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Bryant Gumbel: Biography

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Birth Name: Bryant Charles Gumbel
Birth Place: New Orleans, LA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/29/1948, Libra
Profession: TV host; sportscaster; news anchor

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Bryant Gumbel: TV Guide News

Real Sports Interviews Olympian Usain Bolt | TVGuide.com Sports Report | 10/21/2008

Fans of sports magazine shows get a double bonus Tuesday night with the return of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel and a new episode of ESPN's year-old E: 60. On Real Sports (10 pm/ET, HBO), Gumbel travels to Jamaica to interview Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt. Though the world-record speedster isn't a big talker, the piece offers a nice snapshot of his life both before and after the Beijing Games. Bolt tells Gumbel... read more be the first to leave a comment
Gumbel Exits NFL Network Gig | TVGuide.com Sports Report | 4/11/2008
Bryant Gumbel has told the NFL Network he won't return for another season as play-by-play man in the booth during games.Gumbel has called games for two seasons and was panned by critics from the start. NFL Network did not indicate if Gumbel's broadcast partner, Cris Collinsworth, would return."We've agreed that we'd all be better served going in different directions," Gumbel said. "There are a lot of talented people at NFL Network. I thank them, I wish them well, and I have no doubt that they will be very successful going forward." —J.R. Whalen read more
My favorite TV moment this week... | Matt Roush | 4/6/2006
My favorite TV moment this week (granted, I've been on the road and haven't watched a lot) occurred early Wednesday morning, as Matt Lauer defused the mawkish sentiment on the Today set in the wake of Katie Couric's long-awaited announcement that she would be leaving soon for CBS.

"Also coming up in this half hour..." Lauer quipped, as the Today crew (a great group, as I can attest to from the experience of being on the show a handful of times) broke into laughter.

What I loved about that gag was how it underscored the fact that life on Today would go on, no doubt quite robustly, after the Katie Couric era ends. (There have been so many: the Bryant Gumbel-Jane Pauley era; the Barbara Walters-Hugh Downs era; and so on).

This is a historic shift, no question, and shouldn't be underestimated even as it's overanaly read more
Better Early Than Never
CBS producer Steve Friedman on revamping the net's mornings | Stephen Battaglio | 3/30/2006
There probably isn't anyone on Earth who has produced more hours of morning television than Steve Friedman. In two stints and 10 years of producing NBC's Today, he worked with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. He devised the show's street-level studio in Rockefeller Plaza, which has become a major Manhattan attraction. He led CBS' effort to become a serious player in morning TV when he launched The Early Show with Gumbel and Jane Clayson in 1999. The show has never challenged Today or ABC's Good Morning America in the ratings, but it has become a significant profit center for CBS News. Friedman followed pal Gumbel out of CBS in 2002, but the network's current news president Sean McManus has brought him back — as vice president in charge of morning broadcasts — in the hopes that Friedman can take The Early Show to the next level. The Biz talked with him about how read more

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Bryant Gumbel: Credits

Title	Year	Type
An American Thanksgiving (Host)	2006	TV Show Series
Thursday Night Football (Play-By-Play)	2006	TV Show Series
The Weather Man (Actor - Himself)	2005	Movie
Flashpoints USA (Host)	2003	TV Show Series
Early Show (Anchor)	1999	TV Show Series