Background
Fowler, Chris was born on August 23, 1962.
Fowler, Chris was born on August 23, 1962.
A graduate of the University of Colorado in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree, Fowler was the first recipient of the Alan Berg Memorial Journalism Scholarship, awarded by the Denver Press Club.
While an undergraduate, Fowler, a Denver-area native, served as a producer and co-host for a weekly magazine program aired over a cable television system in Boulder, Colorado from 1983 to 1985. He also spent two years as sports director at KAIR-Department of Administration and Management, the university"s radio station. From 1982 to 1984, he covered high school sports for the Rocky Mountain News.
Since 1989, Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football. In 2014 he replaced Brent Musburger as the play-by-play announcer for Saturday Night Football on American Broadcasting Company. He was also selected to announce College Football Playoff semifinal games and the College Football National Championship.
Prior to joining Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Fowler spent nearly two years at KCNC-television, then the National Broadcasting Company affiliate in Denver, as a production assistant, a producer/writer and as a sports reporter. In 1984, he worked for several months at KMGH-television in the same city as an intern in the sports department.
Fowler joined Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in July 1986 as the host/reporter of Scholastic Sports America, a stint which lasted two years.
In 1988, he began serving as a college football sideline reporter for two seasons. While on the college football beat, Fowler conducted an exclusive interview with former star University of Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, who was in prison at the time on drug charges. He began as host of the College GameDay football road show in 1990 and expanded to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s other Saturday college football segments in 1991.
Fowler received abuse from Tennessee fans (and he described the reaction as "trailer park frenzy" on a radio show), and GameDay avoided shooting on the Tennessee campus for several years that followed.
Until 2006, he was also the lead studio host of College Basketball on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Fowler has also worked with Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Summer X Games from 1995 to 2000 and the Winter X Games from 1998 to 2000 as well as horse racing broadcasts, including the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championship on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. In addition, he is the head studio anchor for tennis tournaments broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, including Wimbledon, Australian Open, French Open and for the United States Open being broadcast for the first year in 2009 on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. He is also the host of the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Classic show SportsCentury. Fowler is married to former fitness model/instructor Jennifer Dempster, who appeared on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in the 1990s on the show BodyShaping.