Jim Gray joined GOLF CHANNEL in 2009 as a Golf in America correspondent and reporter for Live From telecasts. He has worked with CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN, ABC Sports, Showtime, and Westwood One Radio.
His career highlights include broadcast coverage of eight Olympic Games, 22 NFL Super Bowls, nine MLB World Series, 18 NBA Finals, 12 NCAA Final Fours, 19 Masters Golf Tournaments, and more than 400 World Championship Boxing matches. Gray has also broadcast on numerous occasions the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup, NBA and MLB All-Star Games, National Football League AFC and NFC Championship Games, and Major League Baseball American and National League Championship Series Games, the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange Bowls.
Throughout his career, Gray has earned numerous awards and honors. He has won 11 national Emmy Awards for journalism and reporting. Gray was named Sportscaster of the Year in 1998 and 1999 as “Sports Reporter of the Year” by his member peers of the American Sportscasters Association. In 1997, Jim won the prestigious “Broadcast of the Year Award” presented by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association for his interview with Mike Tyson following “Tyson vs. Holyfield II.” Twelve times Gray has been named Sports Reporter of the Year by the USA Today, and that same publication in April 2005 named Gray the country’s best sports reporter of the past quarter century. The late author David Halberstam named Gray one of the 50 best sportscasters ever.
A graduated from the University of Colorado in 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Journalism. In 2004, Gray was inducted into the Colorado Hall of Excellence In March 2005 Jim was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. Gray is one of a very few sportscasters who has been honored with this prestigious award.
Throughout his adult life, Jim has been involved in numerous charities around the country having served countless benefits as the master of ceremonies and devoting his time and energy to many philanthropic endeavors including The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Special Olympics, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Jim and his wife Frann, established the Jim Gray Scholarship Fund at the University of Colorado which grants scholarships at the University’s School of Journalism to top students, as well as to students who are the first in their family to attend a college or university. Jim and Frann reside in Los Angeles.
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