Who is Dana Jacobson?
Dana Jacobson was born on November 5, 1971 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States, and is a news correspondent as well as a television host, best known for her work with the CBS news network. She is primarily seen as one of the hosts on “CBS This Morning Saturday” but also appears on various network sports shows.
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The riches of Dana Jacobson
As of mid-2020, Dana Jacobson’s net worth is estimated to be over $1 million, earned through a successful career as a television personality.
She has also worked with other major networks during her career, doing shows for various major sports leagues.
Youth and education
Dana is of Jewish descent; she grew up in Detroit, where she attended Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, known for its notable arts and sports programs. The school is no longer active, as it merged with Lahser High School to form Bloomfield Hills High School. She did not complete high school there, as her family moved to West Des Moines, Iowa, where she attended Valley High School.
After graduating from high school, she returned to her home country and enrolled at the University of Michigan where she took an English and communications course. The university is the oldest in the state, in operation since 1817 and located in Detroit. It is considered one of the best research universities in the United States, offering many comprehensive programs, while the university also participates in Division 1 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Her interest in sports broadened during this time and after graduating in 1993, she soon began looking for work in the media.
Early career
Jacobson got her first television job when she moved to Traverse City, Michigan to start working for station WPBN which shares facilities with WTOM. The television network serves the largest area and for two years she worked behind the scenes as a producer and editor. She also had the opportunity to appear in front of the camera, working mostly on weekends anchoring sporting events and news. She was also the go-to option when it came to replacing news anchors when regulars were unavailable. As part of her job, she covered various sports teams in Northern California and did extensive coverage, profiling many players from the National Basketball Association (NBA) team, the Sacramento Kings.
This naturally helped her to work more in the area, as after her contract with WPBN, she moved to KXTV, an ABC affiliate operating in the Sacramento area. Apart from her work with the Kings, she was also the anchor for various games in the National Football League (NFL), the major sports league in American football which is widely followed in the country. She hosted NFL games on Monday nights, as part of “Monday Night Football”, a position she held for nearly three years. While working with the station, she also worked on news, including hosting the “News10 Red Zone” show.
ESPN and path to CBS
In 2000, Dana was hired by radio station KHTK, an AM station also based in Sacramento, California. She continued her contributions to NBA programming at the station, hosting episodes of “The NBA Insiders” show which covered breaking NBA news, events and other things involving the Kings. As she built her tenure, she was eventually offered a job at a major sports network.
She joined the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) team, one of the most recognized sports channels in the world.
She became part of the radio division, working for ESPN Radio most weekdays in 2005, often replacing Dan Patrick, and also occasionally co-hosted the “Mike and Mike in the Morning” show, replacing Mike Golic – the sports radio show that aired for most of the first two decades of the 2000s. They often discuss the biggest sports topics of the previous day, as well as upcoming events.
Join CBS
After his contract with ESPN and ESPN Radio, Jacobson joined the staff of CBS Sports, the sports division of the much larger CBS television and radio network, providing coverage of most major league sports and college games. They also provide coverage for the Professional Golf Association Tour (PGA).
Her contract with the company led her to become a regular contributor to “NFL Today”, a pre-game show that features NFL news as well as analysis of the day’s games, including interviews with athletes and sports personnel. . The show was previously in partnership with the NFL Network – its main sponsor is Amazon Prime.
Besides “NFL Today”, she also became the host of “We Need to Talk”, which led her to work more with the main news network CBS, becoming a co-host of the show “CBS This Morning Saturday”. She remains a constant presence within the network and her accomplishments led to her being inducted into the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation in 2018. She has also received the Edward R. Murrow Award and the National Headliner Award.
Private life
Dana is single and hasn’t been very public about past or present romantic endeavors. She has a pet dog that keeps her company at home. She is spending a lot of time at home due to restrictions in place to combat the spread of the coronavirus, although she still shows up regularly at the studio. In 2012, she revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child, although she didn’t go into too much detail about it as it was a difficult thing to write about publicly. In recent months, she’s been more involved in cases of police brutality, racial injustice, and more, especially as it relates to how it affects the world of professional sports.
