Brett Haber
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Brett Haber is an American sportscaster. He is currently the Sports Director for WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. In the mid-1990s he was an anchor on ESPN's flagship news program SportsCenter.
In addition to his tenures at WUSA-TV and ESPN, Haber has worked in the sports departments of WNNE-TV (White River Junction, Vermont), WCAX-TV (Burlington, Vermont), WCPO-TV (Cincinnati), WTTG-TV (Washington, DC) and WCBS-TV (New York). Haber replaced the legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf as Sports Director of WCBS in 2000.
In 2003, Haber forayed into non-sports radio, hosting the morning drive program on Washington, DC's hot adult contemporary outlet Z-104 (WWZZ-FM). Haber left WWZZ to return to television full-time in 2004. The radio station folded in 2005. Haber has also done a variety of play-by-play and sideline assignments, including New York Jets pre-season football, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, ATP Tennis, PBR Bull Riding, and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
Haber is currently the lead play-by-play announcer for the Outback Champions Series tennis tour, seen on Tennis Channel and other outlets around the country.
Haber has been honored with 11 regional Emmy Awards, most recently as the Mid-Atlantic's top sportscaster in 2007. Haber was part of the cast of "SportsCenter" that won the national Emmy for best studio show in 1996. He has also won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting, and was honored by the ATP Tour in 1997 with the prestigious Ron Bookman Award as the top international tennis journalist.
Haber is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He is a member of the board of directors of the Tim & Tom Gullkison Foundation for brain tumor patients and their families.
