Len Berman

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Len Berman on WNBC in 2005.

Multiple Emmy Award winner, Len Berman is the weekday evening sports anchor on WNBC-TV's NewsChannel 4. Berman has been with WNBC/NBC since 1985. He was previously with WCBS-TV from 1979-1982, and before that at WBZ-TV in Boston from 1973-1978.

In 2005, he was one of a handful of rotating co-anchors with Sue Simmons on Live at Five after Jim Rosenfield left for WCBS-TV.

One popular monthly feature Berman is responsible for is Spanning the World, which airs on WNBC and The Today Show. Spanning is a reel of odd and interesting sports highlights from the past month, with a recorded introduction and closing by Don Pardo.

Despite having a very neutral viewpoint when reporting the sports in New York, he grew up an avid New York Yankees fan. He is also partial to Big East basketball, having graduated from Syracuse University and serving as an advisor to that school and to St. John's University.

For the 1982 to part of the 1984, Berman also hosted The NFL on NBC Pregame Show, then known as NFL (insert year) until he was supplanted by Bob Costas. Interestingly, during the early weeks of the 1988 NFL season, Berman served as the host of what was, by this time, called NFL Live! while regular host Costas was hosting NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Len has written two books: Spanning the World and a kids book, And Nobody Got Hurt! He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2005. and was on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on March 14, 2007.

Len currently resides in Port Washington, New York.