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, he also earned regional Emmy®
awards for Most Outstanding Sports Anchor and Most
Outstanding Sports Reporter. He is believed to be the
first person ever to win both awards in the same year.
He also won a 2007 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. In
all, he has received ten Emmy® nominations in three 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.