Samantha Ryan (born February 5, 1969) is an American sportscaster who is a sports anchor for

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New York's Eyewitness News' weekend evening broadcasts.

Biography

Early life and education

Ryan is an alumna of the

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Barmash, Jerry. "WCBS-TV's Sam Ryan Balances Work And Family," New York SportsBeat, Thursday, May 27, 2010.
/ref> and also majored in communications at

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Broadcasting career

Early in her career, Ryan worked for

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WVIT WVIT (channel 30) is a television station licensed to New Britain, Connecticut, United States, broadcasting NBC programming to the Hartford–New Haven market. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations divisio ...

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, and

WFAN WFAN (660 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the New York metropolitan area while ...

New York. She joined

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in 1996 and then Fox Sports New York in 2000. She started her first stint at

ABC in September 2002. Ryan joined

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in 2003, and

CBS Sports CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on W ...

and

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in June 2006. She joined

MLB Network The MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit, Comcast's NBC Sports Group, Charter Communications, and Cox C ...

as a studio host and reporter in September 2011 and appeared regularly on MLB Network's game productions, ''The Rundown'', ''Quick Pitch'', and other studio programming.Huff, Richard. "CBS Ch. 2 sports anchor Sam Ryan will finally leave for hosting, reporting gig on MLB Network," ''Daily News'' (New York City), Tuesday, August 23, 2011.
/ref> She gave on-air reports from the field in the

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between the

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and

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in 2017 on MLB Network and TBS. Ryan was with MLB Network until June 2018 when she returned to WABC.

Awards

Ryan won a local

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for "Outstanding Series Feature-soft" in 1999 and a local AP award in 2000.

References

External links

On-Air Personalities: Sam Ryan, MLB Network Host and Reporter (biography) – MLB Network.
American television sports announcers Television anchors from New York City Women sports announcers College football announcers National Football League announcers Major League Baseball broadcasters MLB Network personalities National Hockey League broadcasters College basketball announcers in the United States People from Long Island New York Institute of Technology alumni Hofstra University alumni Living people American women television journalists 1969 births 21st-century American women {{US-tv-bio-stub