Anthony Joseph Bruno (born June 13, 1952) is an American sports

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host. He has worked for national American sports broadcasters including

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, and

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Early life

His father served in both the American and Italian Army where his met Bruno's mother, a Sicilian Native. He has one older sister and one younger sister. He graduated from St. John Neumann High School, then from

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

Radio career

WCAU, KFI, and WIP

Bruno's first talk show was on

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in Philadelphia as the morning host. When WCAU abandoned talk in 1991, Bruno moved to Sports Talk as a co-host of WIP's ''Morning Guys'' show with Angelo Cataldi and Al Morganti. He later joined

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's new

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in 1992 as one of the first hosts. He remained at the network until 2000. In 1996, he stated on air he would walk from Bristol, CT to Syracuse, NY if the Orangemen beat Kansas in that year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament—which they did, by a score of 60–56. He has yet to make that walk.

Fox Sports Radio

In 2000, Bruno moved to Los Angeles, launching the

network. Bruno hosted ''The Tony Bruno Extravaganza'' morning program with

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. During this time, Bruno was frequently a guest host on

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's ''

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''. Prior to heading west to California, Bruno hosted a morning show on 620

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in Tampa.

Sporting News Radio and KNBR

In 2006, he signed with

. ''The Tony Bruno Show'' appeared on Sporting News Radio and on

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weekdays. He hosted there from 2006 to 2008, in the same morning show time slot. He was carried on

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for most of the show's run on Sporting News. Bruno also did a daily half-hour with

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on the ''Gary Radnich Show'' on

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in San Francisco. In January 2008, it was announced that Bruno's show on Sporting News Radio had been cancelled, though KNBR hoped to have him continue working with Radnich. He did return to working with Radnich, until August 1, 2011, when Radnich announced KNBR management has decided to drop the half-hour segment with Bruno after 16 years.

New show and return to Fox Sports Radio

On September 29, 2008, Bruno got a new show called ''Into The Night with Tony Bruno'', which featured his Executive Producer Tim Cates and introduced

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. It first aired live on the West Coast from 7 to 10pm on am 570

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, the top ranked Sports station in Los Angeles. After one month exclusively on KLAC, it was syndicated around the country on November 3. Bruno aired the show from various major sporting events. On July 30, 2009,

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announced it had partnered with The Content Factory to distribute Bruno's show across the Fox Sports Radio network beginning August 10. Bruno's contract was not renewed, and he left in September 2011.

Return to Philadelphia

On January 18, 2010, Bruno, paired with Harry Mayes, and returned to a daily show from noon to 2 PM on ESPN until June 26, 2014. On October 13, 2014, Bruno debuted the ''Tony Bruno Show'' podcast. On January 30, 2015, he announced his return to WIP in Philadelphia. Bruno retired from radio in July 2015 but still continues his live podcast every Wednesday night.

Sirius XM and SportsMap

''The Tony Bruno Show with Harry Mayes'' returned to

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on April 6, 2020, and aired every weekday from 3pm to 6pm EST, on the Dan Patrick Radio channel 211, alongside co-host Harry Mayes. Bruno's program was also among the offerings of the

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Radio Network (the former Sporting News Radio, Yahoo! Sports Radio and SB Nation Radio), after it ended its cross-branding agreements and brought all programming back in-house in July 2020. The show was cancelled by both Sirius XM and SportsMap in late-August 2020 after Bruno disparaged

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(NBA) players as illiterate.

Other work

''Madden NFL''

Bruno is the host of '' EA Sports Radio'', a show that has appeared on the 2005, 2006, and 2007 versions of the ''Madden NFL'' video game. The show has Bruno listing

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and accomplishments from the previous "week" of play. In addition, he "interviews" players and coaches, takes calls from listeners, and even asks trivia questions. On August 26, 2018, within an hour of a mass shooting at a Madden 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, Bruno tweeted the following in response to CNNs reporting: "I'm hearing Madden 19 sucks, but this is a bit much". He apologized soon after, stating that he would "never make light of such a tragedy."

Personal life

Bruno is divorced with three grown children, Anthony, Chris and Deanna. He lived in

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, for 11 years, but has moved back to

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, as of September 2011. He lives with his longtime girlfriend and producer/manager

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruno, Tony American radio sports announcers Radio personalities from Philadelphia Sportspeople from Philadelphia ESPN Radio American people of Italian descent Sirius XM Radio programs People from Los Angeles 1952 births Living people National Hockey League broadcasters