Lesley Visser Has a Long And Distinguished Career In Sports Broadcasting
Who is Lesley Visser?
Lesley Visser is an American sportscaster, Radio-TV Personality, and Sportswriter. She is the greatest female sportscaster in history, having received an overwhelming distinction in the last forty years. The groundbreaking pioneer is honored in eight different Halls of Fame as the first-ever woman inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Visser is credited with an impressive number of “firsts” in her long and distinguished career in sports broadcasting. So, it’s safe to say that she not only paved the way for female sportscasters, but she invented the industry as a whole.
Lesley Visser Was Born in Massachusetts
Visser is 70 years old as of 2023. She was born on September 11, 1953, in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. Her mother was a teacher by profession while her father was an engineer. Her mother supported her precious dream and she often credits her for encouraging her in her early years.
Lesley Visser Education
Visser received her high school diploma at South Hadley High School and later enrolled at Boston College where she majored in English.
Lesley Visser Husband
Visser married her husband, Robert “Bob” Cranston Kanuth in July 2011 in Cambridge Mass. Their wedding which was held at the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church at Harvard was presided over by The Rev. Dr. Dorothy A. Austin.
Robert is the proprietor of the Grand Bahama Island hotel known as Pelican Bay Suites. He launched the Washington-based brokerage Cranston Securities, which he sold in 1987 after working there until 1988.
Lesley Visser’s Salary and Net Worth
Visser’s annual salary is estimated to be roughly $1 million. Her wages have increased steadily over the years thanks to her passion and dedication to this field. Her net worth is in the region of $10 million and she has created a sustainable livelihood from her career which spans over 4 decades.
Who is Lesley Visser’s Ex-Husband?
Lesley married her now ex-husband, Dick Stockon in 1983 and divorced in 2010. The reasons for their divorce are not known at the moment. After going their separate ways, Lesley continued to use her birth name professionally.
Lesley Visser’s Distinguished Career in Broadcasting
Visser has covered international affairs for 47 years, starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 up to Thanksgiving in 2022, when she accepted an invitation from the US State Department to address young women in landlocked Uzbekistan.
She started her career at the Boston Globe in 1974, after she was awarded a Carnegie Foundation Grant, which was presented to just 20 women in the country who desired to work in industries dominated by males. She became the first female NFL reporter two years later when the Boston Globe hired her—at a period when credentials for media prohibited women or children in the press box.
Visser claims that there were only three professions available to women in the 1960s: homemakers, teachers, and nurses. Therefore, expressing her desire to become a sportswriter was like saying that she wanted to visit the moon.
However, Visser fulfilled her dream of one day becoming a sportswriter by combining talent, tenacity, and a lot of humor. She would go on to become the most renowned female sportscaster of all time as well as the first and only female inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Lesley, who has worked for CBS for 47 years, is in her 30th year there as a contributor to “We Need To Talk,” the network’s first all-female sports show. She is one of the “Five Ideal Dinner Guests” according to GQ, and one of the “Women We Love” according to Esquire Magazine.
