Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is the Mexican American broadcaster. She works as an ESPN news anchor and hosts SportsNation occasionally. Since 2016, Collins has was a part of ESPN. She is the child of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since her age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her land her first position as an assistant to the production team at Univision Miami in which she worked with the producers of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then she was promoted to reporter for The CBS St. Petersburg affiliate following that. In 2009, she relocated into Rio Grande Valley to work as a journalist for KNVO TV 48 Univision & Fox2 News. Covering stories related to drugs and immigration issues from both sides of the Mexico-Texas Border, she served as a news reporter for KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 from 5pm, then as a reporter for news in English at 9 pm and the news anchor was on until 10 pm, and then returned on the Spanish channel. She was also often asked to be anchors for the weather and sports. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate where she took on other responsibility. She did pieces on Major League Baseball's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. In addition, she also hosted and produced Univision 23's Accion Deportiva Extra local sports show. Then, she became the sports host for the morning program that is Despierta America Deportes. The anchor also worked in similar roles on the magazine program of the network Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was born and raised in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. At some point they relocated to Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. She is older than her sister. The family moved in 1992 to Mexico to the US and eventually settled in Miami. The couple divorced within a short time and in 1995, she was married an naval designer by the name of Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died in 2006 of kidney cancer. When on vacation Antonietta spent the time at the house of her sister Canton Ohio. Her older Collins sibling had recently gotten a new job. Antonietta who was in high school having a clear idea of where she wanted her future to be, visited Mount Union University in order to find out if the school suited her. The campus was beautiful as well as offered the level of education she sought. After high school, she graduated and was enrolled in media studies at the college. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of WRMU's 91.1FM station where she worked over the years, became an acquaintance. Mark Bergmann inspired her to be self-confident and his enthusiasm for journalism deeply influenced her. She was determined to fulfill his expectations and never failed him.