Bryant Gumbel is a veteran journalist and a household name. He got his start as a sports anchor at Los Angeles’ KNBC, eventually landing a job at NBC Sports in 1975, The Grio reports. For 15 years, he hosted NBC’s “Today” show and still holds the record for longest-running host of the news program. Gumbel has also hosted CBS’ “Public Eye,” and “The Early Show. However, his longest running show to date is HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” a program the journalist has hosted since 1995. The series marked its 300th episode last year and has garnered a whopping 36 Sports Emmys. While a sports enthusiast, for Gumbel, he said he’s always tried to bring an elevated sense of journalism to the sports world.
“[I’ve] always been a sports fan, but I’ve always been less interested in the scores than I was the story elements of sports. I’m overly selfish about it, but I’m enormously proud of it,” he said of his long-running HBO series.
Now the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is set to pay homage to Gumbel and his 50 years of journalistic service, honoring him with this year’s Sports Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award.
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