- Jim Ross
James William Ross (born January 3 1950) is a professional wrestling announcer and executive currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its "RAW" brand as their play-by-play commentator. To many peers, Ross is considered to be one of the best wrestling announcers in history and has been called the voice of World Wrestling Entertainment. He is better known as Good Ol JR or simply JR to his fans.
- Jerry Lawler
Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949) is an American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator, known throughout the wrestling world as "The King". He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working and wrestling on its "RAW" brand as the color commentator. He also wrestles and occasionally commentates for the Memphis Wrestling promotion.
- Bob Sheppard
Robert Leo Sheppard, (born October 12, 1910 in Richmond Hill, New York) has been the public address announcer for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball since 1951, and was for the New York Giants of the National Football League from 1956 to 2006. Since joining the Yankees, he has announced over 4,500 Major League Baseball games, and has worked 22 World Series. The first Yankee lineup Sheppard announced contained 6 future Hall of Famers: Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, …
- Ed McMahon
Edward "Ed" Peter Leo McMahon, Jr. (born March 6, 1923) is a popular American comedian, game show host, announcer and television personality most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer on the "Tonight Show", from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of the talent show "Star Search", from 1983 to 1995.
- Don Pardo
Now known best as the Voice of Saturday Night Live, Don Pardo was the longtime staff announcer at WNBC-TV in New York. This also meant that he did plenty of voice overs for the network. His name and distinct voice became synonymous with the faceless announcer. But he was a really approachable really famous guy. Before his semi-retirement, you could call NBC in New York, as for Don Pardo . , and he'd answer his phone and talk to you until he had to go to work.
- Michael Kay
Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is the main play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees, host of "Centerstage" on the YES Network and the host of "The Michael Kay Show" on WEPN.
- Johnny Olson
John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 - October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer, most notable for announcing 32 game shows from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions, from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in and nearby Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, …
- Gorilla Monsoon
Robert Otto Marella (June 4 1937 - October 6 1999), better known by his stage name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play announcer, and booker. He is famous for his run as one of the great super-heavyweights, and later as the voice of the World Wrestling Federation as announcer, on-screen President, and backstage manager during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Jim Cornette
James ("Jim") Cornette (born September 17, 1961) is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker. Cornette is the former "Commissioner" of Ring of Honor and current "Management Director" of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- Jonathan Coachman
Jonathan William Coachman (born August 12, 1974) also known as "The Coach" is an American professional wrestling personality, college wrestler, basketball player, and football play-by-play announcer and color commentator, and is best known as an occasional wrestler working for World Wrestling Entertainment where he serves as the Interim General Manager on the "RAW" brand.
- Ernie Harwell
Ernie Harwell was born January 25, 1918 in Washington, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University and from there he began his career working as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution. Ernie Harwell also was a regional correspondent for one of the top sports publications, The Sporting News. Ernie Harwell got his first announcing gig for the Atlanta Crackers, which was a minor league baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia between 1901 and 1965.
- Rod Roddy
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 - October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer, best known as the announcer for the popular game show "The Price is Right" from 1986 until his death.
- Mike Lange
Mike Lange is the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Penguins. In 2001, he received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his outstanding work as an NHL broadcaster. A native of Sacramento, California, Lange joined the Penguins as a radio announcer in 1974 after spending time as a commentator for the San Diego Gulls of the Western Hockey League. He left the Penguins after just one season, because the team was in bankruptcy and he had no guarantee of a job.
- Gary Thorne
Gary Thorne (born June 9, 1948 in Bangor, Maine) is a play-by-play announcer for ESPN and ABC, working Major League Baseball, college football and Frozen Four hockey contests. He is also the television play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles.
- Gene Okerlund
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund (born November 29, 1938 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota), is a former American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. A graduate of West Virginia University, Okerlund got his start at an AM talk radio station KOIL-AM 1280 in Omaha, Nebraska as a DJ. He segued out of radio into a position at the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the early 1970s when he occasionally filled in for ailing ring announcer and interviewer Marty O'Neill, …
- Kenny Williams
Kenny Williams (1913-1984) was an American television announcer from the late 1940s to 1980s. He was best known as the announcer of "Hollywood Squares". His other work included many other Heatter-Quigley game shows, including "Gambit" and "High Rollers", and he also appeared on screen as "Kenny the Cop" on "Video Village" and "Shenanigans".
- Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is a former announcer best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment Raw from 1996 to 2003. In addition to his announcing duties, Kelly also hosted the popular webcast "Byte This" ! until his release from the company. Since his release, Kelly has been very vocal about his displeasure with the politics behind the scenes in the WWE, citing Triple H as one of the main factors.
- Howard Finkel
Howard Finkel (born June 7, 1950) is a professional wrestling ring announcer. Hired in 1975 by Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation, "The Fink" was one of the first people brought in to the Vince McMahon's nascent World Wrestling Federation and is widely credited as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s first and longest lasting employee.
- Ralph Kiner
Ralph McPherran Kiner (born October 27, 1922) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current announcer.
- Jeremy Borash
Jeremy Borash (born May 28, 1977 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional wrestling play-by-play commentator, announcer, booker, video producer and website designer. He was heavily involved in the now defunct World Wrestling All-Stars promotion, and has been an influential staff member of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling since its inception in 2002. He is currently a member of the TNA creative team.
- Rich Fields
Rich Fields (born November 30, 1960, in Bay Village, Ohio) is an Emmy-award-winning broadcaster and meteorologist best known for being the announcer of the American television game show "The Price Is Right" since Rod Roddy passed away in 2003. Fields was raised in Avon, Ohio, before moving to Clearwater, Florida, in 1976. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1983 with a degree in broadcasting and had a career as a radio personality, …
- Jack Clark
Jack Clark (December 13, 1921 - July 21, 1988) was an American game show emcee and announcer. He is most noted for his hosting duties on "The Cross-Wits," which ran from December 15, 1975 to September 12, 1980. He started his career in the industry working as an announcer on such shows as "Password" (for which he also occasionally substituted for Allen Ludden), and "Split Second." He also emcee'd "100 Grand," an unsuccessful attempt at reviving the primetime, …
- Bob Murphy
Robert Allan Murphy (September 19, 1924 - August 3, 2004) was an American sportscaster who spent 50 years doing play-by-play of Major League Baseball games on television and radio. The Oklahoman was best-known for announcing the New York Mets, from their inception in 1962 until his retirement in 2003. Murphy made his first appearance in a broadcast booth with the minor league Muskogee, Oklahoma Reds. His first major league job was with the Boston Red Sox in 1954, …
- Don Wilson
Don Wilson (September 1, 1900 - April 25, 1982) was an American announcer and occasional actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of "The Jack Benny Program". Though best known for his comedy work with Benny, Wilson had a background as a sportscaster, covering the opening of the 1932 Olympics. Wilson first worked with Benny on the broadcast of April 6, 1934, …
- Bob Cole
Robert "Bob" Cecil Cole, LL.D (honorary) (born 1933 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian television announcer. Cole has been the primary play-by-play announcer for <i>Hockey Night in Canada</i>; on CBC, usually for Toronto Maple Leafs games, since 1980, when he took over from Bill Hewitt. He began broadcasting hockey on CBC Radio in 1969 and moved to television in 1973 when <i>HNIC</i> expanded its coverage.
- Gene Wood
Eugene Edward Wood (October 20, 1925 - May 21, 2004), was an American television personality and television announcer. He was best known as the announcer of over 20 game shows -- most of which were Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions -- from the late 1960s through the 1990s. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Wood majored in speech and theater at Emerson College. His early career included stand-up comedy, television commercials, …
- Charlie O'Donnell
Charlie O'Donnell (born August 12, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a television announcer best known for his work on "Wheel of Fortune". O'Donnell began his career in 1958, working with Dick Clark on "American Bandstand". This led to several stints as a disc jockey on Los Angeles radio (most notably on legendary Pasadena station KRLA), and later as news anchorman on Los Angeles television station KCOP-TV, …
- Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson is an American announcer and sportscaster, best known for his work in horse racing with ABC Sports and at various race tracks in New York and New Jersey. His signature line — "And "down" the stretch they come!" — is instantly recognizable throughout the sport, and often imitated by comedians, notably David Letterman. From 1972 to 1977, Johnson was the public address announcer for the tracks of the New York Racing Association.
- Bern Bennett
Bern Bennett (born October 19, 1921) is an American radio and television announcer. For nearly sixty years, beginning in 1944, he was a staff announcer at CBS. In the 1940s and 1950s he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows: "Winner Take All", "Beat The Clock", and "To Tell The Truth".
- Jay Stewart
Jay Stewart (real name Jay Fixx, September 6, 1918 - September 17, 1989), was an American television and radio announcer most famous as the announcer on "Let's Make a Deal" and in the 1980s of "Sale of the Century". Stewart was also the primary announcer for all Barry & Enright game shows from 1977 until 1981, including "The Joker's Wild" and "Tic Tac Dough". In 1981, after leaving Barry & Enright Productions, …
- Don Orsillo
Don Orsillo joined NESN in April 2001 as the network's voice of Boston Red Sox baseball. Honored with two New England Emmy Awards, Orsillo was also named the 2005 Massachusetts Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
- Howie Rose
Howard Rose (born 1954) is an American sportscaster with the New York Mets and the New York Islanders for WFAN and Fox Sports New York. Rose grew up a Mets fan, and graduated from Queens College. He also attended Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens. He is known for his signature phrase of "Put it in the books!" after a Mets victory. He worked the television booth until the retirement of long-time Mets radio voice Bob Murphy.
- John Harlan
John Harlan (born in USA) is an American television announcer who has worked on numerous television projects for over 40 years, particularly game and variety shows. He is considered the "prince of announcers" by some critics and fans, for his highly-inflected nasal tones. Perhaps his best-known work was for the Bob Hope specials aired on NBC during the 1960s through the 1980s.
- Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday is a radio personality. His career began during high school in early 1979 in New Jersey. He was the anchor of the Doc & Johnny Morning Show for over 17years, before resigning in March of 2007. Currently, Doc is the arena announcer for the Orlando Predators (AFL). He was also the announcer for "Family Double Dare" in its last season (1992-1993). Other appearances on the airwaves include Clear Channel's 740 The Team and ESPN SportsTalk Radio.
- Chris King
Chris King is currently the NY Ducks radio announcer and announcer of the Islanders post game show. He has been at it for over 20 years.
- John Mason
John Mason is the public address announcer for the Detroit Pistons games at the Palace of Auburn Hills. He is known for his colorful introductions, and is credited with coining the popular chant "Deeeeee-troit basketball!" His flamboyant voice has been requested at many sporting events, and he was chosen to serve as the PA announcer at the 2007 NBA All-Star Game in Las Vagas. Mason is also a legendary radio personality in Detroit.
- Dennis James
Dennis James (August 24, 1917 - June 3, 1997) was an actor, wrestling announcer, sports show host, game show host, newsreel announcer and the first person ever to do a "live" TV commercial (for Wedgewood China) as well as the first videotaped commercial. He was mainly known as the host of game shows such as the NBC daytime revival of "Name That Tune"(1974), …
- Johnny Most
John M. Most was an American sports announcer, known primarily as the raspy radio voice of the Boston Celtics National Basketball Association basketball team from 1953 to 1990. He is most remembered for his excited call of "“Havlicek stole the ball!”" during the final moments of Game 7 of the 1965 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. The play sealed the victory for the Boston Celtics.
- Jim Hall
Jim Hall is the public address announcer for New York Giants football games at Giants Stadium. After serving as the backup to Bob Sheppard since the opening of Giants Stadium, Hall was awarded the position beginning with the 2006 season following Sheppard's retirement from the role. Hall also has served as Sheppard's backup at Yankee Stadium for nearly forty years. Hall was a tenured professor at St. John's University for forty-five years, before retiring in 2004.
- Dan Miller
Dan Miller (born September 30, 1941) grew up in Augusta, Georgia. He is a longtime news anchorman for WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee. He gained fame in the United States as the announcer and sidekick for his buddy and one-time Channel 4 colleague, Pat Sajak, during Sajak's short-lived CBS late-night talk show, "The Pat Sajak Show".