Jim Gray Biography
Jim Gray is a sportscaster from the United States working as a reporter, commentator, and interviewer for Showtime, Fox, and Westwood One Radio Network as of 2021, after previously working for ESPN, NBC Sports, and CBS Sports.
How old is Jim Gray? – Age
He is 61 years old as of November 11, 2020. He was born in 1959 in Denver, Colorado.
Who is Jim Gray’s Father? – Family
He is from American Family. He has consistently kept his personal life private, and despite his celebrity as a television star, he has not revealed the identities of his parents or siblings.
Jim Gray Wife
He is married to Frann Gray. The couple has no children.
Jim Gray Salary
He earns an annual salary of $72,245.
Jim Gray Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Jim Gray Career
Gray has worked on a variety of major sporting events, including the live network broadcasts of numerous Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals, NCAA Final Fours, Olympics, The Masters, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, MLB and NBA All-Star Games, and over 1200 World Boxing Championship Title Fights.
Gray has broken numerous sports stories and secured exclusive interviews with celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Mike Tyson, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, and many more. Outside of sports, Gray has interviewed the last ten US Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden.
He has also interviewed South African President Nelson Mandela, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, and John Glenn, the first American in outer space. Gray began his career as a video tape editor and sports reporter at KBTV (now KUSA), the ABC affiliate at the time, in Denver from 1977 to 1981.
Gray moved to Philadelphia in 1981 to work for PRISM-TV, where he hosted a sports studio show and served as a host and reporter for 76ers and Phillies broadcasts until the end of 1983. Gray worked for ESPN as a free-lance reporter in Denver and Philadelphia beginning in 1979, then as the network’s only full-time reporter in Los Angeles from 1984 to 1987. He then went to NBC Sports, where he worked on NFL Live, the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, and Boxing. Gray expanded his duties at NBC Sports in 1994, working as an interviewer and reporter on the NFL, NBA, MLB, Notre Dame Football, and PGA Golf, as well as the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Gray worked as a reporter and interviewer for CBS Sports from 1989 to 1994, covering the NFL, NBA, NCAA, and Major League Baseball. He also worked on the NFL Today studio show, the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992, and the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994. He began his career in boxing broadcasting as a reporter and interviewer for Top Rank and Kingvision closed-circuit telecasts and satellite distribution in 1978. He went on to cover the sport for ESPN SportsCenter, CBS, and NBC Sports. Gray joined Showtime in 1992 as a reporter for the Showtime Championship Boxing Series.
For his work on the Tyson-Holyfield fight, he received a National Emmy Award for individual achievement in 1997. Gray joined the Westwood One Radio network in 2000 as the live studio host for NFL Monday Night Football, as well as the Super Bowl and the NCAA Final Four and National Championship. Gray’s studio partners for the pre-game and halftime shows on Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl have been Mike Ditka (2001–2009), Phil Simms (2004–2008), Don Shula (2006–2009), Larry Fitzgerald (2008–current), and Tom Brady (2009–current). Gray has also worked on CBS Radio Sports and Westwood One’s live radio broadcast coverage of The Masters since 1989.
Gray rejoined ESPN in 2003 to work on NBA broadcasts and SportsCenter, as well as host a number of prime time interview specials. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1997. (NSSA). In March 2005, the Los Angeles City Council and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.