Mike Greenberg

About Mike Greenberg

Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York City, New York) is a television anchor, television show host, radio host for ESPN and ABC. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic. At sister network ABC, he is the host of the quiz show Duel.

In 1985, he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. In 1989, Greenberg graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and started work as a sports anchor and reporter at WMAQ-AM in Chicago. He left WMAQ in 1992 to work for WSCR-Radio as a reporter (covering events such as the World Series and the Super Bowl) and talk show host. From 1993 to 1995, he also wrote a weekly syndicated column for the California-based Copley News Service. In 1994, he added reporting for SportsChannel Chicago to his resumé. In 1995, he left SportsChannel Chicago to work at CLTV, becoming an anchor, reporter, and host of a live call-in show. He left Chicago for ESPN in September 1996, where he became one of the first anchors of ESPNEWS when it began broadcasting in November of that year.

In 1999, with ESPN Radio airing in just four markets, Mike Greenberg was approached about returning to radio to be a part of a morning drive-time show with Mike Golic as co-host.[citation needed] Greenberg agreed (with the understanding that he would continue anchoring SportsCenter on a regular basis), and thus, on December 30, 1999, Mike and Mike in the Morning was born.[citation needed] On April 26, 2004, the show started a regular simulcast on ESPNEWS. Because of their continued success, the duo moved to ESPN2 in January 2006 and since May 2007 can be seen in HDTV, where it is now shown live to television viewers in over 300 markets nationwide.[citation needed]