Maria Sansone
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| Maria Sansone | |
| Born | February 26, 1981 Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Was the host of Yahoo! TV's daily video show The 9 |
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Maria Grace Sansone (born February 26, 1981 in Erie, Pennsylvania) was the host of The 9, an internet video show that was part of Yahoo! Entertainment from July 6, 2006 to March 2008. The show was cancelled due to a lack of viewers. Maria is currently working on a new video show to be aired on You Tube. The new show is scheduled to debut sometime in the summer of 2008.
Sansone started in television at age eleven when Mike Gallagher of WJET-TV in Erie hired her to host her own children's sport show, Down to Size. She interviewed Michael Jordan, Bill Cowher, Tommy Lasorda, and other sports figures. Sansone later did several sports reports for ABC Sports, including interviews from the Little League World Series, Wide World of Sports, and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Sansone played basketball while attending high school at Villa Maria Academy (Erie, Pennsylvania) and graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2003. While a junior at Syracuse she co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly with Regis Philbin while Kelly Ripa was on maternity leave.
Sansone is a red carpet host for the TV GUIDE NETWORK coverage of award shows. She is a contributor to EXTRA, ESPN and New England Sports Network (NESN) covering the Boston Red Sox. She is also a former mtvU VJ. She resides in New York City.
