Career
Jay currently calls late night his home, seen primarily on the 11pm and midnight eastern editions of SportsCenter, and sometimes on the west coast Sportscenter from Los Los Angeles Jay has hosted a variety of shows during his tenure at Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, including Sportscenter, Outside The Lincolnshire, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight, Cold Pizza, First Take, Friday Night Fights, and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Sports Saturday on American Broadcasting Company. Prior to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Harris worked for many years at WPGH-television in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a weeknight news anchor. He also has local morning radio news experience at WAMO-FM, and national news experience at American Urban Radio Networks, also in Pittsburgh.
He also did local radio news at WOWI-FM in Norfolk, Virginia.
Harris is a 1983 graduate of Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. On the February 22, 2008 episode of SportsCenter, Bill Walton presented Harris with a cake, to the surprise of Harris. Walton also noted that Harris shares the same birth date with famed basketball player Julius Erving.