Melissa Stark | |
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Born |
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
November 11, 1973
Education | The University of Virginia |
Occupation | NFL Network Reporter |
Employer | NFL Network |
Melissa Stark (born November 11, 1973) is an American television personality and sportscaster who works as a reporter for the NFL Network and previously had worked with NBC, which she joined in 2003, primarily at its MSNBC subsidiary. She was also a correspondent for NBC's The Today Show. In the summer of 2008, she anchored MSNBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Prior to NBC, she was best known for her three-year stint as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football. She has also worked as a reporter for ESPN.
Stark has a degree in Foreign Affairs and Spanish from the University of Virginia. While in college, she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
She began her career at WMAR-TV in Baltimore in 1991 as a news intern working on the assignment desk.
Stark was a news intern for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in 1993 and 1994 where she wrote scripts and assembled background information on investigative pieces for health correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot.
Prior to joining ESPN, from 1994–95, Stark was a production assistant and reporter for Virginia Sports Marketing in Charlottesville for the University of Virginia's Coach's TV Show, which aired in all major markets in Virginia.