Her work in local television included a stint as the weekend sports anchor for
WFAA-TV in Dallas in 1987 and as a news anchor and field reporter for
KMGH-TV in
Denver. She also worked as a news anchor for KTVH-TV in Wichita, Kansas (now
KWCH-DT). She also worked a stint at Detroit's NBC affiliate
WDIV-TV channel 4. Joyce debuted as a reporter for
ESPN at the
1988 Summer Olympics in
Seoul. She also covered for ESPN, the
NFL draft, and the
French Open Tennis Championships. Prior to joining CBS Sports, Joyce hosted
MSG SportsDesk on the
Madison Square Garden Network (1988).
CBS Sports Joyce joined
CBS Sports in August 1989. She made her on-air debut at the
1989 U.S. Open Tennis Championships. She worked three Winter Games for
CBS Sports, serving as co-host of the weekend and Opening and Closing Ceremony coverage at the
1994 Lillehammer Games and the
1998 Nagano Games. Joyce served as co-host of the CBS' weekend coverage during the
1992 Albertville Games. While interviewing USA's
Donna Weinbrecht, after winning a freestyle skiing-moguls gold medal in 1992, Weinbrecht's mother rushed up (midway through the interview) to her daughter and literally knocked Joyce off the air. Andrea Joyce replaced
Greg Gumbel (who in return, replaced
Dick Stockton as the #2 play-by-play man) as studio host for the
Major League Baseball games. Joyce would be joined at the anchor desk by
Pat O'Brien. She also served as field reporter for the
1991 National League Championship Series and
1991 World Series, and at the
1993 World Series, she became the first woman to co-host the network television coverage for a
World Series. Joyce also hosted CBS' early-round coverage of the
1991 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship;
College Football Today (CBS' college football studio show); the
NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Final Four and title-game broadcasts from 1991 to 1994; and the
1990 Heisman Trophy Award show. During her ten years at CBS she covered events ranging from the Final Four to the
US Open Tennis Championships. She also covered the
1990 NBA Playoffs and figure skating. Joyce returned to CBS Sports for their pregame coverage of Super Bowl LVIII and on their show
We Need to Talk.
NBC Sports Joyce joined
NBC Sports in 2000 and has served as a reporter on a number of events for NBC, including
figure skating and
short track speed skating from
Turin in 2006;
gymnastics and
diving from
Athens in 2004;
speed skating in
Salt Lake City at the
2002 Winter Olympics Games; and
diving and
swimming in
Sydney in 2000. She was the only woman to do play-by-play during the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing. During that Olympics, she served as the play-by-play woman for
rhythmic gymnastics and served as a reporter for
gymnastics. She also served as the play-by-play commentator for
rhythmic gymnastics in Athens. In Sydney, Joyce also covered women's
soccer and women's
water polo, in addition to contributing to the Sports Desk. She served as a reporter during NBC's coverage of the 2000 Olympic Diving Trials and the 2000 Olympic Swimming Trials. She also served as a reporter for
NBA on NBC and
WNBA on NBC broadcasts. Joyce currently covers gymnastics and figure skating for NBC Sports as well as anchoring the
NBC Sports Update. In 2010, she served as the reporter for short track and figure skating during the
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC. She again served as a figure skating and short track commentator for NBC during the
2026 Winter Olympics and a commentator for the 2026 Winter Paralympics. ==Personal life==