Casey Pratt is a producer, senior producer, editor, and sports journalist for ABC 7; his main assignment is with the

Oakland A's The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The te ...

. He covers other Bay Area teams including the 49ers.

Career

Pratt worked as a sports producer, news editor, and media manager at ABC 7 from 2006 to 2009 following college graduation. He later worked for Comcast Sportsnet (CSN) and appeared on shows including ''Chronicle Live'', ''A's Pregame Live'', and ''A's Postgame Live''. While at CSN, he was an A's Insider and in 2010 won an area Emmy in the "Sports—Regularly scheduled daily or weekly program" category for his work on ''A's Final Cut''. He was nominated for another area Emmy in 2013 in the "Sports-One-Time Special" category as a segment producer for ''Forgotten Destiny'', and again in 2015 in "Sports—Feature segment" as the producer of ''First Pitch for Diego''. He returned to ABC 7 in 2016 and in 2019 began hosting the weekly podcast ''With Authority'' alongside

Larry Beil Larry Beil (born ) is an American sportscaster. Biography From 1996 to 1998, he was an anchor on '' SportsCenter'', the flagship program of ESPN. Beil, who graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi, introduced a new catch phrase after showin ...

. He won a Group MVP Award in 2018 from the Disney—ABC Television Group and was the first ever ABC 7 employee to do so. He once did a backflip on a trampoline.

Education and personal life

Pratt was born in

San Diego, California San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United Stat ...

. He grew up as a 49ers fan in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

. He graduated from

San Ramon Valley High School San Ramon Valley High School is a four-year public high school located in the East Bay neighborhood of Danville, California, United States. It is a part of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. It is a National Blue Ribbon school from th ...

and received his BA in journalism from

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...

. He lives in

Danville, California The Town of Danville is located in the San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, California. It is one of the incorporated municipalities in California that use "town" in their names instead of "city". The population was 43,582 at the 2020 census ...

with his wife Danielle and their daughter.

References

External links

Casey Pratt’s Blog Archive
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