Chris Warren (born 1 September 1970) is an Australian
television
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presenter/producer and former professional
rugby league
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footballer. He is a son of sports commentator
Ray Warren
Raymond Warren OAM (born 11 June 1943) is a retired Australian sports commentator, known for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. He is known as the "Voice of Rugby League", and called 99 State of O ...
.
Early years
Warren was born in
Sydney
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, attended Marist Brothers Parramatta and later earned a
Bachelor of Commerce
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with a major in
marketing
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.
Playing career
Warren was a Parramatta junior and played in their winning SG Ball side of 1986. He also captained NSW CCC at under 15 and Open ages but missed out on making the Australian Schoolboys side in 1988, although he did win the Commonwealth Bank Cup with Parramatta Marist. Warren played seven seasons in the NSWRL and ARL after making his debut for
Western Suburbs Magpies
The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly r ...
in 1990. He was a foundation member of the
Western Reds
The Western Reds were a rugby league football club based in Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 1992 as the Western Reds, they entered into the Australian Rugby League competition in 1995 before defecting to the rival Super League competition i ...
squad in 1995 but did not make any first grade appearances. He retired from playing in 1997 and joined Tennis West as their Marketing Manager before heading to the UK in 1998.
Television and radio career
Warren left Australia to join satellite television channel
Sky Sports
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'
Rugby league
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team in the
United Kingdom
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in February 1999 as a
presenter
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People
* News presenter, person who presents news during a new ...
; he was the regular host of the channel's live coverage of Australia's
National Rugby League
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and
State of Origin series
The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.
Referred to as “Australian sport's greatest rivalry”, the ...
. Warren also occasionally presented the channel's rugby league magazine show
Boots 'n' All
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and served as a sideline reporter at international matches.
Warren combined his presenting duties with a public announcing/match day programme editor and marketing role at
Super League
The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...
club
London Broncos
The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England.
The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...
until the end of 2006, when Sky Sports lost the UK rights to show Australian rugby league action to rival UK satellite sports channel
Setanta Sports
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. He vacated his position at Harlequins when he joined Setanta although returns to the club on most match-days as the MC.
Warren joined Setanta as a producer in April 2007, overseeing their NRL & AFL content. He was also a Presenter on Setanta Sports News, a rival to Sky Sports News which was produced by ITN.
Warren joined IMG in April 2008 as its Rugby League Media Manager.
After the collapse of Setanta Sports in July 2009, Warren joined ESPN as a freelance producer, overseeing the production of their AFL and NRL programming.
In June 2010 Warren started presenting on
Fox Sports
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The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the Fo ...
News, Australia. In 2011 Chris was also the sideline reporter for Fox Sports Rugby League coverage. Chris does sideline commentary for the 2GB Rugby League Continuous Call team.
Warren became the new Host of Fox Sports NRL Summertime in 2012/13. He left Fox Sports in July 2013.
Warren joined Radio 2GB as its sports news reporter for the Alan Jones Breakfast Show in January 2014 through to December 2020.
He’s been calling NRL games for the 2GB Continuous Call Team since 2014.
Joined new Sydney Sports Radio station SEN 1170 as a presenter in December 2020.
See also
Warren leaves Harlequins - from www.quins.co.uk
References
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1970 births
Rugby league players from Sydney
Australian rugby league players
Western Suburbs Magpies players
Australian television presenters
Living people
Australian sports journalists
Rugby league hookers