Bruce Beck, Sports Anchor for the weekend edition of “News 4 New
York” is in his 11th year with WNBC. He regularly files
sports reports for the stations various newscasts throughout the
week.
Beck, elected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters
Association as the 2007 New York State Sportscaster of the Year, is
a recipient of a 2006 New York Emmy for Outstanding Sports Anchor
and 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.
He is a versatile sportscaster and has covered a multitude of
events for News 4 New York, including Super Bowl XLII, 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 and 2006 Olympic
Games.
Beck is the host of the Toyota Giants Report with Coach Tom
Coughlin and The Rutgers Report with Coach Greg Schiano. He
has also hosted Mike’d Up, News 4 New York’s Saturday Night Sports
Show. Beck has hosted and contributed to a number of WNBC-TV
specials, including the live broadcast of the ING New York City
Marathon, 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
Sportsdesk and the All-State Sports Update for NBC Sports, and has
served as a sideline reporter for the network’s coverage of the NBA
and WNBA on NBC.
Each Thanksgiving Beck and his family serve those in need at the
St. John’s Bread & Life Program, the largest soup kitchen in
Brooklyn. Among his other charitable endeavors are PACE
(Parents Against Childhood Epilepsy), the UJA Federation, the Tom
Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
of America, the Alan T. Brown Foundation to Cure Paralysis, the
March of Dimes Greater New York Chapter, Page Morton Black’s
Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the Exchange Club Child Abuse
Prevention Center of New York, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley.
A graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, Beck received a
Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He currently resides in
Scarsdale, NY with his wife and two sons.