Derrin Horton is an American sportscaster based in

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. He is a sports anchors for KTLA. Horton has also been a play-by-play announcer and anchor for

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and

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Early life and education

Horton was born in

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, but grew up in

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. He graduated from the Holy Cross High School in

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in 1986. Horton attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and graduated in 1991. At Syracuse, he worked at the student-run

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station & Citrus TV, calling

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sports.

Career

Horton became a sportscaster for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles in 1998. This was before the

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duopoly started and KCAL and KCBS consolidated their on-air and production teams. He joined

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at the start of the 2004 NFL season where he currently serves as an anchor, reporter and host. Horton provides in-depth interviews, post-game reports, and sideline reports for the Network. He also serves as the host and narrator for the Network's documentary series ''

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''. Horton was also on an episode of Spike TV's Pros VS. Joes, in which he lost in overtime to

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References

External links

KTLA Profile
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