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Linda Cohn's 34-Year ESPN Career and Retirement
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Linda Cohn reflects on joining ESPN in 1992, anchoring 5,000 SportsCenter episodes, and watching the score ticker go from hated innovation to television staple. [1] — Linda Cohn "Linda Cohn joined ESPN in July 1992, anchored 5,000 SportsCenter broadcasts — more than any anchor in history — and was inducted into the N…" 15:53
Linda Cohn spent 34 years as a SportsCenter anchor at ESPN, joining in July 1992 and retiring in 2026.
Linda Cohn joined ESPN in July 1992, anchored 5,000 SportsCenter broadcasts — more than any anchor in history — and was inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. She built that career by starting in radio and learning to communicate naturally, not just read.
Linda Cohn anchored her 5,000th SportsCenter in early 2016, the most of any anchor in ESPN history.
When ESPN introduced the score ticker at the bottom of the screen, every on-air talent stood up in a meeting to protest — they felt it betrayed the art of storytelling by giving away results. They lost. Today, a TV screen without it feels broken.
