Biographies

Blake Olson

Blake Olson
Altitude Television Reporter and Host

Blake Olson joined Altitude Sports & Entertainment as a Studio Host and Reporter in 2007. Here’s where you will see him on Altitude this year: Nuggets Pre-game and Post-game shows (Studio Host), High School Football (Color Commentator), College Football Summit (Host), College Football and Basketball broadcasts (Color and Play-be-Play), Golf at Altitude (Reporter), and as a Nuggets Feature Reporter on the George Karl Show.

Blake Olson comes to Altitude with a long history of broadcast experience in sports. While attending Troy University in Troy, Alabama, he served as the Sports Director at WTSU, the campus television station. After graduating from Troy University, Olson spent three years as the Sports Director at KLTV Channel 7 in Tyler, TX then moved up to Dallas, TX where he spent five years at KTVT Channel 11 as a Sports Reporter/Anchor.

Most recently, he spent four years at KWGN Channel 2 as a Sports Reporter/Anchor Reporter and five years at KUSA Channel 9 as a Sports Reporter/Anchor.

Blake lists his hobbies as spending time with his family, enjoying political discussions, dablling in drawing and design, and listening to R & B and Gospel music. He is proud to be a member of the Altitude team and said that working with the Nuggets was a “dream come true”. Blake and his wife Yvette reside in the Denver area and Blake says that he is blessed with the greatest wife, children, brothers, sisters-in-law and parents.

Favorite sports movie: Rudy

Favorite overall movie: Office Space

Favorite sports book: The Mike Shanahan Story

Favorite book (overall): The Bible

Favorite sports moment: Superbowl XXXII

Favorite band: Kirk Franklin

The best thing about working at Altitude: The People

If you could meet one person living or dead, who would it be?: Jesus

Favorite moment/memory of a home team: Any Denver Nuggets win.

Your first childhood career aspirations were: To be a coach like my dad.