Career
Spake contributes to SportsCenter to give pre and post-game reports, and also works as a sideline reporter for Securities and Exchange Commission on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network basketball games as well as college football games. As of 2014 she also works for the newly created Securities and Exchange Commission Network which is owned by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Before coming to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Spake worked at Speed Channel, where she co-hosted National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nation in its second version (June through November 2005) and was a reporter in its first (February through June 2005). She also co-hosted Back Seat Drivers, a talk show, with online columnist Marty Smith.
Her previous on-air jobs included those at WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Carolina Sports and Entertainment Television.
From 2007 to 2014. Spake was a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing pit reporter for the network and contributed to both National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Countdown and National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Now. She would continue this role until Entertainment and Sports Programming Network lost the broadcast rights to National Broadcasting Company Sports beginning with the 2015 season.
On August 13, 2013, Spake agreed to a multi-year contract extension with Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Before becoming an on-air reporter, she worked for Nickelodeon, Columbia Broadcasting System (on The Early Show with Bryant Gumbel), and Music Television as a production assistant. Spake grew up in Florida.
She is a graduate of Piper High School and Florida Atlantic University.
In 1999 she served as an intern for the Miami-based radio talk show host Neil Rogers. In 2015 she started a blog www.ShannonSpakeOnline.com.