Back to Previous page
Jon Kelley Headshot

Jon Kelley Biography

Jon Kelley co-hosts "Extra's" one-hour weekend edition and is a primary correspondent for the daily show.

Categories: Television Personalities
Booking Fee Range: Contact booking agent for fee info   (About Fees)
Speaker Travels From:  Please Contact

Kelley joined the series in 2001 after a diverse broadcast career spanning more than 15 years in news, sports and entertainment.

Before joining "Extra," Kelly served as the main anchor for the Fox Sports Network's "The National Sports Report," and the lead anchor for the weekly series, "Baseball Today."  Prior to Fox, Kelley was the lead sports anchor on the NBC owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV in Chicago.

During his eight years in Chicago, Kelley was widely regarded as one of the region's top sports anchors and directors.  In addition to his nightly sportscasts, Kelley hosted "Sports Sunday," WMAQ-TV's half-hour, expanded sports highlights program. There he shared the anchor desk with some of the city's most dynamic sports and entertainment personalities, including NBA rebounding star Dennis Rodman and "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno.  Kelley joined WMAQ-TV as a sports reporter and weekend anchor in April 1991.

While at WMAQ-TV, Kelley was part of a sports team that earned such prestigious awards as the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism and an Illinois Broadcasters Association Silver Dome Award for Best Sportscast in 1996.  In 1997, Kelley won the Chicago/Midwest Emmy award for producing and anchoring his hour-long special highlighting the Chicago Bulls' quest for a fifth championship.
 
Kelley has also done stints as a sports reporter and weekend sports anchor at WDAF-TV, Channel 4, the Fox affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked as a news reporter at KMTV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska.  He began his career as a weekend sports anchor and reporter at KTIV-TV in Sioux City, Iowa.

Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelley played four seasons as a running back for the University of Nebraska before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism.  He signed as a free agent with the Denver Broncos in 1988 before embarking on a broadcasting career.

Kelley is the co-author of the book "Breaking Into Broadcasting," a guide to landing one's first (or next) on-air job in television.



Contact agent about booking Jon Kelley

Request Info
Check Availability
* Required fields

  • Speaker
  • *
  • Calender
  • *
  • *
  • News
  • Videos
 
  • Unfortunately, there are no News Items currently available for this speaker.
Unfortunately, there are no Videos currently available for this speaker.
Our Speaking Agents may be able to help you with the following:

Jon Kelley Speakers Bureau: Biography, Booking Fees and Agency Info

Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Jon Kelley and other top speakers and celebrities

Find top-rated keynote speakers, corporate entertainers and famous personalities like Jon Kelley

Booking Agency-related Disclaimer

Fee Information: Booking Fees to hire speakers and celebrities are determined based on a number factors and often change without notice. Some factors include: speakers schedule, length of presentation, location of event, market conditions, availability and interest. Fee Ranges listed on this website are intended to serve only as a guideline. For the most current celebrity fees or to check availability, please contact a booking agent.

Please Note: All American Speakers Bureau acts only as an entertainment broker/producer for corporate functions, private engagements and special events. All American Speakers Bureau does not claim or represent itself as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Jon Kelley or any artists or celebrities on this website.

All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, private events, public relations campaigns, promotions, commercials and product endorsements.

Profiles listed on this website are provided as a resource to our clients, which are meeting and event planners and other buyers of talent in order to provide them with the widest variety and selection of available talent. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read about the All American Speakers Bureau Advantage.

Due to the volume of emails and calls we receive, we can no longer respond to inquiries related to any of the following:

  • Schedules of upcoming public appearances
  • Contact info for artists or requests to forward messages.
  • Artist's TV, stage or film projects or representation
  • Requests for artists to donate items for auctions, etc.
  • Media requests for print, radio or TV interviews.
  • Non-paying or expenses only fundraisers.
  • Any inquiry not related to hiring talent for paid engagements

Related Tags: Find More Information on booking Jon Kelley for appearances, speaking engagements, endorsements/spokesperson, appearance fees, booking agency contact info, biography of Jon Kelley, Contact an artist booking talent agent find a speakers bureau that can book Jon Kelley, speaker booking agency for Jon Kelley, list of similar speakers and celebrities for hire, what is the cost to book a top 10 motivational speaker, musician, comedian or famous athlete.