Tony Kornheiser

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Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948), 71, is a writer and columnist, as well as a podcast and television talk show host and restaurateur. He is best known for his work in three media formats: as a co-host of ESPN's Emmy Award-winning sports debate show Pardon the Interruption since 2001, as well as host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, a radio show and podcast.

"In the history of sports media, [Kornheiser] is the most multitalented individual ever," longtime ESPN executive John Walsh said.

Early life

Kornheiser was born in New York City and raised in Lynbrook, near the city. He was the only child of Estelle (née Rosenthal, 1915–1978) and Ira Kornheiser (1910–2000). His father was a dress cutter. Kornheiser spent his summers at Camp Keeeyumah, Pennsylvania, during his youth. Larry Brown, a future NCAA and NBA basketball coach, was one of his advisers. Kornheiser was a sports editor at George W. Hewlett High School, where he was the sports editor of the school newspaper. In 1965, he graduated from high school.

Kornheiser left high school to Binghamton University, where he majored in English literature and began his journalist work at the Colonial News (now called Pipe Dream). In 1970, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. Kornheiser has often referred to his college years. He worked with children with disabilities for a brief period of time after college.

Personal life

Kornheiser and his partner, Karril, currently live in Washington, D.C., as well as Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Michael and Elizabeth have two children. Kornheiser is Jewish.

Kornheiser was a member of the Young Democrats Club while in high school. Kornheiser was a registered Republican as of 1990, but he did so because his wife was a registered Democrat and the couple wanted to "receive mail from both sides." Later, he referred to his decision to register as a Republican as a "mistake." During the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, Kornheiser voted for Barack Obama. "I land on the liberal side of the fence all the time, certainly on social issues," Kornheiser said in a podcast episode released on January 31, 2017.

Kornheiser has a strong fear of flying. He goes to bed early. In alphabetical order, he can identify all fifty states and their capitals.

Kornheiser revealed that he had skin cancer and had undergone surgery in 2006.

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Print career

Kornheiser began his career in New York City, where he wrote for Newsday from 1970 to 1976. Newsday's first job involved reporting high school sports. Kornheiser then moved to The New York Times, where he wrote between 1976 and 1979.

In 1979, George Solomon recruited Kornheiser to join The Washington Post as a general assignment reporter in Style and Sports. Kornheiser wrote a profile of Nolan Ryan in 1980, which was also the front page of Inside Sports' charter issue. In 1984, he became a full-time sports columnist for the Washington Post. On November 12, 1989, he began writing columns for the Washington's Style Section.

Kornheiser's Sunday column (written for a more general audience) in the Style Section in the 1990s were published in three columns per week, including a Tuesday column and a Thursday column. He began working with ESPN Radio in 1997 and then continued his column at the Post. Kornheiser wrote columns titled "Parting Shots" for ESPN The Magazine from 1998 to 2000 as part of his ESPN Radio service.

Kornheiser's columns were usually sarcastic with a dash of humour. He used an alter ego in italics to challenge his assertions of self-deprecation, such as "Excuse me, Tony." Kornheiser was described by some as "the wittiest columnist" in American newspapers, according to Stephanie Mansfield of Sports Illustrated. In retrospect, Columbia Journalism Review writer Robert Weintraub praised him for his "blend of beauty and precision." When needed, Kornheiser was also capable of being "deadly serious."

Kornheiser wrote a series of now-famous Bandwagon columns in 1991 to talk about the Washington Redskins' Super Bowl run this year. In the first game of the season, he first came up with the theory when the Redskins trounced the Detroit Lions 45–0. When the team had an undefeated 4–0 record, he officially introduced the first "Bandwagon" column. Every Tuesday, the Bandwagon column appeared, "the fun and hilarity of sports" were among sports's highlights. A growing number of fans read the Bandwagon column in earnest as the season progressed and the team's results improved.

Kornheiser and his Redskins colleagues Jeanne McManus and Norman Chad rode in a 38-foot recreational vehicle branded as the Bandwagon during a 1,200-mile ride to Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the Redskins advanced to Super Bowl XXVI. "The most fun I ever had as a writer," Kornheiser later described the Bandwagon columns as "the most fun I ever had as a writer."

Kornheiser stopped writing Style Section columns in the early 2000s and only wrote one column a week. On September 30, 2001, his last Style Section column was published. Three of his books, Pumping Irony, Bald as I Want To Be, and I'm Back for More Money, are a collection of his Style Section columns.

Kornheiser began writing A Few Choice Words in 2005, with his photograph in the Newspaper's Sports Section. These short, sports-related columns appeared on the second page of the Post's Sports section and were considerably shorter than the paper's full-length columns. Kornheiser was a journalist who used to write for the newspaper. This was the first time the Post carried a columnist's photograph beside his column. If he had other obligations, he called these short columns "columnettes." He did not write columns between April 26, 2006, and August 7, 2006, in order to prepare as an analyst for ESPN's Monday Night Football. Beginning in August 8, 2006, he wrote columns titled Monday Night Diary to detail his Monday Night Football experiences. Dan Steinberg's D.C. Sports Bog took over his short-column space.

On May 14, 2008, Kornheiser announced that it had purchased a buyout from the Post. "I love the paper." "They were awesome to me every day that I was there," he told Reuters. "But I don't do much for the paper anymore." Kornheiser had not written a regular column for the paper's print edition since 2006. Nevertheless, Kornheiser and Wilbon stayed on tape for the Washington Post until June 2, 2009, when the last one was announced on the Post's website. Wilbon believes there will be more installments in the future, although Kornheiser seems to be in agreement that it is a permanent decision that management has made.

Kornheiser said on his radio show that he was fired by the Washington Post on May 20, 2010, "they fired me in a despicable manner." "Raju Narisetti fired me from the Washington Post on September 11, 2013, and I hate his guts," Kornheiser continued.

Radio and podcast career

Between May 25, 1992 and September 14, 1997, Kornheiser hosted The Tony Kornheiser Show in Washington, D.C. on WTEM – also known as Sports Radio 570. The Kornheiser-led spectacle was part of WTEM's original lineup. Between January 5, 1998 and March 26, 2004, ESPN Radio syndicated the show from January 5, 1998 to March 26, 2004. He appeared on WTEM locally from November 10, 2004 to April 28, 2006, after which Kornheiser put the show on hold in order to prepare for his duties with Monday Night Football. XM Satellite Radio carried his show for a brief period between February 28, 2005 and April 28, 2006.

Kornheiser joined WTWP, Washington Post Radio, on February 20, 2007 to relaunch his radio show after finishing the 2006 season on Monday Night Football. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. on XM Sports Nation, Channel 144, his show was broadcast live from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Following the June 28, 2007, Kornheiser went on hiatus from the show due to his Monday Night Football responsibilities. David Burd hosted the program, as well as the same supporting cast. During the absence, the show was called The Tony Kornheiser Show Starring David Burd.

After being unable to renew his deal due to declining ratings, Kornheiser returned to the show from January 21, 2008, to June 27, 2008. WWWT's original broadcast aired live from 8 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on WWWT, as well as on XM Sports Nation, XM Sports Nation, 144, from 8:15 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. He said he would not return to the radio until he was done with Monday Night Football during this period in 2008.

From 10:00 a.m. to noon on Washington, D.C. radio station WTEM, and streamed live on the station's website, ESPN980.com, until June 2016. The program was also available as a podcast. Initially, there was a 24-hour "podcast delay," a source of many chuckles amongst followers and show viewers alike. The delay ended in 2015, allowing listeners to download episodes a few minutes after the live broadcast ended.

Kornheiser announced on June 2, 2016 that his show would be relaunched as a podcast-only show. According to Kornheiser, the reason for doing a podcast-only show was to own his material and bring the podcast a bit closer to his house. However, the show style would remain the same as the radio show, although marginally shorter in length. Michael Kornheiser's uncle, Michael, handled the podcast on social media and launched a website with information about how to subscribe.

Kornheiser returned from his summer holiday with the first full episode of the new podcast on September 6, 2016. The first episode was titled "We're Back!" The Tony Kornheiser Show Returns" ran for 1 hour and four minutes. The bulk of the old show, as well as "Old Guy Radio" and "Mailbag," were kept. In the studio, Gary Braun and Chris Cillizza joined Kornheiser. The first guests to join by phone were Michael Wilbon of ESPN and Steve Sands of the Golf Channel.

In partnership with sports talent firm IMG and on-demand audio company DGital Media, the podcast-only show is produced. At 11 a.m., the podcast is available. You can now access iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn.

Throughout the show's many iterations, the show's main feature has been its willingness to address topics other than sports, such as news, politics, entertainment, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. The show had a large and faithful following in its early years, which has continued to this day. The supporters, who refer to themselves as "littles," hold an annual musical convention and use "La Cheeserie" as a catch phrase (in reference to a cheese counter at Calvert Woodley, D.C.-area liquor store Calvert Woodley).

Television career

During the NFL football season on Washington's Channel 50 in the early 1980s, Kornheiser appeared on a local weekly Washington Redskins TV show, including Pete Wysocki, a popular former Redskins linebacker and local hero, who was televised from a local restaurant/bar in Washington, D.C., dubbed "Champions."

He appeared on ESPN's The Sports Reporters beginning in 1988 and then continuing into the 1990s. He hosted the show when Dick Schaap, the show's then-host, was absent. He served on Full Court Press, hosted by George Michael on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before the NFL off-season was cancelled in December 2008 due to budget cuts. He appeared on Redskins Report on the WRC several times. He has appeared on numerous other ESPN programs, including SportsCenter, Who's Number One?, and various celebrity/sportspeople's profiles for SportsCentury.

Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a sports television show that airs on various ESPN television networks, TSN, BT Sport ESPN, XM, and Sirius satellite radio stations, as well as a downloadable podcast. Kornheiser and co-host Michael Wilbon discuss, and often disagree about, the top news of the day's in "sports... and other stuff" (as Kornheiser put it in the show's original promo).

On the radio and on Full Court Press, Kornheiser's lively segments with Wilbon, which matched their actual discussions in The Washington Post's newsroom, sparked the suggestion for PTI well before his time at ESPN Radio. In 2010, 2017, and 2019, the show received a Sports Emmy Award for the best Daily Outstanding Studio Show.

Kornheiser accepted and accepted an invitation to be a color analyst on Monday Night Football, going from ABC to ESPN on Monday Night Football. He had originally been rejected in favour of Sunday Night Football analyst Joe Theismann, but Kornheiser was brought aboard along with ABC's call of Sunday Night Football for NBC after Al Michaels left ABC to call Sunday Night Football for NBC, along with new play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico. Kornheiser was a member of the Atlanta Falcons' 23–3 triumph over the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' first game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.

Unlike Wilbon, Kornheiser does the majority of PTI in-studio due to his own fear of flying. Kornheiser traveled by train and then returned from the Orlando trip by plane prior to joining MNF; his last trips outside of the studio were to cover Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans and to attend the NFL owners' meetings in 2006. On the PTI's April 6, 2006 edition, he expressed surprise at the amount of travel required for MNF. Despite having said on his radio show that he is taking steps to handle his aviophobia, he actually spent five weeks on the road, heading to mostly western MNF sites, doing PTI via satellite.

Kornheiser has rejoined Monday Night Football for his second season. "If they would like to have me back, my inclination is that I would do it again," Kornheiser told Newsday on January 9, 2007.

Kornheiser will miss Monday Night Football due to a fear of flying, according to ESPN. In the MNF booth, former Oakland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden replaced Kornheiser.

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