COMCAST SPORTSNET HIRES SUSANNAH COLLINS AS FULL-TIME REPORTERANCHOR FOR SPORTSNET CENTRALAND ADDITIONAL ON-AIRONLINE INITIATIVES
Chicago, IL (September 18, 2012)Comcast SportsNet, the television home for the most games and most comprehensive coverage of the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox, today officially announced the full-time hiring of anchorreporter Susannah Collins as its newest on-air talent member (effective September 20) for the networks signature nightly sports news program, SportsNet Central. Collins will also handle on-site, post-game reporting duties throughout the year at home games for all four of CSNs pro team partners. In addition, Collins will frequently host viewer interactive studio segments on the networks post-game shows, along with a variety of digital initiatives that will be showcased on CSNChicago.com. Collins can also be followed via Twitter @SusannahCollins. The announcement was made by Charlie Schumacher, Senior News Director for Comcast SportsNet Chicago.
We are very pleased to bring someone of Susannahs experience and local sports enthusiasm to our network on a full-time basis, said Schumacher. Providing the very best live, daily local sports news coverage continues to be our focus and Susannah has certainly done an excellent job for us on a free-lance basis over the past several months and will no doubt be a terrific full-time addition to our already solid on-air team.
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Currently the co-host of Comcast SportsNets popular Gas Money sports trivia show, Collins has already been handling post-game reporting duties for CSNs White Sox telecasts, along with reporting and anchoring on SportsNet Central. Previously, Collins gained national attention for her on-air work at Showtime Sports, where she appeared as a special correspondent for the networks weekly studios shows Inside the NFL and Inside NASCAR. At Showtime, Collins primarily reported on both topical and light-hearted stories, along with frequent on-set studio interaction with the programs hosts and analysts. Over the past two years at Showtime Sports, Collins reported from both Super Bowls in Dallas and Indianapolis interviewing numerous athletes and celebrities. Collins also covered MMA and boxing events for Showtime as a live event reporter and web-feature contributor.
In addition to her work at Showtime, Collins also served as a correspondentreporter for the NFL Network, NBC and CBS over the past two years. In 2011, Collins anchored the weekend sports broadcasts at WCBS-TV in New York. This past summer, Collins hosted numerous Fan Fest events for MLB.com at the 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City.
Collins, who grew up in the Chicago western suburb of Downers Grove, IL, attended Downers Grove North H.S. She graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 2001, where, as an undergraduate, worked extensively on both ends of the microphone for student radio station WPGU-FM 107.1.