Becky Dixon Biography
Becky Dixon is a television broadcaster from America. Her most notable role was co-hosting ABC’s Wide World of Sports with Frank Gifford from 1987 to 1988, making her the first female host of the show. At the moment, Dixon serves as the owner and president of AyerPlay Productions in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Age
She was born Rebecca Becky Dixon on 14 April 1951, in Coffeyville, Kansas, United States of America. Becky is 73 years old as of April 2024.
Education- Family
Dixon was born in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was raised in Nowata County, Oklahoma, on the ranch owned by her family. Dixon studied at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s The University of Tulsa. She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a journalism specialization in 1973.
Husband
Dixon is married to her husband, Patrick Keegan. Dixon has two children, Dan and Jennifer.
Career
In 1980, Dixon started her career in television as a news and sports anchor for Tulsa’s KTUL-TV, the local ABC station. After viewing a recording of Dixon’s work at KTUL, Dennis Swanson, the head of ABC Sports, approached her after she had been covering sports for a number of years. When Dixon joined ABC’s Wide World of Sports as a co-host in 1986, she became the first female anchor of a network sports program. Frank Gifford co-hosted the program with Dixon. Dixon covered big athletic events like the Super Bowl, Winter Olympics, Triple Crown, and World Gymnastics Championships in addition to her co-hosting duties. Before moving back to Tulsa, she briefly co-hosted The Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones show in 1989 after leaving network TV.
Dixon founded the radio company Dixon Productions while he was still in Tulsa. Soon after, Dixon started a statewide program called Oklahomans, which featured the accomplishments of numerous Oklahomans. Over the course of the program’s 23-year run, Dixon spoke with a number of Oklahomans, such as Mickey Mantle, Ron Howard, T. Boone Pickens, David L. Boren, Carrie Underwood, and Garth Brooks. Its run concluded in late 2014 with Oklahomans. At his television company, Taylor Communications, Dixon partnered with Ed Taylor in 1994, a trailblazer in the cable and satellite communications industry. In 1997, Dixon was appointed president of Taylor Communications. She bought Taylor Communications in 2013 and changed the name to AyerPlay.
Award
On May 4, 2016, Dixon received the Sadie Adwon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Women in Communications. Dixon is one of seven honorees who were formally inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on November 17, 2016.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.