page_title: Tony Kornheiser
section_title: Pardon the Interruption
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Kornheiser / Television career / Pardon the Interruption
caption_attribution_description: Pardon The Interruption
context_page_description: Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host and former sportswriter and columnist. Kornheiser is best known for his endeavors in three forms of media: as a writer for The Washington Post from 1979 to 2001, as a co-host of ESPN's Emmy Award-winning sports debate show Pardon the Interruption since 2001, and as the host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, a radio show and podcast. Longtime ESPN executive John Walsh once declared that "in the history of sports media, [Kornheiser] is the most multitalented person ever."
context_section_description: Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, BT Sport ESPN, XM, and Sirius satellite radio services, and as a downloadable podcast. On PTI, Kornheiser and co-host Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories of the day in "sports... and other stuff" (as Kornheiser put it in the show's original promo).
  Kornheiser's lively segments with Wilbon on the radio and on Full Court Press – which mirrored their actual discussions in the newsroom of The Washington Post – sparked the idea for PTI well before the end of his run at ESPN Radio. The show won a Sports Emmy Award for best Daily Outstanding Studio Show in 2010, 2017, and 2019.
caption: Kornhesier on PTI in 2010
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