He has also produced several movies and owns a restaurant in California.
Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner who has amassed a net worth of $20 million. He is best known for his work as a sportscaster for HBO Boxing and as an anchor at many Olympic games. Additionally, he has produced several movies and owns a restaurant in California.
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💰Jim Lampley Net worth: $20 Million
Born on April 8, 1949, Lampley is one of the most accomplished sports broadcasters in America, where he is best known as a boxing commentator for HBO. He embarked on his broadcasting career in 1974, when ABC chose him, along with Don Tollefson, in what they called a talent hunt. It is true that he entered ABC thanks to his youthful looks, but it was his talent that made him cover such events as baseball games, the 1986-87 Indianapolis 500, several Olympics, as well as the program Wide World of Sports. Next, he landed a broadcasting job at CBS in 1987, through 1992, when Lampley moved to NBC. But at the same time, he rose to international stardom for his work on HBO World Championship Boxing show, as well as on the HBO pay-per-view telecast and HBO's program Boxing After Dark.
Through his extensive career, he has built up a huge following and has become one of the few American broadcasters to cover every major sports event worldwide and a record number of 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television. In addition to the above, he starred as himself in the movie Rocky Balboa (2006), and also appeared as co-anchor in the film Blades of Glory (2007). For more of Lampley, you can find his articles on The Huffington Post. Recently, he founded Atticus Entertainment, which collaborates with key people in the film industry like the renowned filmmaker Peter Berg.