Warner Wolf

Birthday: 11 November 1937, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA

Birth Name: Warner William Wolf

Warner Wolf began his broadcasting career in 1961 at WLSI-AM Radio in Pikeville, Ky. He served as disc jockey, news reporter, weatherman and sportscaster. Wolf also filled similar roles at WEPM-AM in ...Show More

Warner Wolf began his broadcasting career in 1961 at WLSI-AM Radio in Pikeville, Ky. He served as disc jockey, news reporter, weatherman and sportscaster. Wolf also filled similar roles at WEPM-AM in Martinsburg, W. Va. and WQMR-AM in Silver Spring, Maryland. Between April 1965 and his arrival at ABC, Wolf covered all major sports events for WTOP-TV Washington, D.C., including play-by-play for the Washington Bullets, Washington Senators and Washington Redskins. Additionally, he called University of Maryland basketball and football games.Prior to joining CBS 2 in 1980, Wolf was sportscaster for WABC-TV New York (1976-80). He also served as host of ABC Sports' Monday Night Baseball, Wide World of Sports and College Football Scoreboard (1975), as well as reporter at the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Montreal and the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Innsbruck.Wolf, who broadcast live sports reports for Israeli television during the Gulf War, appears regularly on the nationally syndicated "Imus in the Morning" program. He is the author of "Let's Go to the Videotape" and "Give Me a Break", has appeared as himself in Rocky IV (1985) and the CBS series The Equalizer (1985) and served as an extra in several feature films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001). Hide