Fran Charles

Charles in 2012.

Fran Charles is an American television presenter for MLB Network, formerly for NFL Network.

Career

Charles received his Master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism after completing his Bachelor's degree in Communication at Stanford University.

Charles began his career in broadcasting in St. Louis, Missouri as an overnight reporter, news writer and assignment editor at KSDK-TV. A year later, he became a weekend sports anchor at WDTN in Dayton, Ohio. After three years in Dayton, Charles became the weekend sports anchor at WHDH-TV in Boston.

Charles served as the blow-by-blow announcer for the HBO Sports series Boxing After Dark from 2000 to 2007 and has also worked on KO Nation, HBO Pay-Per-View Boxing and World Championship Boxing.

From 2002 to 2006, Charles was the host of the weekly golf show, PGA Tour Sunday on USA Network, serving as lead anchor for studio segments during PGA Tour events.

Additionally within the NBC family of networks, Charles was an anchor and reporter for NBC Sports, where he anchored the weekend Sportsdesk show and provided live reports and interviews for NBA on NBC. He also anchored sports at the WNBC in New York while working at NBC Sports.

Charles joined NFL Network at the start of the 2006 season and shares duties as host of NFL Total Access with Rich Eisen. Beginning in 2010, Charles hosts NFL GameDay Final, joining Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin to cap off all of Sunday’s action with the latest highlights, interviews and analysis from each game. During NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football schedule, Charles, alongside analysts Kurt Warner, Sterling Sharpe, Jay Glazer, Brian Billick and Jim Mora, hosts Thursday Night Kickoff Presented by Sears from Los Angeles. He also is the studio host for NFL Network's coverage of the Arena Football League.

Charles was featured in EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 as the main host of “The Extra Point”, a weekly recap show that broke down the highs and lows in a network-style show. Alex Flanagan was his co-host.

Charles made MLB Network debut as studio host during the 2013 World Baseball Classic on March 9.^[1]

References

↑ "Fran Charles joins MLB Network's On-Air Talent Lineup". News (MLB.com). March 4, 2013.

External links

Fran Charles at the Internet Movie Database
Fran Charles Bio at hbo.com

NFL Network

On-air talent

Current	Brian Baldinger Judy Battista Brian Billick Tiffany Blackmon Albert Breer Bucky Brooks Paul Burmeister Erin Coscarelli Stacey Dales Dave Dameshek Jeff Darlington Charles Davis Terrell Davis Jamie Dukes Rich Eisen Heath Evans Michael Fabiano Marshall Faulk Alex Flanagan Jay Glazer Dennis Green Rebecca Haarlow Scott Hanson Elliot Harrison Michael Irvin Daniel Jeremiah Kimberly Jones Aditi Kinkhabwala Andrea Kremer Rhett Lewis Steve Mariucci Mike Mayock Willie McGinest Randy Moss Brad Nessler Bob Papa Adam Rank Ian Rapoport Lindsay Rhodes Deion Sanders Sterling Sharpe Andrew Siciliano Jason Smith Matt Smith Melissa Stark Amber Theoharis Kurt Warner Solomon Wilcots Ari Wolfe Steve Wyche

Former	Jennifer Allen Marcus Allen Bobby Beathard Michelle Beisner Fran Charles Butch Davis Spero Dedes Kara Henderson Derrin Horton Seth Joyner Lincoln Kennedy Jason La Canfora Michael Lombardi Mike Martz Jim E. Mora Ken Norton, Jr. Glenn Parker Bill Patrick Mike Pereira Molly Qerim Dan Reeves Warren Sapp Danyelle Sargent Adam Schefter Darren Sharper Emmitt Smith Tom Waddle Rod Woodson Nicole Zaloumis

Programs

Current	America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions A Football Life Finding Giants NFL Classics NFL GameDay NFL RedZone NFL Replay NFL Scoreboard NFL Top 10 NFL Top 100 NFL Total Access Path to the Draft Playbook Thursday Night Football

Former	College Football Now College Scoreboard Football America NFL AM NFL Cheerleader Playoffs NFL Films Game of the Week Point After Put Up Your Dukes

MLB Network

Current personalities	Greg Amsinger (2009–) Scott Braun (2012–) Eric Byrnes (2011–) Sean Casey (2009–) Fran Charles (2013–) Bob Costas (2009–) Ron Darling (2013–) Ryan Dempster (2014–) Mark DeRosa (2013–) Tim Flannery (2015–) Robert Flores (2016–) Cliff Floyd (2013–) Peter Gammons (2010–) Jon Heyman (2009–) Jim Kaat (2009–) Brian Kenny (2011–) Al Leiter (2009–) Mike Lowell (2012–) Joe Magrane (2009–) Pedro Martínez (2015–) Kevin Millar (2010–) Kelly Nash (2015–) Dan O'Dowd (2015–) Carlos Peña (2014–) Dan Plesac (2009–) Harold Reynolds (2009–) Billy Ripken (2009–) Chris Rose (2010–) Ken Rosenthal (2009–) Chris Russo (2014–) Sam Ryan (2011–) Paul Severino (2011–) Lauren Shehadi (2012–) Joel Sherman (2013–) John Smoltz (2010–) Dave Valle (2009–) Matt Vasgersian (2009–) Tom Verducci (2009–) Heidi Watney (2013–) Matt Yallof (2009–)

Former personalities	Larry Bowa (2011–2013) Tony Clark (2009) Joey Cora (2013–2014) Ahmed Fareed (2011–2012) Kristina Fitzpatrick (2013–2014) Ron Gant (2011–2012) Darryl Hamilton (2013–2015) John Hart (2009–2014) Clint Hurdle (2009) Lisa Kerney (2011) Trenni Kusnierek (2009–2011) Barry Larkin (2009–2011) Hazel Mae (2009–2011) Alanna Rizzo (2012–2013) Victor Rojas (2009–2010) Mike Sweeney (2012) Mitch Williams (2009–2014)

Programming	Baseball's Seasons The Club Hot Stove Intentional Talk MLB Tonight Quick Pitch Thursday Night Baseball

Miscellaneous	MLB Network Radio List of personalities List of awards and nominations

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