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Daniel J. Lovett
Dan Lovettwas born in South Dakota and raised in Idaho, where in 1959 he worked in radio for the first time as a student reporter.
Dan left for Jefferson City, Missouri, in late 1959 for his firs...view moreDan Lovettwas born in South Dakota and raised in Idaho, where in 1959 he worked in radio for the first time as a student reporter.
Dan left for Jefferson City, Missouri, in late 1959 for his first full-time, on-air job with KWOS Radio; by 1961, he had made his first daily appearance on television in Jeff City as a news anchor.
Hired by the McLendon Radio Corporation in 1964 for Houston station KILT, Lovett was assigned to cover the war in South Vietnam at the age of twenty-five. By 1968 Dan had joined KTRH radio in Houston as a sports reporter and became the on-air sports anchor for KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate in Houston.
By 1974, Dan was on his way to New York City as sports anchor for the original Channel 7 Eyewitness News on WABC-TV, as well as hosting a daily network radio sportscast for ABC. Dan was one of the original sports broadcasters on WFAN in New York before returning to ABC in 1988 with KGO-TV in San Francisco.
Lovett was voted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2003.view less