Gary Miller (born October 31, 1956) is an
Miller is currently an anchor for the CBS Corporation-owned duopoly of KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles, working mainly nighttime newscasts. He and former Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Eric Karros also co-host a pregame show which airs before about 40 telecasts of Dodgers games on KCAL, the team's broadcast flagship station. The show is called Think Blue.
Until November 2006, he was host of West Coast Bias, a daily sports talk show on KSPN radio in Los Angeles, along with former National Football League athlete D'Marco Farr. The show, which airs at 1 p.m. Pacific time Monday through Friday, sometimes originates at ESPN Zone in Anaheim, California. On November 10, 2006, it was reported that Miller was leaving the show, effective immediately. The program was renamed "The D'Marco Farr Show" with guest hosts replacing Miller.[1]
From 1990 to 2004, Miller worked at ESPN. He was an anchor at SportsCenter, the host of ESPN's "Baseball Tonight," and the last host of the sports interview show Up Close when the latter was canceled in 2001. Miller also occasionally did play-by-play of Major League Baseball games, and was the primary dugout reporter on Sunday Night and Monday Night baseball broadcasts, as well as ESPN Daygame. Other play-by-play assignments during this period included games of the College World Series and the Little League World Series.
Before Miller came to ESPN, he spent eight years at CNN and Headline News as part of their sports coverage. From 1978-82 he was the Sports Director at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia.
He has a bachelors' degree in communications at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and was the sports director at the campus radio and television stations, WSIU.
Miller is married with two children.
Trivia
Miller graduated in the same high school class, in Naperville, Illinois, as former CNN news anchor Paula Zahn.
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