by JWA Staff Our work to expand the Encyclopedia is ongoing. We are providing this brief biography for Dana Jacobson until we are able to commission a full entry.
Dana Jacobson has shown resilience in her career as a sportscaster, transitioning from television to radio while remaining a trusted female anchor in a male-dominated field. Jacobson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993 and began working her way up the ladder as a weekend sports anchor, producer, and editor at WPBN/WTOM-TV in Traverse City, Michigan. From 1996 to 1998 she reported for KXTV’s Monday Night Football, ABC’s Sacramento affiliate, then became its weekend sports anchor. She won a National Headliner Award in 1998 and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2000 for her coverage. In 2002 she began working for ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor, and from 2005 to 2011 she served as co-host of ESPN First Take (originally called Cold Pizza). In 2012 she left ESPN to co-host a CBS radio show, TBD in the AM, offering sports commentary in the same timeslot as several of her former ESPN colleagues. As of 2024, she works for CBS Sports, is a regular contributor to the radio show NFL Today, and hosts CBS’s We Need to Talkand CBS Saturday Morning. In 2018, the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation inducted Jacobson into its Hall of Fame.
Dana Jacobson is a co-host of "CBS Saturday Morning." Her work regularly appears across CBS News platforms. Jacobson has conducted numerous news-making interviews including exclusive profiles with Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant.
According to 98.5 radio in Boston (The Sports Hub), Jacobson got engaged to Boston Celtics play-by-play announcer Sean Grande. They were married on September 28, 2019.
Her Kids And Family Details. Dana Jacobson is currently married to Sean Grande, a Boston Celtics broadcaster. The duo is parents to a son who happens to be Dana's stepson.
CBS Saturday Morning is a Saturday morning television program that broadcasts on the American television network, CBS. It is currently anchored by Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson and Jeff Glor.
Michelle Miller was kept a secret by her white-Hispanic birth mother and raised by her African American father's family because a “child by a Black man” wasn't accepted. Despite the pain of being given up by her biological mom, Miller grew up to become a respected TV journalist and make her mark on the world.
His 16 NCAA Title Games stands as a play-by-play record. He made his national play-by-play debut at age 28, calling college football on ABC Sports. Grande lives in Cambridge, MA with his son Jackson, and his wife, Dana Jacobson of CBS News.
Retired from her news anchor role since 2007, Jacobson now spends the warmer months on Nantucket, and much of that season playing golf on the island's breathtaking courses, like Miacomet and Sankaty Head.
However, she was later chosen to be the station's public affairs director. She moved to WBZ-TV as an off-camera producer after WKBG eliminated its public affairs division. On March 19, 1972, Jacobson joined newly-formed WCVB-TV as a reporter. There she met news anchor Chet Curtis, whom she married in May 1975.
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