ESPN has added to their anchor ranks by going to the local New York scene and hiring sportscaster Lisa Kerney from WCBS. Here's the announcement from Bristol…
"Prior to joining ESPN, Kerney had been at WCBS-TV in New York, serving as sports anchor for CBS 2 News This Morning since January 2012. She had also been at MLB Network where she was a sports contributor/reporter (October 2010-December 2011).
“We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to add someone as talented and engaging as Lisa to our world-class team of studio anchors,” said Rob King, Sr. Vice president, SportsCenter and News.
Previously, Kerney was at KING-TV in Seattle (October 2005-10) serving as weekend sports anchor and Northwest Sports Tonight host. She was also responsible for the national highlight segment of The Jim Mora Show, which aired after every Seattle Seahawks game."
It'll be interesting to see how high of a profile Kerney has at ESPN. New anchors aren't usually given the distinguished honor of an official ESPN press release. Without Highlight Express on ESPNEWS anymore it's pretty much SportsCenter or bust these days at the network for new anchors to be worked into the rotation. Perhaps that means Kerney is in for a bright beginning at the network.
She might want to be more careful about publicly campaigning for more hockey highlights though now that she's employed by ESPN…
Watching @espn @SportsCenter top 10 and my 2 yr old is begging for hockey highlights… #seriously #breedingathletes @PatrickKerney
— Lisa Kerney (@LisaKerney) February 5, 2014
I kid… maybe.
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