On Air Staff
Warner Wolf
6-10 AM with “Imus in the Morning”.
Warner has been doing the sports on radio or tv in New York for over 30 years, after doing radio and tv sports in Washington DC for 15 years.
Warner is currently on WABC’s nationally syndicated “Imus in the Morning” show as well as ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” show, and his own sports talk show, on ESPN on Saturday mornings from 7am-10am.
Warner, who is the author of 2 books, “Gimme a Break” and “Let’s Go To The Video Tape”, is a graduate of American University in Washington DC, where he later taught sports journalism as an Adjunct Professor.
Warner appeared as himself in “Rocky IV”, and “How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days” as well as the television series the “Equalizer”.
He has also worked as a background actor in such films as “A Beautiful Mind”, “Enchanted”, “Men in Black II”, and “Unfaithful”.
Warner spent 5 years, from 1976 through 1980, as a sportscaster at WABC-TV in New York. He also joined ABC Sports, where he hosted Monday Night Baseball, and Wide World of Sports. He called events during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Between April 1965 and his arrival at ABC, Warner covered all major sporting events for WTOP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington DC, including play-by play of Washington Bullets (NBA), Washington Senators (MLB), and The Washington Redskins (NFL).
As a sportscaster for WCBS-TV for 19 years, Warner also appeared as a regular on the CBS Network Morning News. In January and February of 1991, Warner broadcast on Israeli TV during the Gulf War. In May of 2004, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
He is also a member of the NY Jewish Hall of Fame and The Washington DC Jewish Hall of Fame.
