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Jason Bristol
Award-winning Sports Director Jason
Bristol has been a member of the CBS 21 News team since October 2005.
He's best known for his continuing coverage of Harrisburg's
National Sports Hall of Fame project; which earned CBS 21 News its
first-ever regional Edward R. Murrow Award and a Mid-Atlantic Emmy® award.
In 2009 and 2010, he also earned regional Emmy® awards for both
Most Outstanding Sports Anchor and Most Outstanding Sports Reporter,
respectively.
He is believed to be the first and only person ever to win both
awards in the same year.
He also won a 2007 and 2011 Emmy® award for Most Outstanding Sports
Anchor in the Mid-Atlantic region, which includes the entire state of
Pennsylvania (all markets) and parts of New Jersey, Delaware and Ohio,
respectively.
In all, he has won eight regional Emmy® awards and has received
sixteen Emmy® nominations in the past five years for both anchoring and
reporting.
Bristol has also received numerous first-place awards from the
Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association (AP) for
Enterprise/Individual Reporting; Continuing Coverage; and Best Sports
Feature Story.
Jason serves as the lead play-by-play voice for the SPORTSfever
Television Network, which broadcasts college and high school sports
statewide; including games seen on CW 15 and WHP's Comcast Digital Channel,
My21.2.
Bristol previously worked in
Buffalo, New York, where he was one of the main anchors at the Empire Sports
Network. While in Buffalo, Bristol anchored the early weeknight editions of
the "Empire Sports Report," the network’s half-hour news and highlight
program. He also served as beat reporter for the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the
Buffalo Bisons’ Triple-A baseball club. He says his favorite memory is
presenting the 2004 Governors’ Cup trophy to the Bisons after the team won the
postseason championship - and then being doused with champagne during a live
post-game show!
Prior to his stint at ESN, Jason
worked at WSTM-TV in Syracuse where he had many different roles; including
sports director, weekend sports anchor, news anchor, and news reporter.
His career began as a weekend
sports anchor at WDTV in Bridgeport, West Virginia. Six months later, he moved
back to Central New York to work as a sports reporter and producer at WTVH.
Bristol then joined WSTM in March 1998.
Bristol, a native of Syracuse, New
York, graduated from SUNY-Oswego in 1995 and was actively involved in the
campus television and radio stations, as well as his fraternity, Sigma Phi
Epsilon. Jason is a huge fan of college and minor league baseball and has
written numerous articles on the subject. His stories have appeared in Tuff
Stuff, Baseball Card News and Card News. He's an avid sports enthusiast who
loves to tell the stories of local athletes. If you see him in person, please
say "Hi" or "¡Hola!" since Jason also speaks some Spanish.
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