Edward "Ed" Wyatt is an American Australian sports journalist and television presenter. He worked as one of two SBS Television Melbourne-based reporters from 2000 to 2006 and hosted SBS's live coverage of the Super Bowl and the US baseball

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in 2002 and the

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in 2004. He was at 1116 SEN radio since its inception.

Early life/career

Wyatt grew up in

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. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Stanford University. He taught English at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma while also coaching football and basketball.

Media career

Wyatt's career in television started in

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, as both a writer and performer of sketch comedy on the program '' Almost Live!'', for which he won five

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s. He joined Fox Sports World, an international sports network, in 1997 and worked as the face of Australian rules football and hosted English/Scottish/German Premier League matches. He was also the writer responsible for the weekly English

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show that was seen nationally across the USA. In 2000, Wyatt started his work at

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. He reported weekly on US sports for SBS and hosted the Super Bowl live on that network from 2003 to 2008. When Australia's free-to-air screening rights for the Super Bowl switched to the Ten Network in February 2009, Wyatt joined the move and was seen in studio with Andrew Maher and former AFL star and current NFL punter Saverio Rocca. In 2004, he joined Melbourne's

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where he co-hosted Born In The USA (radio show) with Steve Salisbury. In 2006, Wyatt did the voiceover for the

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’s ''Celebrity Golf Shoot-Out''. In April 2008 he was appointed Communications Manager of the

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, a member of Australia's National Basketball League.http://southdragons.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=76907 Most recently Wyatt worked as the play-by-play caller for SEN Digital's A-League football games and currently calls games for the ABL's Melbourne Aces baseball club. He works as an online content creator and also hosts The DRS Zone Formula 1 podcast with his son Sam.

References

External

Broadcast website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyatt, Ed Living people Australian comedy writers Australian television presenters Male journalists Australian sports journalists 1960 births Australian people of American descent Journalists from Portland, Oregon Stanford University alumni