Jerry Girard Biography
Jerry Gerard was an American radio personality and sports anchor, most notably at WPIX in New York City. Born as Gerard Alfred Suglia in Chicago
and raised in The Bronx, New York,where he attended Manhattan College, Jerry Girard went on to work as a radio disc jockey in places like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Altoona, Pennsylvania and Gary, Indiana, before returning to New York to work as a record librarian at WNEW (AM).
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Jerry Gerard who was an American radio personality and sports anchor, most notably at WPIX in New York City was born Born on August 6, 1932, Chicago, IL and Died on March 25, 2007, Hawthorne, NY.
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Born as Gerard Alfred Suglia in Chicago and raised in The Bronx, New York, where he attended Manhattan College, Jerry Girard went on to work as a radio disc jockey in places like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Altoona, Pennsylvania and Gary, Indiana, before returning to New York to work as a record librarian at WNEW (AM).
Jerry Girard Education
Born as Gerard Alfred Suglia in Chicago and raised in The Bronx, New York, where he attended Manhattan College, Jerry Girard went on to work as a radio disc jockey in places like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Altoona, Pennsylvania and Gary, Indiana, before returning to New York to work as a record librarian at WNEW (AM).
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He first joined WPIX in 1967 as a news writer, and in 1974 became sports anchor. He had a dry sense of humor and a style that treated his viewers like they were intelligent sports fans. He often gave horse racing results at the end of his segments.
He also distinguished himself among sportscasters by eschewing the usual practice of showing highlights of sports games, instead opting to show key plays that would lend themselves to his particular takes on the games in question. His run with WPIX ended in 1995 when he resigned rather than accept a demotion after 21 years as the sports anchor. He was replaced by Sal Marchiano
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Longtime sportscaster Jerry Girard dead at 75
Veteran New York sportscaster Jerry Girard, who always added a witty twist to his nightly jock reports, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 75. Girard’s longtime TV home, WPIX-TV Channel 11, announced his death on last night’s newscast.
Girard was born and reared in the Bronx and worked for 20 years at WPIX, reporting on the local sports scene with a deadpan delivery oozing with caustic humor.”I made a pledge to myself when I first went on the air that I was going to be myself, sink or swim,” Girard said in a 1984 interview.
Girard, who lived in Bronxville, Westchester County, was 41 years old when he first went on the air, working his way up from a news writer. He once told the Daily News that WPIX News Director John Corporon asked him to audition, but he almost didn’t show up.
“I was really not that interested, and I sort of forgot about it until he [Corporon] came by one day and said, ‘Don’t forget the audition tomorrow,'” Girard recalled. “I hadn’t prepared a script, so I went with brief notes and ad-libbed the rest. Much to my shock, they liked it.”
Girard’s run as WPIX’s sports anchor lasted 20 years before he resigned in 1995 rather than take a demotion. Unlike most sportscasters, Girard didn’t like showing highlights from games. Instead, he would choose key plays to show and dissect. He’d punctuate his broadcasts with memorable lines that sports fans would retell around the water cooler the next day.
During the Giants’ lean years, Girard quipped: “The Giants really have to tighten their defense. I saw a linebacker with binoculars. You have to get closer to the ball than that.”Funeral arrangements are pending.
JERRY GIRARD, RIP
While Phil Mushnick made note of Jerry Girard’s passing Monday morning, the sad news only hit the APwire this evening (link courtesy Wojohowicz, who adds, “seemed like most of the early ESPN anchors lifted Girard’s schtick , with half the laughs & twice the smarm.”)
Jerry Girard, a sports broadcaster for WPIX-TV in New York from 1974 to 1995, died Sunday in Hawthorne, N.Y. He was 74.
He was a disc jockey in Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Gary, Ind.; and Altoona, Pa., before returning to New York as a record librarian at WNEW radio. He moved to WPIX as a news writer before becoming the station™s sports voice.
His nightly television appearances to describe the day™s sports happenings were characterized by frequent acidic commentary, invariably delivered with a straight face.
Girard, who resigned from WPIX in 1995 after his weeknight shift was given to Sal Marciano, was a genuine treasure during an era in which the nightly sports highlights on broadcast TV had far greater import than today. Long before ESPN invaded every home, and years before WFAN pioneered a yack radio format that now exists in most major U.S. cities, the odd bit of commentary from the likes of Girard (along with Bob Lobel on Boston’s WBZ, was very much ahead of its time.
The Journal News notes that friends may make memorial contributions in Girard’s name to: Hospice and Palliative Care of Westchester, 95 S. Broadway, Fourth Floor, White Plains, NY 10601.