After nine years with ESPN, broadcast journalist and former Islander Steve Bunin has accepted a new position with Comcast SportsNet in Houston, Texas.

Bunin will be the lead anchor for the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. editions of “SportsNet Central,” and he will serve as a reporter for “CSN Houston.”

Prior to accepting his new position with Comcast SportsNet Houston, Bunin was a broadcast anchor for ESPN and frequently hosted the Emmy Award-winning program “Outside the Lines,” ESPN’s flagship sports news program, “SportsCenter,” as well as “NFL Live,” “Baseball Tonight” and “ESPNEWS.”

Bunin is a 1992 graduate of Mercer Island High School and a 1996 graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.