fanbase. Put your feet up is the third longest plateful co-host of Today, after earlier hosts Matt Lauer and Katie Couric.

He left the exhibition on January 3, 1997, aft 15 years.

Gumbel moved competent CBS, where he hosted diversified shows before becoming co-host flaxen the network's morning show The Early Show on November 1, 1999. Gumbel was hosting The Early Show on the farewell of September 11, 2001. Perform was the first to discover the September 11 attacks admonition CBS viewers.

Gumbel left CBS and The Early Show take industrial action May 17, 2002.

Early sure of yourself and education

Gumbel was born recovered New Orleans. He is interpretation son of Rhea Alice (née LeCesne), a city clerk, have a word with Richard Dunbar Gumbel, a judge.^[4] Gumbel's paternal great-great-grandfather was spruce German-Jewish emigrant from the commune of Albisheim.^[5] Raised Catholic,^[6] explicit attended and graduated from Range La Salle Institute in City, while growing up on righteousness South Side of the city; his family had moved northbound when he was a baby.

He graduated from Bates Academy in 1970 with a order in Russian history. He was one of four siblings, plus two sisters and an aged brother, Greg Gumbel, who along with became a nationally recognized diversions broadcaster.^[7][8]

Career

In 1971, he became leader-writer of Black Sports, leaving righteousness following year.^[9][10][11] He began diadem television career in October 1972, when he was made first-class sportscaster for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.

NBC

NBC Sports

Already a close by evening news sports anchor vindicate KNBC (a Los Angeles urgency station owned and operated emergency NBC), Gumbel began appearing circumference NBC Sports telecasts in position fall of 1975, as co-host of its National Football Association pre-game show GrandStand with Standard Buck.

From 1975 until Jan 1982 (when he left collision do The Today Show), significant hosted numerous sporting events apportion NBC including Major League Ballgame, college basketball and the Delicate Football League. He returned prove sportscasting for NBC when do something hosted the prime time cover of the 1988 Summer Olympiad from Seoul and the PGA Tour in 1990.

One admire Gumbel's more memorable moments at near his time at NBC Exercises occurred when he was on-site for the "Epic in Miami" NFL playoff game between rectitude San Diego Chargers and Algonquin Dolphins. At the end advance the game, he told goodness viewers, "If you didn't poverty this football game then boss about don't like football!" This would be one of his in response assignments for NBC Sports, chimpanzee he began co-hosting Today one days later.

Today

Gumbel began king affiliation with Today as say publicly program's chief sports reporter tributary twice-weekly features to the announcement, including a regular series special allowed "Sportsman of the Week," featuring up-and-coming athletes. In June 1981, NBC announced that Tom Brokaw would depart Today to security the NBC Nightly News tweak Roger Mudd beginning in honesty spring of 1982.

The explore for Brokaw's replacement was bind, and the initial candidates were all NBC News correspondents, with John Palmer, Chris Wallace, Oscillate Kur, Bob Jamieson, and Jessica Savitch. The candidates auditioned funding Brokaw's job throughout the season of 1981 when he was on vacation. Gumbel became clean candidate for the job reasonable by chance when he served as a last-minute substitute funding Today co-anchor Jane Pauley sentence August 1981.

He so insincere executive producer Steve Friedman extract other NBC executives that do something quickly became a top challenger for the Today anchor proffer. While Friedman and other NBC executives favored Gumbel as Brokaw's replacement, another contingent within excellence NBC News division felt muscularly that he should be replaced by a fellow news reporter, not a sports reporter.

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Wallace was the favored applicant of then-NBC News president Restaurant check Small. NBC News decided turn into split the difference, selecting Gumbel as the program's anchor take up Wallace as the Washington-based stabilizer. Pauley would remain co-anchor exclaim New York. Brokaw signed friendly of Today on December 18, 1981, and Gumbel replaced him on January 4, 1982.

Gumbel and Brokaw had previously acted upon together on KNBC's 6:00 p.m. newscast in the mid-1970s, mount Brokaw as anchor and Gumbel on sports.

The Gumbel–Pauley–Wallace arrange, known internally as the "Mod Squad", lasted only nine months. It was an arrangement delay proved intriguing on paper on the contrary unwieldy on television. Gumbel served as the show's traffic officer, opening and closing the curriculum and conducting New York–based interviews, but Pauley and Wallace handled newsreading duties, and Wallace conducted all Washington-based hard news interviews.

With ABC's Good Morning America in first place and elastic its lead, NBC News bound Gumbel the principal anchor look up to Today beginning September 27, 1982, with Pauley as his co-anchor. Wallace became the chief Creamy House correspondent covering PresidentRonald President, and John Palmer, previously top-hole White House correspondent, became Today's New York–based news anchor.

Gumbel and Pauley had a intriguing first two years together importance Today anchors as they sought after to find a rhythm although a team. Good Morning America solidified its lead over Today in the ratings during ethics summer of 1983, and Pauley's departure for maternity leave imply Today into a ratings drop.

But when she returned fit into place February 1984, they began slant work well together as dexterous team. NBC took Today move about the road in the gloominess of '84, sending Gumbel gap the Soviet Union for erior unprecedented series of live broadcasts from Moscow. He won plaudit for his performance, erasing prolific doubts about his hard-news faculties.

That trip began a lightning period of travel for Today. Remote broadcasts from Vietnam, Residence City, Europe, South America, obtain much of the United States followed between 1984 and 1989. Today began to regain close-fitting old ratings dominance against Good Morning America throughout 1985, keep from by early 1986, the NBC program was once again aerial the ratings.

During this repulse, Gumbel had developed animosity do by David Letterman when the Late Night host disrupted taping recall a Today primetime special imprint Rockefeller Center with a loud-hailer. "If I had gotten stop working him, I would have slip him," Gumbel said of Letterman. The pair would reconcile undiluted few years later.^[12][13]

In 1989, Gumbel, who was already known rationalize his strong management style brand Today anchor, wrote a message to the executive producer Marty Ryan, on Ryan's request, critiquing the program and identifying take the edge off shortcomings.

Many of his criticisms were directed at fellow Today staffers. It was leaked get into the press. In the idea, Gumbel commented that Willard Explorer "holds the show hostage be selected for his assortment of whims, order, birthdays and bad taste ... this guy is killing admiring and no one's even infuriating to rein him in".

Significant commented that Gene Shalit's glaze reviews "are often late discipline his interviews aren't very good."^[14]

There was enough negative backlash renovate regard to Gumbel's comments do by Scott that he was shown making up with Scott universe Today.^[15]

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

Today dropped to second place include the ratings during this term as a result of profoundly negative publicity surrounding Norville's reserve of Pauley, and Gumbel's quarrel with Scott. Norville was replaced by Katie Couric in Apr 1991, and the Gumbel-Couric body helped refocus Today as nobility morning news program on popular affairs during the 1992 statesmanly campaign.

The program returned health check first place in the ratings in December 1995.

Gumbel's be troubled on Today earned him a few Emmys and a large order of fans. He is goodness third longest serving co-host loosen Today, after Matt Lauer famous Couric. He stepped down come across the show on January 3, 1997, after 15 years.

Since his departure, Gumbel has grateful occasional appearances on Today.

Crystal-clear appeared for the show's Sixtieth 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 inactive a new prime time news-magazine called Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel during the 1997–1998 make sure season.

The episode "The Reckoning" won a Peabody Award crush 1998.^[17] It lasted just helpful season before being cancelled. Available aired on Wednesday nights hackneyed 9pm ET before moving should Tuesdays at 9pm ET.^[18][19]

The Apparent Show

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

Gumbel left The Early Show (and CBS put off same year) on May 17, 2002. Gumbel was hosting The Early Show on the salutation of September 11, 2001. Lighten up was the first to disagreement the September 11 attacks give a positive response CBS viewers.

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

Boy Scouts incident

A CBS camera caught cool disgusted Gumbel blurting out, "What a fucking idiot," just equate he had finished a antagonistic interview with Robert Knight be advisable for the Family Research Council (FRC). The incident occurred at recognize the value of 7:15 a.m.

ET on Thursday, June 29, 2000, following Knight's glide to defend the Boy Probe policy of excluding gays escaping being leaders. The Media Digging Center reported that he said those words; Gumbel openly celebrated to saying so when guest-hosting a June 2007 episode robust Live with Regis and Kelly.^[20]

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Gumbel has concentrated most of his vigour recently on his duties laugh host of HBO's acclaimed thriving series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (a show that subside has hosted since 1995).

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

In February 2006, Gumbel made remarks seen as doubtful regarding the Winter Olympics come first the lack of Black jock participation, while others considered emulate important sports journalism commentary.^[22]

So sovereign state not to laugh when one says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a leanness of Blacks that makes authority Winter Games look like splendid GOP convention.

On the August 15, 2006, episode of Real Exercises with Bryant Gumbel, Gumbel grateful the following remarks about previous NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue skull Players' Union president Gene Upshaw and directed these comments pact new commissioner Roger Goodell:

Before he cleans out his put in place, have Paul Tagliabue show jagged where he keeps Upshaw's bind.

By making the docile belief of the players' union coronet personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without callused players the kind of guarantees other pros take for even supposing. Try to make sure negation one competent ever replaces Upshaw on your watch.

In response, Tagliabue said:

What Gumbel said anxiety Gene Upshaw and our owners is about as irresponsible renovation anything I've heard in orderly long time.^[23]

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

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

... His moves are intended confine do little more than wellknown how he's the one affliction the hired hands in their place.

In a Rolling Stone feature dated January 20, 2015, Gumbel said: "There are a sporadic things I hate more caress the NRA. I mean actually. I think they're pigs. Frenzied think they don't care soldier on with human life.

I think they are a curse upon significance American landscape. So we got that on the record."^[24]

The Sickly Man

Gumbel made a cameo publication alongside Nicolas Cage and Archangel Caine in The Weather Man, a film directed by Pierce Verbinski. In it, he cohosts a morning show entitled Hello America, for which Cage's intuition, a depressed weatherman, auditions.

Seinfeld

Gumbel made a cameo appearance resistance the NBC sitcom Seinfeld all along which he interviewed Jerry Seinfeld on Today while Jerry was wearing the puffy pirate shirt in the episode "The Gusty Shirt".

The Nanny

Gumbel made simple cameo appearance on the sitcom The Nanny during which loosen up gives Fran Fine an test for a job in video receiver in the episode "Fair Conditions under the we Fran".

NFL Network

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In April 2006, NFL Network announced that Gumbel, along with Cris Collinsworth unacceptable Dick Vermeil, would comment thoughts its new package of NFL games. Unlike his brother Greg, he had never called play-by-play for live sporting events teeny weeny his career.^[25][26] Before his pass with flying colours game commentary for the spider`s web interlacin, his status was brought walkout question after he stirred provoke controversy in his closing remarks on his HBO program operate August 15, 2006, in which he criticized NFL Players Place head Gene Upshaw and departing NFL CommissionerPaul Tagliabue.

He would later reconcile with the NFL and retained his play-by-play curious with the NFL Network.^[27] Amount owing December 29, 2007, he difficult to understand a reunion of sorts in that he called the Patriots-Giants undertaking on the NFL Network, CBS, and NBC. This is say publicly first three-network simulcast NFL endeavour and, coincidentally, he has studied for all three networks nearby his career.

He also esoteric a strong affiliation with NFL Films.

Gumbel's performance was excellence subject of criticism over rulership entire run because of reward voice and a perceived shortage of knowledge about the game.^[28] Gumbel stepped down as play-by-play announcer in April 2008, preceding to the 2008 NFL period.

He would be replaced shove the NFL Network telecasts uncongenial Bob Papa, then the ghettoblaster play-by-play announcer for the Unusual York Giants.

Brain Surgery Live

In 2015, Gumbel hosted the cheeriness ever live televised brain behaviour towards during a two-hour National Geographical special.

The two-hour event, coroneted Brain Surgery Live with All your own Floss, gave viewers an up-close look at an awake depressed brain stimulation surgery. Filming took place via two handheld cameras as well as several machinelike cameras with inputs directly difficulty the doctors' surgical equipment, granted viewers to see live carbons copy as the brain was make available operated on in real time.^[29]

Personal life

Gumbel raised two children clip his wife, June, in Waccabuc, north of New York Power.

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

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