Bryant Gumbel

Over a television career that spanned more than half a century, Bryant Gumbel became one of television’s most visible and accomplished broadcasters. After beginning his television career in 1972 at KNBC in Los Angeles, Gumbel moved on to NBC Sports where he worked from the fall of 1975 until the winter of 1982. During that time, he served as the host of virtually all of NBC’s primary sports programs and championship events, including major league baseball, for which he hosted the World Series for seven years; the National Football League, for which he hosted four Super Bowls; and the NCAA basketball championships, for which he hosted five championships. In 1982, Gumbel was named as the host of NBC’s flagship TODAY program and went on to host that show for 15 years, longer than anyone in the program’s history. From 1995 until the end of 2023, Gumbel hosted REALSPORTS with Bryant Gumbel for HBO, a monthly, magazine-style program that explored issues, controversies, and personalities in the world of sports, raising the bar for sports journalism and winning more than 30 Sports Emmy Awards.