George Michael, famed D.C. sportscaster, dies of cancer
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George Michael, famed D.C. sportscaster, dies of cancer
GalleryGeorge Michael, dean of Washington sportscasters, has died at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer.&
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By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 25, 2009
George Michael, 70, a high-rated and hyperanimated Washington sportscaster whose extensive use of game highlights from across the country on his nationally syndicated show has now become the norm in the industry, died Thursday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Mr. Michael was a popular rock-and-roll DJ in Philadelphia and New York before making a successful transition to television, where his boisterous style and unremitting hustle made him one of the dominant personalities in Washington for years. He represented sports as entertainment, with what some regarded as a team-friendly approach, especially to the hometown Redskins.
Washington Post sportswriter Gary Pomerantz once wrote that Mr. Michael -- who once called himself &King George& as a Philly rock jock -- was the &P.T. Barnum of Washington-area sportscasters, hip with the lip, the Daddyo of the video.&
Mr. Michael worked at WRC (Channel 4), an NBC-owned-and-operated station, from 1980 to 2008. With his bronzed face, receding golden hair and brilliant teeth, he was one of the most immediately recognizable figures on local television, joining news anchors Doreen Gentzler and Jim Vance and weatherman Bob Ryan to form the area's dominant local TV news team in 1989.
During Mr. Michael's prime, local sportscasters were far more influential than now, and he held a spirited ratings battle with popular WUSA anchor Glenn Brenner. After Brenner died in 1992 from a brain tumor, Mr. Michael was the No. 1 TV sports voice in the city.
Over the years, Mr. Michael not only held his own at the anchor desk but also created and produced the long-running shows &Redskins Report& and &Full Court Press,& featuring guests such as former Redskins Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen and local print sports reporters including Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser of The Washington Post. The Post duo's success on Mr. Michael's shows helped them land starring roles in &Pardon the Interruption,& a half-hour national sports opinion show that has appeared on ESPN since 2001.
Starting in 1980, Mr. Michael oversaw a trendsetting show that made liberal use of action highlights from games in addition to interviews and other reports. &The George Michael Sports Machine,& as it was eventually called, was syndicated to almost 200 stations at its peak. The show, one of the first to recognize the growing appeal of NASCAR, was unique on non-cable television, and it would be years before the cable network ESPN would render it obsolete.
&George wasn't the first to make videotape the king -- Warner Wolf did it before him -- but his rise at Channel 4 coincided with better technology to provide the highlights, the greatest sports boom in U.S. history and a profitable local news operation willing to spend time and money on its sports segments,& said Norman Chad, a syndicated columnist and The Post's former sports television critic. &It's amazing to think 'The George Michael Sports Machine' somehow survived ESPN. It was like the corner mini-mart continuing to sell milk, bread and eggs after Wal-Mart moved into town.&
Longtime Washington sportscaster Frank Herzog said that before Mr. Michael arrived, local sports newscasts primarily used video from games they showed.
&Suddenly, he gets the satellite dishes and gets games from all over the country. So he's showing wild video that we could not get our hands on,& Herzog said. &He was willing to gamble on sports that were not mainstream sports, so he made professional wrestling famous. He brought NASCAR to Washington, where it had been ignored. Rodeo, bull riding, even the terrier races at the International Horse Show. He changed the way we looked at sports.&
Mr. Michael was criticized during his career for getting too close to the subjects he covered -- wearing Redskins paraphernalia while covering the Super Bowl during the 1982 season and sitting on the team's float during the victory parade. In a 2002 Post interview for a profile of Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, he said, &He's a good man. I'll tear you apart if you trash him.&
Mr. Michael bristled at suggestions he was anything but objective. &How can you say that?& he once said. &There's two sides to you, a reporter and a fan. I am a journalist first. Hey, putting on that Redskins hat was entertainment.&
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Sportscaster Banned Over Cancer Joke
Controversial sportscaster Sid Rosenberg () has been bounced from Don Imus' wakeup show — for good this time — after joking about breast cancer.
&He will not be returning to the 'Imus In the Morning' () show,& a spokesperson for WFAN-owner Infinity Broadcasting said Tuesday, declining to elaborate.
Rosenberg had been mysteriously AWOL from Imus' show since last Wednesday when he stunned listeners — and viewers of the MSNBC simulcast — by mocking singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis:
&She won't look so pretty when she's bald with one t--,& Rosenberg said.
Indefinite suspension became banishment Tuesday, although &The FAN& says Rosenberg will keep his midday talk show (with Joe Benigno) and Giants game day broadcasts.
Rosenberg, 38, reportedly plans to donate one week's salary to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
A spokesperson for the Dallas-based charity declined comment.
Attempts to reach Rosenberg, his agent and Imus were unsuccessful.
The bad-boy sports-talker underwent rehab earlier this year for an admitted addiction to crack cocaine.
Four years ago, he was suspended for saying tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams were better suited for National Geographic than Playboy.
He has also called female soccer players &juiced-up dykes,& claimed &faggots play tennis,& and said Palestinians were &stinking animals.&
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