Ed Wyatt
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Edward "Ed" Wyatt (born 1960) 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 World Series in 2002 and the World Ice Hockey Championships in 2004. He has been at 1116 SEN radio since its inception.
Early life/career
Wyatt grew up in Portland, Oregon, United States. 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. [citation needed]
Media career
Wyatt's career in television started in Seattle, as both a writer and performer of sketch comedy on the program Almost Live!, for which he won three Emmy awards.[1]
He joined Fox Sports World, an international sports network, in 1997 [citation needed] 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 Premier League show that was seen nationally across the USA.
In 2000, Wyatt started his work at SBS-TV. 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. [citation needed]
In 2004, he joined Melbourne's SEN 1116 where he co hosts Born In The USA with Steve Salisbury. In 2006, Wyatt did the voiceover for the Nine Network’s Celebrity Golf Shoot-Out. [citation needed]
In April, 2008 he was appointed Communications Manager of the South Dragons, a member of Australia's National Basketball League.[2]
Most recently Wyatt worked as the play-by-play caller for SEN Digital's A-League football games and for the ABL's Melbourne Aces baseball club.