Bill Seward

Bill Seward is an American sportscaster, actor and former coach. Seward is the play by play voice of the Rugby World Cup on NBC and the Rugby World Cup Sevens on Universal Sports.[1] He also hosts the IRB Sevens World Series and Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on Universal Sports and NBC Sports Network.[2] He has called the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Cup, the Eneco Cycling Tour, the Paris Marathon, the Tour de Ski and the prestigious Four Hills World Cup ski jumping event. Seward has also appeared on NBC’s "Early Today" along with programs on MSNBC, CNBC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, FOX SPORTS, SKY SPORTS, and the horse racing networks HRTV and TVG.

Broadcasting career

At CBS Radio in Los Angeles, Seward has earned several Golden Mikes and multiple "Best Radio Anchor Staff" awards, the top honor presented by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters.[3] He also anchored pregame segments on the Dodgers Radio Network and hosted the postgame call-in show, Dodger Talk. Seward has been voted "Top Sports Update Anchor" by the Los Angeles Daily News[4] and spearheaded horse racing coverage on HRTV and TVG.

He previously anchored at ESPN on such shows as SportsCenter, ESPNEWS, and 2Day at the Races.[5] He was also part of ESPN's coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. While at ESPN, Seward was a regular contributor to ABC World News This Morning. Seward was the Sports Director at KVIQ in Eureka, California. He also worked for KADY-TV in Oxnard, California, and WNHT-TV in Concord, New Hampshire before returning to his hometown to become an award-winning sports anchor at KCBS-TV and KNX-AM in Los Angeles.

Acting

In addition to his broadcasting career, Seward has been featured in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, David Fincher’s Zodiac and Jay Roach's Recount, along with appearances on television shows Revenge, Scandal, Touch, Key & Peele, Monk, Everybody Hates Chris, Medium, Numbers, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and several others.[6] Seward is also the host of Sega's popular video game, Virtua Fighter 5.

Personal life

A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Seward was the youngest head football coach in the nation at Saint Bernard High School in Playa del Rey, California, where he was honored as "Bay Area Coach of the Year."[7] Seward coached at Saint Bernard and at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, and had the privilege of working with several future MLB, NBA and NFL players.

References

  1. ↑ "Rugby World Cup TV Schedule". TV by Numbers. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  2. ↑ "NBC SPORTS NETWORK CONTINUES 2013 RUGBY SEVENS COVERAGE". NBC Sports. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  3. ↑ Seward, Bill. "Bill Seward bio". KFWB. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  4. ↑ Hoffarth, Tom (February 3, 1996). "The Greater Eight of L.A. Sports News Updates". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  5. ↑ "2Day at the Races". imdb.com. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "IMDB - Bill Seward". IMDB. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  7. ↑ Modesti, Kevin (February 3, 1996). "Broadcasting's Seward A Friend In Steed". Los Angeles Daily News.

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