Glenn Frizell
BLACK HISTORY, NOTABLE BROADCASTERS, FEB. 17: Kevin Timothy Frazier is a co-host of Entertainment Tonight and a former popular sports anchor. Fraizer was born in May of 1964 in New Jersey to legendary basketball coach Nathaniel Fraizer. A young Fraizer watched his father coach at the University of Illinois, Morgan State University, and under Willis Reed with the New York Knicks. Kevin Frazier attended Hammond High School in Columbia, Maryland. He served for two years as assistant coach to his father while attending Morgan State and Hampton Institute and completed his bachelor’s degree in communications in 1989. Straight out of college Frazier landed a job as a news and sports reporter and photographer at WCBD-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1991 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland’s WBFF-TV. By 1995 Frazier’s popularity as a sports journalist and anchor made him a stand-out choice for the debut of a new LA-based Fox Sports News (aka National Sports Report) show. When the nature of programming on FX Network changed, Frazier decided to join ESPN’s sportscasting team as anchor of Sportscenter. In 2004 Frazier left ESPN to host the weekend edition of Entertainment Tonight. Fraizer has also been involved with other forms of media: he played himself in the movies Rat Race (2001) and Juwanna Mann (2002), and making guest appearances on several TV shows, including One on One and The Ashlee Simpson Show.
