
In May 2011, Elliott joined the team at ABC's Good Morning America following the departure of previous news anchor Juju Chang. When ESPN began airing SportsCenter live every weekday morning on August 11, 2008, Elliott was paired as an anchor with Hannah Storm for the first three hours of the programming block beginning at 9:00 a.m. After Classic Now was canceled, Elliott began contributing to ESPN the Magazine and.

He also started appearing as a co-anchor on ESPNEWS and reporting for SportsCenter. On ESPN Classic, Elliott hosted the short-lived Classic Now, which aired from June 2005 to March 2006. Career ESPN career Įlliott first joined ESPN in 2004 as a panelist for Around the Horn and Jim Rome Is Burning, as well as serving as guest co-host for Cold Pizza on ESPN2. After graduating from Columbia, Elliott worked for Sports Illustrated for six years, covering events in most major sports. He began there in comedy development and later worked in physical production. He worked in television as a producer for Galaxy Productions before moving onto 20th Century Fox. He then moved on to graduate school at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned a Master of Science degree in 1999. Įlliot worked as a stringer for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He graduated from UCSB in 1993 with a B.A. He originally enrolled at UC Santa Barbara in hopes of joining the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's water polo team, but instead ended up working at the university paper, The Daily Nexus. Īfter graduating from Loyola High School of Los Angeles, Elliott attended the University of California, Santa Barbara. When he was 13, his father came out as gay at the time of his parents' divorce. He was adopted by Charles Elliott and Toni Jordan and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

"And look, I've already made my first mistake," he pointed out. At 5:11, he went from the first slide in his presentation, the Almanac page, right to the Five Day Forecast. Sullivan said he "hails from Michigan, most recently in Los Angeles and now in New York." "And I live in New Jersey," Elliott added.įor his debut, Elliott was generally very smooth but he made one error early.

and he said, "I'm so happy to be here." He was welcomed at various times by anchors Brendan Keefe (filling in for Maurice DuBois) and Kate Sullivan but it wasn't until 6:09 before they mentioned where he comes from. "Weathercaster" John Elliott debuted on CBS 2 News today.
