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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/for_storm_extra_sleep_and_famil
 Gail Shister
TVNewser Columnist
Hannah Storm 's new job at ESPN comes with a bonus — 20 minutes' extra Z-time.
But at 4 a.m., who's counting?
As co-anchor of ESPN's new morning "SportsCenter," Storm says she'll get up at 4:30 a.m. instead of 4:10, as she did for the past five years on CBS's "Early Show."
Then it's a 1 hour, 20-minute commute from "the far reaches of Connecticut" to ESPN HQ in Bristol for the 9 a.m.-to-noon "SC," to launch in August. Like any good jock, Storm labels her co-host "a player to be named later."
After five years of vampire hours — and bloodletting, for that matter — at CBS, why would any sane mortal choose the same shift somewhere else?
"I want to be home when my kids get off the bus," says Storm, 45, in an interview a few hours after yesterday's announcement. "I won't compromise on not being there when the kids are home. I take my family life first, then work backwards from there."
Storm and her husband, NBC golf announcer Dan Hicks , have three daughters, ages 7, 9 and 11.
During her previous sports career, at NBC and CNN, Storm worked all hours and was constantly on the road. In '02, when her eldest was about to start kindergarten, Storm promised her she would take a day job.
The day job ended suddenly in December, when CBS told her she was out. She says the network offered her another post "anchoring and reporting," but she passed. No details, except it wasn't ... |
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