Bruce Beck
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Bruce Beck is in his eighth year with WNBC. He is the weekend sports anchor for Newschannel 4 and also files numerous sports reports for the station's various weekday newscasts. The versatile sportscaster has covered a multitude of events for Newschannel 4, including The NBA Finals, The Stanley Cup Finals, The World Series, The U.S. Open Tennis Championship, The U.S. Open Golf Championship, The AFC and NFC Championship Games, The NCAA Final Four, The 2004 Summer Olympic Games from Athens, Greece and The 2002 Olympic Winter Games from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beck has hosted and contributed to a number of WNBC-TV specials including the live broadcast of the New York City Marathon, The Belmont Stakes, The U.S Open Golf Championship and "Glory Days," which preceded New York Yankees post-season games.
He also fills in for Mike Francesa as host of WNBC's popular Mike'd Up show on Sunday nights.
Beck was the recipient of a 1999 New York Sports Emmy for outstanding On-Camera Achievement: Sports Reporting. In addition, Beck has hosted the Sun America Sportsdesk and the All-State Sports Update for NBC Sports and has served as a sideline reporter for the network's coverage of the NBA and WNBA on NBC. Beck is a studio anchor for NBA-TV and the host of the weekly Rutgers University basketball and football shows which air on the Madison Square Garden Network.
From 1994 to 1997, Beck hosted "Sportstalk" and "Sports Images" on CN8, the Comcast Network. He also was the play-by-play voice of Atlantic 10 Conference Basketball and Hofstra University Football, while calling college basketball games for CBS Sports. He was the host of CBS' coverage of the Hambletonian and The American Championship Harness Series on ESPN. He was a play-by-play voice and host of Showtime's Championship Boxing. Beck was also the play by play commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship from 1994 to 1997, calling UFC 3 through UFC 15, along with partner Jeff Blatnick.
From 1982 to 1994, Beck was a staff broadcaster with the MSG Network. Among his many duties, he hosted the station's coverage of the Knicks, Rangers, and Yankees. He was the play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball, professional and Golden Gloves boxing and professional tennis. He hosted the Millrose Games, The Virginia Slims Championship, The National Horse Show, and the Lou Carnesecca Show.
Each Thanksgiving, Beck and his family serve those in need at the St. John's Bread and Life Program, the largest soup kitchen in Brooklyn. Among his other charitable endeavors are The Alan T. Brown Foundation to Cure Paralysis, The March of Dimes, Page Morton Black's Parkinson's Disease Foundation, The Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Center of New York, The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, The Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley and PACE (Parents Against Childhood Epilepsy).
Beck has received seven New York Sports Emmys, one Mid-Atlantic Sports Emmy, and three national Cable Ace Awards. A graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York., Beck received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He currently resides in Scarsdale, NY with his wife JJ and two sons Jonathan and Michael and his dog named Pepper.
