DANA JACOBSON Morning Show Host, 6:00-‐9:00AM CBS Sports
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DANA JACOBSON Morning Show Host, 6:00-9:00AM CBS Sports Radio Dana Jacobson is an award winning Sports Anchor and Reporter. She recently joined the CBS family, serving as a host of CBS Sports Radio’s new morning program, alongside former New York Giants football player, Tiki Barber and New York Emmy winning broadcaster, Brandon Tierney. The show, heard across the country from 6:00-9:00AM, airs on the nation’s largest 24/7 major-market radio network. In addition to her role at CBS Sports Radio, Jacobson contributes to studio programming for CBS Sports Network, the cable home of CBS Sports. Jacobson started her versatile, decade-long ESPN career as an anchor on the Emmy Award winning SportsCenter. She went on to anchor and host ESPN First Take (originally known as Cold Pizza), Outside the Lines, and College Football Live. Away from the studio she spent part of one season doing sideline reporting for ESPN’s Sunday Night NBA showcase game and became a well-known part of ESPN’s Summer and Winter X Games, hosting the event’s nightly wrap up show: XCenter. Never one to settle for the familiar, Jacobson branched out to write for ESPN.com and fill in as a radio host on both The Dan Patrick Show and Mike and Mike. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Jacobson got her first job in television broadcasting as an assignment editor at the CBS affiliate in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. She turned her focus to on air work, reporting and anchoring in Traverse City, Michigan and Sacramento, California where she was honored with National Headliner and Regional Edward R Murrow Awards for sports reporting. It was in Northern California that Jacobson also first gave sports radio a try, co hosting an NBA show on the Sacramento Kings flagship station, KHTK 1140. Additionally, Jacobson serves as an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching a sports franchises course for the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management. Jacobson has jumped out of an airplane with the Army’s Golden Knights and in paying off a crazy sports bet cheered with the OSU spirit squad. She ran her first half marathon in 2011 and continues to toy with the idea of a full. She is a passionate sports fan with who is never afraid to go toe to toe with the guys and takes great pride in having the best shoes while doing so. .