Nick Charles
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- For the fictional character Nick Charles, see Nick and Nora Charles
Nick Charles (born Nicholas Nickeas on June 30, 1946) is an award-winning American sports sportscaster and journalist. He was one of CNN's first on-air personalities[1] and won three[1] CableACE Awards for best sports program during his 17-year[2] tenure as co-host of the network's Sports Tonight. He is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago.
[edit] Career in broadcasting
Charles started his career as a sportscaster at local television stations. He worked the nightly sports desk at WICS, in Springfield,IL, where Fred Hickman his future co-anchor at CNN began his career. He worked at WTOP Radio and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as sports director. At WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland, he won an AP award for investigative journalism.[1]
Charles was the first sports anchor for CNN in 1980. He co-hosted CNN Sports Tonight with Fred Hickman, and later hosted his own program, Page One with Nick Charles until leaving the network in 2001. He hosted the Goodwill Games for Turner Broadcasting in 1986 in Moscow, 1990 in Seattle, 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia and covered boxing for the Goodwill Games in New York City in 1998.
Since 2001, Charles has been the host of Showtime's ShoBox: The New Generation. As a boxing commentator, he has interviewed major boxing figures including Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.[1]
He also hosts Boxing on Versus, a sports network. Nick won the Boxing Writer's Association 2007 Broadcaster award.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Nick Charles bio at Showtime.com.
- ^ " WEDDINGS; Cory Azumbrado and Nick Charles," New York Times, Oct. 5, 1997.
