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Greg Tanner is a television producer, presenter and journalist from London, England. He is most known for fronting basketball programmes, being the editor of FadeAway magazine (later known as MVP Magazine), and setting up Streetball.co.uk, a website covering street basketball that achieved notoriety in the early 2000s.
Career
Producing and directing
In 2007, Tanner produced and presented UKTV Slam, 15 one-hour magazine programmes for Britain's second biggest non-terrestrial broadcaster. The series culminated in a four-hour live broadcast of the Euroleague finals, with Tanner reporting from Athens.
In 2008, Tanner presented and helped to produce (for Cheerleader Productions) two basketball documentaries for Channel 4. The first, Midnight Madness, was a 90-minute feature about a Nike-sponsored, nationwide summer basketball event. It involved shooting across the UK and in Miami, Florida.
In November 2008, Tanner presented "Team GB: Road To Eurobasket" – a 60-minute documentary following the Great Britain basketball team as they tried to qualify for the Eurobasket tournament for the first time.
In May 2010, Tanner presented features for Sky Sports' coverage of the Euroleague Final Four in Paris.
Away from his basketball activities, Tanner has worked as a television news producer and reporter. He began his career at London Tonight and worked with ITN as a producer on the ITV News Channel. He went freelance 2004 before joining Bloomberg in London in 2015. Tanner has lived in Dubai since 2017, where he is now Head of Multimedia for The National.
Basketball247.co.uk
In May 2000, Tanner set up the website Streetball.co.uk which became Basketball247.co.uk in 2008 – broadening its remit from just covering streetball to more mainstream basketball. He has traveled the world covering events – from the Euroleague to the NBA to Streetball.
References
- "UK basketball site set to launch". Revolution magazine. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2009.