Gabriela Hill

Gabriela Hill – Biography

A veteran Mexican-American TV personality, Gabriela has 27 years of TV broadcasting experience as a Spanish-language news and sports anchor, reporter, and commentator.

Gabriela started out in television by hosting children’s programs in Mexico. She then moved to Texas to become a news anchor and reporter at Telemundo and Univision affiliates for 8 years.

Gabriela covered over 3000 stories while KXLN TV Canal 45 was broadcasting LIVE news in Spanish for the first time.

Gabriela received the excellence in journalism award by the Texas Council of Welfare board in 1991.

Following her dream, Gabriela kept going and landed her first sports TV role in 1995 Gabriela would soon become the first Spanish-language female sports reporter in the U.S. when she joined Univision Sports in 1996.

At Univision, Gabriela was the sideline reporter for Major League Soccer (MLS) live telecasts and she was part of the Univision news team that won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in 1996.

Gabriela traveled more than 200,000 miles over 2 years to cover a different sports event each week, including the NFL, MLB, NBA, and championship boxing matches.

Moving up in her career, Gabriela landed in South Florida at start-up Pan American Sports Network (PSN), where she enjoyed some of the most productive years of her television career. Gabriela had the opportunity to broadcast more than 300 sports programs including live coverage of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and the 2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup soccer tournament. "For the first time in my career, I was able to scream GOOOAL!" said Gabriela.

Gabriela moved on to ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut just prior to the launch of ESPN Deportes as a 24-hour Spanish-language TV network serving the U.S. Hispanic market in 2002. She was announcing several sports shows and later became known as the voice of Poker in Latin America besides calling every WSOP Main Event Final Table from 2003 to 2008, Gabriela voiced over 300 hours of poker television.

In July 2008. She played a major role in leading FullTiltPoker's marketing push in Spanish-speaking Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market.

In 2009 she hosted 65 Poker after Dark: Director's Cut on the Azteca 7 free-to-air broadcast TV network in Mexico. Over 2 million viewers tuned in each week to watch each episode, doubling the expected One Million rating