Matt Barrie Biography
Matt Barrie works as a sportscaster for ESPN SportsCenter. He joins the show in March 2013. Barrie has worked for Dallas/Fort Worth’s NBC-owned station KXAS-TV, CBS affiliate WLTX, and sports talk station WCOS.
Matt Barrie Age
Matt was born and raised in Arizona, United States of America.
Matt Barrie Education
Barrie is a Scottsdale, Arizona native who earned a B.A. in broadcast journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2020, he was admitted into the school’s Alumni Hall of Fame.
Matt Barrie Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Matt Barrie ESPN News
Barrie, who joined ESPN in March 2013, co-anchors the 12:00 ET weekday edition of SportsCenter alongside Sage Steele. In addition to anchoring from the studio, Barrie frequently hosts SportsCenter on the Road from numerous sites across the country, including college campuses on Saturday mornings during football season, the Masters Tournament, and other events. In 2019, Barrie’s ESPN responsibilities grew when he was named studio host for college football Saturdays. He also calls certain college football games on ESPN networks and contributes to ESPN’s XFL coverage as a play-by-play announcer.
Matt Barrie Career
Barrie formerly worked for NBC-owned Dallas/Fort Worth station KXAS-TV, CBS affiliate WLTX, and Columbia, South Carolina sports talk station WCOS. Earlier in his career, he was a general reporter for NBC affiliate WJFW-TV in Rhinelander, Wisconsin (also serving Wausau), where a 2002 remote interview with then-Governor of Wisconsin Scott McCallum from Madison regarding cuts in state shared services in the market’s Northwoods region ended with McCallum agitated about Barrie’s questions, and calling him a ‘dumb son of a bitch’ with his microphone still hot and the satellite connection still active, thinking his connection McCallum later apologized for his reaction. Prior to joining ESPN, Barrie worked as an anchor/reporter at KXAS, NBC5 in Dallas from 2008 to 2013, where he hosted weekend sportscasts, including Sunday’s Out of Bounds.
Previously, Barrie worked as a sports anchor/reporter for WLTX-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, from 2005 to 2008, and co-hosted the Matt and Tim Show on 1400-AM “The Team,” Columbia’s highest-rated radio show. For WLTX, he anchored Friday-Monday sportscasts, presented the weekly Saturday Night Blitz and Gamecock Extra college football shows, and gave live coverage of the Independence Bowl (2005) and Liberty Bowl (2006).
Barrie started his career at WJFW-TV in Wausau, Wisconsin (2001-02), where he was the station’s main Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers reporter. He was also a sports host/reporter for KSWO-TV in Lawton, Oklahoma, from 2003 until 2005. During his time at ESPN, Barrie also has hosted College GameDay on ESPN Radio. In 2018, he made his debut as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Matt Barrie Net Worth
Matt has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
