Zubin Mehenti
Zubin Mehenti
Zubin Mehenti born in New Jersey, USA on 5th, August 1978. Zubin came into the spotlight after he began working for ESPN as their Sports commentator.
Early Life
Zubin was born in New Jersey, United States on 5 August 1978 under the zodiac sign of Leo, holding American nationality but is of Indian Americans descent, as bot h of his parents are from India
His parents moved to the US from India to seek better opportunities and he thanked them for doing so as the country was very kind to them and offered them more than India ever could.
After he matriculated from one of the local high school, he enrolled at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political science.
Personal
One way or another, sports is the main thing in his life it resembles the Sun and he life rotates around it.
When he is not in the office, he enjoys going for a run, and while other people prefer to listen to music, he listens to sports talk shows on the radio, he enjoys reading, generally one of the sports magazines or newspapers.
After he left college he served as Melinda Murphy’s producer at his first job at WPIX TV station based in New York he stated that the woman changed his life, as she answered every question he had to ask about being a reporter and an anchor. She pointed him in the right direction through the course of years, and even though they haven’t seen or heard from each other in quite a while, he is still very thankful to her – Melinda worked as a CBS News correspondent, but has now left the broadcasting industry and is living in Thailand.
While he was attending the second year of studies at the Rutgers University, the university’s football team was one of the worst, as it finished the season with a 0-11 score and they finished their next season with a 5-6 score.
After that season ended, the team’s head coach Terry Shea was praised for the result and was named the Big East Coach of the Year which was somewhat funny because he only won five out of 11 games – Zubin stated how making Terry the Big East Coach of the Year just showed how low the expectations during that season were.
Even though Zubin thought that he was unlikely to see the team in Super Bowl, Greg Schiano, the next head coach of the university’s team made it happen, as he led them to five bowl games in a row and got them to NFL. Zubin described his affection towards the head coach Greg Schiano – ‘I kid you not, if Derek Jeter, Landon Donovan, Kobe Bryant, Peyton Manning and Greg Schiano were all on campus visiting the same day, I would rather spend one minute with Schiano than an hour with any of the others.’
Career
Soon after his graduation, he started his career in journalism, working as a producer for the WPIX station which is based in New York – he didn’t stay with them for long, as he moved to WMGM-TV station in New Jersey as their weekend sportscaster.
His next job was forWOI TV station based in West Moines in Iowa – he worked as their weekend sportscaster as well, and was part of the team from 2001 to 2005 when he switched to Fox’s KDVR TV station in Denver and stayed with them for six years.
Even though he was already happy with his career KDVR dreams came true once he started working for the ESPN Network in 2011, and has been hosting their “SportsCenter” flagship program at 7 p.m. ever since.
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is a US pay TV sports channel owned by a shared company of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications called ESPN Incorporated – the company was first launched in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen his son Scott Rasmussen and friend Ed Egan.
The network’s offices are located in Bristol in Connecticut while they also broadcast from their offices around the US including Miami, New York City, Seattle, and Los Angeles. John Skipper[3] used to serve as the chairman of ESPN from 2012 until he resigned in December 18 2017 and was replaced by James Pitaro on 5 March 2018. There are a lot of controversies surrounding the network but the people consider it to be normal as ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks in the US – it goes by the slogan ‘The worldwide leader in sports’.
He has been hosting the “SportsCenter” (SC) ever since he joined the network in 2011.
SC is a daily sports news TV program which used to broadcast only once per day but now airs up to twelve times per day – it brings updates and best moments from all the major sports events as well as comments, analyses, and news about the most important events happening in the world of sports.
The show first aired on 7 September 1979 and since then, over 50,000 new episodes have been aired which beats every other program on American TV – it broadcasts from the ESPN’s studios located in Bristol in Connecticut and from Los Angeles in California.
Net Worth
Zubin’s current net worth is estimated to be over $2 million while he is said to have an annual salary of a minimum $80,000.[1]