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While at Comcast SportsNet, he has reported from major events, including the 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star game in Denver, and Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami.
During his first three years at CSN, Burke anchored SportsRise, a weekday morning highlight-driven sportscast. In 1998, he co-hosted the Parade All-America High School Basketball Show which aired on Fox SportsNet.
Burke first began at NBA TV in October 1999 as a weekend host. His primary duty since then has been to host the NBA TV studio show. He also has hosted The NBA Beat, an interactive call-in show that was based at the NBA Store in New York.
Burke also anchored and reported during NBA TV's around-the-clock coverage of the NBA All-Star Game in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
During the 2000-2001 NBA season, he served as courtside host for the first-ever live webcast of a major professional sporting event in the United States, when he guided viewers through an NBA regular season game between the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks in Dallas.
Before joining Comcast SportsNet, Burke worked at WBIS-TV in New York in 1997.
Before that, from September 1988 to January 1997, he worked as a sports anchor and reporter at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. He began at WCUA as a weekend sports anchor before becoming the 11 p.m. sports anchor from 1991-96.
While at WCAU, Burke reported from the Winter Olympics in 1992 and 1994 in Albertville, France, and Lillehammer, Norway, respectively.
He also hosted the Randall Cunningham Show with the Eagles quarterback from 1991-95, and he earned a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award as Best Host in 1993.
Ron Burke was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He earned a B.A. in Communication Arts in 1985 from James Madison University. Currently, he lives in suburban Philadelphia.

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