Terry Gannon Biography

Terrance Patrick Gannon is an American sportscaster for NBC Sports and Golf Channel.  Currently, he is announcing golf and figure skating. He is also known as one of the “most versatile” announcers, having covered everything from college basketball and football to rugby and cycling.

Terry Gannon Age

Terry was born on November 1, 1963, in Joliet, Illinois, United States of America. He is an American and his ethnicity is unknown. Unfortunately, he has not shared any information regarding his childhood.

Terry Gannon Body Measurements

He looks quite cheerful and stands averagely tall with 5 feet 9 inches in height and weighs accordingly. Not very muscular but still Terry has a proportionate physique which makes him appear smart and decent. Additionally,  he has a pair of brown eyes and salt and pepper colored hair.

Terry Gannon Early Life

Terry’s father was a coach. Terry went on to attend Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, Illinois where he entered the baseball team. Soon after graduation in 1981, Terry went on to attend North Carolina State where he played college basketball. He is noted to be a two-time Academic All-America.

While in high school, he used to play for his basketball team and was an All-Chicago selection in both basketball and baseball. He won many trophies throughout his four-year career in basketball starting from 1981 to 1985. Later, he turned to broadcast with the advice of his coach Jimmy Valvano.

Terry Gannon Married

Gannon is married to Lisa Gannon. His wife is from Iredell County. He first met his wife in Greensboro, the place where he enjoyed covering his first assignment, the ACCA tournament. Unfortunately, there is no information about the exact date of their marriage and place. Together, they have given birth to two adorable children; son and daughter each and named them Jake and Madailein respectively. The pair are enjoying their married life as a romantic couple as well as loving parents in Los Angeles.

Terry Gannon Early career

With an offer to play basketball in Europe, he consulted with Coach Valvano, who advised Gannon against it. In 1987, he began broadcasting on Valvano’s TV and radio shows for regionally televised basketball games. Soon, he became a regular basketball game analyst. Gannon credits Valvano for his career, noting that the coach had told his players that basketball “shouldn’t be your entire life, it shouldn’t consume you”. From 1990 to 1994, he was the announcer for the Charlotte Knights, a Minor League Baseball team in Charlotte.

Terry Gannon ABC and ESPN

In 1991 he started working for ABC as a commentator for college basketball. He also appeared on the weekly show Wide World of Sports, which covered an array of arcane sports from ski jumping to supercross.

In the early 1990s, he was asked to travel to Tokyo, Japan, to cover figure skating, a sport he had not followed. Since then, he has announced for a wide variety of sporting events as has been called one of the “most versatile” announcers in TV sports. Before broadcasting a new sport, Gannon approaches it “as if it was a history project”, by learning a sport’s rules, key athletes, and key terms.

During his career at ESPN and ABC (which was merged with ESPN) from 1991 to 2010, Gannon handled play-by-play coverage for college basketball and football. He was an announcer on ABC’s coverage of the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Gannon served as the studio host for ABC Sports’ coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup and has hosted WTA Professional Tennis. Gannon has hosted the Tour de France three times, the Indianapolis 500 and Belmont Stakes once, and three times called the play-by-play at the Little League World Series. By the time he left in 2010, his main tasks were play-by-play coverage for the NBA and WNBA as well as tower announcer and host for golf.

On ABC’s Wide World of Sports, Gannon has covered alpine skiing, ski jumping, and supercross motorcycle racing. He also covered beach volleyball, mountain biking, the Special Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Terry Gannon NBC Sports

In 2010, he joined the broadcast team of the Golf Channel, which is owned by the NBC Sports Group. His primary duties are a Play-by-play announcer on PGA Tour coverage for the Golf Channel, as well as figure skating and rugby for NBC Sports. He also covers a variety of sports during the Olympics: in the 2010 Winter Olympics, Gannon served as a daytime host on Universal Sports. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, he called rowing and Canoeing.

For the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Gannon partnered with two figure skaters, 1998 Olympic champion Tara Lipinski and three-time U.S. national champion Johnny Weir, to call figure skating live for its daytime broadcast as backups for the main team who were broadcast during primetime. They were a massive success and NBC promoted all three to serve as it’s lead figure skating broadcast team. In 2017 he signed a five-year contract extension with NBC and the Golf Channel.

For the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Gannon, Lipinski, and Weir jointly announced figure skating, as well as the Closing Ceremony. He also called ice dancing with Tanith White

Terry Gannon Net Worth

Terry Gannon’s net worth is estimated to be $ 3 million. He is known to have a huge salary coming out of his work in NBC Sports as a sportscaster. Terry ‘s salary clearly depicts his hard work and enthusiasm. The