Armen Keteyian Biography
Armen Keteyian is a best-selling novelist and Armenian American television journalist. He was the Anchor and Executive Producer for The Athletic. He previously worked for CBS News for 12 years as a network television correspondent and as a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes.
Armen Keteyian Age
Keteyian was born Armen Edward Keteyian on March 6, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is 70 years old as of March 2023.
Armen Keteyian Education
Keteyian graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, in 1971, and from San Diego State University with a BA in journalism in 1976.
Armen Keteyian Married- Wife
He is married to Doris (Dede) Rhodes since November 24, 1979, and together they have 2 children.
Armen Keteyian Career
Keteyian began his journalism career in San Diego as a sports and feature writer, freelancing for The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980-1982) after working for the Times-Advocate in Escondido for two years (1978-1980). He was employed as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated in New York (1982-1989) in June 1982, where he specialized in investigations. While there, he covered topics like college football and basketball corruption, sports gambling in America, point-shaving controversies, and the growing use of steroids in professional and amateur sports. Beginning in January 2013, Keteyian was named a full-time correspondent for Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports, a monthly sports magazine show. After more than 50 episodes, the sitcom ended its four-year run in March 2017. Prior to that, he was CBS News’ chief investigative correspondent for seven years (began March 2006), after spending nine years as a sportscaster for HBO and CBS Sports.
In September 1989, he joined ABC News in New York City as a network correspondent and reported on hard-edged and issue-related sports stories for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News shows for eight years. He has written or co-written 11 books, including New York Times bestsellers “Tiger Woods,” “The System,” an inside look at big-time college Football, and Why You Crying?, actor/comedian George Lopez’s autobiography; Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA, a critically acclaimed account of the NBA’s rise under Commissioner David Stern; and the New York Times best seller Raw Recruits. Keteyian received a Women’s Sports Foundation Journalism Award in 1993 for an ABC News story on the seminal Title IX case.
In December 1997, Keteyian joined CBS Sports as a special-features reporter. Since 1998, Keteyian has worked as a sideline reporter for the Network’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, contributing stories on significant NCAA concerns as well as profiles on teams and players throughout CBS Sports’ Final Four broadcasts. After six years as the principal sideline reporter with Greg Gumbel and Phil Simms, he joined the NFL broadcast duo of Dick Enberg and Dan Dierdorf for the 2005 and 2006 NFL seasons. He also worked as a reporter for the CBS Television Network’s coverage of Super Bowl XXXV in February 2001 and Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004.
Keteyian was a Super Bowl XLI contributor in February 2007, and he appeared on The NFL Today on Sunday, December 23, 2007, with a one-on-one interview with New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick. Three of Keteyian’s 11 Emmys were for CBS News, most recently for “Photocopiers: Hidden Dangers” (May 2011) and “Rape in America: Justice Denied,” a two-part investigation exposing the backlog of rape kits across the country (Sept 2010). Four were for CBS Sports, three for Tour de France coverage (2000-2004), and one for a Super Bowl pre-game segment about NFL players and their sons (2005). He also won two Sports Journalism Emmys for Real Sports, including one for a report on the financing of Arizona’s Bank One Ballpark in 1998.
From 1998 until 2006, he was a prominent correspondent for HBO Sports’ Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and he returned to the show from April 2010 to December 2012. He has received two Emmy Awards for RS in Sports Journalism (for a report on the financing of Arizona’s Bank One Ballpark in 1998 and a piece on high school basketball standout Amare Stoudemire in 2001). Point shaving on the North Carolina State University basketball team; the lack of black quarterbacks in the NFL; the killing of show horses for insurance profit; the premature deaths of many professional wrestlers; the rise of unscrupulous player agents in college sports; and the risks and realities of AIDS in sports are among the topics on which he has reported over the years. “A City on Fire: The Story of the ’68 Detroit Tigers,” a 2002 documentary telecast as part of HBO Sports’ “Sports of the 20th Century” series, was co-produced and co-written by Keteyian. He was also the executive producer and primary writer for the Showtime documentary “Lawrence Phillips: Running for his Life,” which told the story of the former Nebraska running back.
Armen Keteyian Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars.