Bid now to enjoy a 4:00 PM afternoon coffee with New York sports broadcasting legend Bruce Beck!
Bruce Beck is in his 18th year with NBC 4 New York. He is the station's lead sports anchor. Beck is also the host of NBC 4’s popular Sunday night sports show "Sports Final." Beck is the host and sideline reporter for New York Giants pre-season football. Beck received a 2011 New York Sports Emmy for his interview with former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand. He also received the 2006 New York Emmy for Outstanding Sports Anchor and was the recipient of a 1999 New York Emmy Award for outstanding On-Camera Achievement in Sports Reporting. Overall, he has received eight New York Sports Emmys, one Mid-Atlantic Sports Emmy, and three national Cable Ace Awards. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) elected him New York State Sportscaster of the Year six straight times -- from 2007 through 2012. He received the honor for the seventh time in 2014.
The versatile sportscaster has covered a multitude of events for News 4 including 3 Super Bowls, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, the NCAA Final Four, the Kentucky Derby and the 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Beck was the host of WNBC-TV's coverage of the ING New York City Marathon. He also hosted the Toyota Giants Report with Coach Tom Coughlin, and The Rutgers Report with Coach Greg Schiano. He has hosted and contributed to a number of WNBC-TV specials including the Belmont Stakes, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, and "Glory Days," which preceded New York Yankees postseason games.
In addition, Beck has hosted the Sun America Sports Desk and the All-State Sports Update for NBC Sports, and served as a sideline reporter for the network's coverage of the NBA and WNBA on NBC. Beck was a regular contributor to WOR radio’s morning show with John Gambling. In addition, he is the host of the weekly Rutgers University basketball and football shows which air on MSG Network. He was the blow-by-blow man for professional boxing on Epix in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Beck, who was a studio anchor for NBA-TV from 2000 to 2008, also hosted “Sportstalk and “Sports Images” on CN8, the Comcast Network from 1994 to 1997. He also was the play-by-play voice of Atlantic 10 Conference Basketball and Hofstra University Football and called college basketball games for CBS Sports. He was the host of CBS' coverage of the Hambletonian and the American Championship Harness Series on ESPN. Beck was a play-by-play voice and host for Showtime's Championship Boxing and one of the first to call the blow-by-blow on the Ultimate Fighting Championship. From 1982 to 1994, Beck was a staff broadcaster with the MSG Network. Among his many duties, he hosted the station's coverage of the Knicks, Rangers, and Yankees. He was the play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball, professional and Golden Gloves boxing, and professional tennis. He hosted the Millrose Games, the Virginia Slims Championship, the National Horse Show and the Lou Carnesecca Show. For the past 12 summers, Beck, along with sportscaster Ian Eagle, has run a Sports Broadcasting Camp at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair, N.J. The camp, considered the best of its kind in the country -- teaches the fundamentals of broadcasting and features lectures by some of the top broadcasters in the New York area.