Gayle Gardner Biography
Gayle Gardner is an American sportscaster who worked for ESPN and NBC Sports beginning in 1987 until 1993. She is considered a pioneer in sports broadcasting, having been the first female sports anchor to appear weekly on a major network.
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Gardner was born in 1950.
Gardner Career
Gardner after being hired by ESPN in 1983, Gardner served as a sportscaster anchor for the three years. She then worked for NBC from 1987 to 1993. Among the assignments that she undertook included anchoring NBC’s New Year’s Day college football bowl game coverage, NFL Live, Major League Baseball: An Inside Look, NBC’s 1988 and 1992 summer Olympics coverage, the French Open, Wimbledon and NBC’s Prudential Sports Updates”.
In January 1989, She was a member of the NBC broadcast team for Super Bowl XXIII (San Francisco vs. Cincinnati). On August 3, 1993, Gardner became the first woman to televised play-by-play of a baseball game when she called the action of a game between the Colorado Rockies and the Cincinnati Reds.
Gardner later worked on Food Network before writing a screenplay. She spent three years on the Food Network. In 2004 ( to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sportscenter), She returned to anchor a special ”old school” edition of Sportscenter alongside Stuart Scott.
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ESPN hired Gardner in 1983 to serve as an anchor for three years on Sportscenter. She worked for three years.
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Gayle Gardner Pioneered
She began working for ESPN in 1983 as a SportsCenter anchor, becoming one of the first women to regularly anchor a nightly network sports broadcast. She later moved on to NBC, serving in several capacities for six years, including as a co-host on NFL Live, alongside Bob Costas and Ahmad Rashad.
In 1993, Gardner became the first woman ever to broadcast play-by-play of a baseball game, calling the action of a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies.
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Gardner was at ESPN from 1983 to 1987, then moved to NBC until 1993, left NBC for the Food Network and departed broadcasting to write a screenplay. For the past three years, a series of health problems left her unable to work, but she said she has recovered.
Encore for Gardner is part of ESPN’s look back
ESPN loves to look back at itself nearly as much as it does at the sports the network has covered over its 25 years of existence. The network is staging ” Old School Week,” bringing back five anchors of the past for one-short returns to SportsCenter starting Sunday night.
Gardner and some of the other anchors recalled an ESPN where anchors did their own makeup in restrooms, had to buy their own on-air wardrobe and worked SportsCenter without TelePrompTers. It was a slower-paced SportsCenter, Gardner said.
“It’s a much different show,” she said, “a much faster show. … Now, it’s like this monster – but it’s a good monster.”
Speaking of monsters, one prominent former anchor purposely wasn’t invited back. ESPN executive Mark Shapiro said Keith Olbermann remains persona non grata for his criticism of the network, particularly as a source for much of the negative material in Mike Freeman’s 2000 book ESPN: The Uncensored History.
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