List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broadcasters
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One of the primary reasons why Los Angeles
was awarded an American League
expansion franchise for the 1961 season was because actor
/singer turned broadcast mogul Gene Autry
wanted to secure radio broadcast rights for the newly planned Los Angeles American League franchise. His KMPC (710 AM, now KSPN
) was the radio home of the Los Angeles Dodgers
, from the time they arrived from Brooklyn, New York in time for the 1958 baseball season, and actually came away from the 1960 Winter Meetings with his own baseball team.
, Los Angeles's ESPN Radio
-operated outlet from the 2003 through 2007 seasons.
In 2006 team owner Arte Moreno purchased his own radio station, KMXE (830 AM), an Orange County, California
-licensed Spanish-language formatted station. By mid-2006, 830 AM's programming was mostly in English (the principal exception being Angels games in Spanish), and the station's call was changed to KLAA. In October 2007, the Angels announced that KWKW would carry games in Spanish, and KLAA will carry Angels games in English, although games that conflict with Anaheim Ducks
games will be transferred to another station.
In time for the 2008 baseball season KLAA-AM became the English-language outlet for Angels games, when their contract with KSPN expired.
In 2009, former Dodger radio flagship KFWB-AM joined the Angels radio network, serving as a co-flagship of sorts alongside KLAA, carrying Monday through Friday games. It provided fans who live in certain parts of the Los Angeles market with a secondary outlet to listen to games.
In 2010, KSPN-AM
AM 710 simulcast at least 60 games with KLAA to reach areas of the northwest area of the Los Angeles radio market. The deal returns the Angels to their old radio station from 2007. For 2011 KSPN will simulcast with KLAA for 25-30 weekend games.
(Channel 5). KTLA remained the Angels' home for 32 seasons (while also carrying Dodgers games from 1993 to 2001). The team returned to Channel 9, by this time renamed KCAL-TV
, because The Walt Disney Company
bought a stake of the team and eventually became the full owner after Gene Autry's death in 1998. At the time the broadcast rights were secured before the 1996 season, Disney had owned KCAL, until they were forced to sell the station when it bought ABC
. Due to FCC
regulations at the time, Disney could not own two television stations in the same city, as ABC owns KABC-TV
.
KCAL remained the home of Angels baseball for 10 seasons, until the 2005 season. The station began broadcasting Dodgers games, starting in the 2006 season. When Moreno took over as owner, starting in the 2004 season, he made sure more games were available for fans. Most Angels fans were accustomed to seeing probably more than 100 games annually, but the Angels televised more than 140 games, the most in franchise history. In addition to the 50 telecasts each on KCAL and FSN West, the remaining telecasts were spread between UHF outlets KPXN
(Channel 30, a Pax/i
O&O) and the hometown-based independent station KDOC
(Channel 56). In 2005, just KCAL and FSN West combined to televise about 140 games.
On April 3, 2006, the Angels and its cable broadcaster partner, Fox Sports West, finalized a 10-year, $
500 million deal. This deal voids the previous one in which Fox Sports West would only televise a minimum of 50 games annually until 2008. In this current deal, Fox Sports West would own the rights to 150 locally-televised games annually, with 100 airing on West, while its sister over-the-air station, KCOP (Channel 13) will televise 50 contests. The remaining games would either air exclusively on ESPN
's Sunday Night Baseball or on Fox Television
's Saturday Baseball Game of the Week package.
In 2009, Fox Sports West began broadcasting 25 additional games to its schedule, subtracting those from the KCOP package, bringing their total to 125 games. KCOP's current schedule of 25 games will mostly consist of Sunday afternoon contests, and selected Saturday night games.
manager Joe Torre
, legendary voice of the Seattle Mariners
, Dave Niehaus
, legendary broadcasters Dick Enberg
and Joe Garagiola, late Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale
, Hall of Fame outfielder Reggie Jackson
, current Detroit Tigers
TV voice Mario Impemba
, current Arizona Diamondbacks
TV announcer Daron Sutton
(son of Hall of Famer Don Sutton), and Hall of Famer manager Sparky Anderson
. Enberg is the broadcaster most associated with the Angels, famous for his pet phrases "Oh, My!" and "And the halo shines tonight!". He used both of these phrases during the World Series' victory celebration of the Angels in 2002 while addressing the crowd.
Others such as Bob Starr, Paul Olden
, Larry Kahn and Al Conin served as Angel broadcasters. Starr and Olden, along with Dick Enberg and Steve Physioc, were former Los Angeles Rams play-by-play announcers concurrent with their Angels duties; in fact, Physioc was the last radio play-by-play man of the Rams in their final season in Southern California (1994
). Elconin's broadcasting style was very similar to that of Dodgers' Hall of Famer Vin Scully
. Longtime San Diego Padres
and New York Yankees
legend Jerry Coleman
had a brief stint with the Angels in the early-1970s before joining the Padres.
A shake-up in the Angels’ broadcast team for the 2010 season was announced in November 2009. Rory Markas
and Mark Gubicza
were designated to take over the TV broadcasts in 2010, with Terry Smith
and José Mota on radio. The contracts of Steve Physioc and former Major League
player Rex Hudler
were not renewed after 14 and 11 years' service, respectively.
Markas died on January 4, 2010 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Palmdale, California.
The 2009 lineup of Angels broadcasters had been Physioc (TV and radio play-by-play), Rex Hudler (TV and radio analyst), Gubicza (TV analyst), José Mota (lead analyst on the Spanish radio broadcasts), Markas (radio and TV play-by-play), and Smith (radio play-by-play).
During the 2008 Major League Baseball season
, Markas worked 75 games on television with Gubicza as analyst; Physioc and Hudler worked the remaining games on TV, but moved to the radio side whenever Markas and Gubicza worked on TV. Markas continued as the lead radio play-by-play announcer for the games Physioc and Hudler did for TV. Terry Smith continued his role as the #2 radio play-by-play man, while José Mota returned to his role as in-game reporter on TV and Spanish radio analyst.
In 2007, Mota and Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket analyst Gubicza had worked 50 telecasts (mostly road) for FSN West and KCOP, while Physioc and Hudler continued as the lead TV broadcast team for the Angels, working the remaining 100 local broadcasts. Veteran Spanish sportscaster Amaury Pi-Gonzalez
joined the team for Spanish radio play-by-play for the 2007 season, replacing Ivan Lara.
Markas and Gubicza had previously worked a three-game series for FSN West between the Angels and Blue Jays
at Rogers Centre
in Toronto, on August 13-15, 2007.
Terry Smith, who handles mostly the middle innings on radio, has been referred to by some as this generation's Harry Kalas
because Smith often uses Kalas' famous phrases as "that ball is out-ta here" on an Angels home run, or "struck him out" when the Angels strike out an opposing batter. Markas, who used his famous phrase Just another Halo victory! after Angel wins, was also a broadcaster for the USC Basketball
team.
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Los Ángeles
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was awarded an American League
American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...
expansion franchise for the 1961 season was because actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
/singer turned broadcast mogul Gene Autry
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
wanted to secure radio broadcast rights for the newly planned Los Angeles American League franchise. His KMPC (710 AM, now KSPN
KSPN (AM)
KSPN is an all-sports radio station based in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Disney. It is an ESPN Radio owned-and-operated station.-Play-by-play:...
) was the radio home of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
, from the time they arrived from Brooklyn, New York in time for the 1958 baseball season, and actually came away from the 1960 Winter Meetings with his own baseball team.
Radio
Naturally, KMPC became the longtime radio outlet for Angels games throughout Southern California, although there was a period from 1998 to 2002 that KLAC (570 AM) became the team's flagship radio home. However, the Angels returned to their ancestral radio home at 710 AM, now since rechristened KSPN-AMKSPN (AM)
KSPN is an all-sports radio station based in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Disney. It is an ESPN Radio owned-and-operated station.-Play-by-play:...
, Los Angeles's ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
-operated outlet from the 2003 through 2007 seasons.
In 2006 team owner Arte Moreno purchased his own radio station, KMXE (830 AM), an Orange County, California
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
-licensed Spanish-language formatted station. By mid-2006, 830 AM's programming was mostly in English (the principal exception being Angels games in Spanish), and the station's call was changed to KLAA. In October 2007, the Angels announced that KWKW would carry games in Spanish, and KLAA will carry Angels games in English, although games that conflict with Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim Ducks
The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
games will be transferred to another station.
In time for the 2008 baseball season KLAA-AM became the English-language outlet for Angels games, when their contract with KSPN expired.
In 2009, former Dodger radio flagship KFWB-AM joined the Angels radio network, serving as a co-flagship of sorts alongside KLAA, carrying Monday through Friday games. It provided fans who live in certain parts of the Los Angeles market with a secondary outlet to listen to games.
In 2010, KSPN-AM
KSPN (AM)
KSPN is an all-sports radio station based in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Disney. It is an ESPN Radio owned-and-operated station.-Play-by-play:...
AM 710 simulcast at least 60 games with KLAA to reach areas of the northwest area of the Los Angeles radio market. The deal returns the Angels to their old radio station from 2007. For 2011 KSPN will simulcast with KLAA for 25-30 weekend games.
Television
On the television side, the then-KHJ-TV (Channel 9) was the team's original home, until the start of the 1964 season, when Autry moved the Angels to his then-newly purchased KTLAKTLA
KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...
(Channel 5). KTLA remained the Angels' home for 32 seasons (while also carrying Dodgers games from 1993 to 2001). The team returned to Channel 9, by this time renamed KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California, USA, owned by the CBS Corporation. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.-Digital...
, because The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
bought a stake of the team and eventually became the full owner after Gene Autry's death in 1998. At the time the broadcast rights were secured before the 1996 season, Disney had owned KCAL, until they were forced to sell the station when it bought ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
. Due to FCC
Federal Communications Commission
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regulations at the time, Disney could not own two television stations in the same city, as ABC owns KABC-TV
KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
.
KCAL remained the home of Angels baseball for 10 seasons, until the 2005 season. The station began broadcasting Dodgers games, starting in the 2006 season. When Moreno took over as owner, starting in the 2004 season, he made sure more games were available for fans. Most Angels fans were accustomed to seeing probably more than 100 games annually, but the Angels televised more than 140 games, the most in franchise history. In addition to the 50 telecasts each on KCAL and FSN West, the remaining telecasts were spread between UHF outlets KPXN
KPXN
KPXN-TV is a television station licensed to San Bernardino, California, broadcasting on digital channel 38 in the Greater Los Angeles. It is now owned by ION Media Networks and is the local affiliate of the Ion Television network.-History:KPXN signed on on January 7, 1994 as KZKI...
(Channel 30, a Pax/i
I (TV network)
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O&O) and the hometown-based independent station KDOC
KDOC-TV
KDOC-TV is an independent television station based in Orange County, California . The station's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson, California...
(Channel 56). In 2005, just KCAL and FSN West combined to televise about 140 games.
On April 3, 2006, the Angels and its cable broadcaster partner, Fox Sports West, finalized a 10-year, $
United States dollar
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500 million deal. This deal voids the previous one in which Fox Sports West would only televise a minimum of 50 games annually until 2008. In this current deal, Fox Sports West would own the rights to 150 locally-televised games annually, with 100 airing on West, while its sister over-the-air station, KCOP (Channel 13) will televise 50 contests. The remaining games would either air exclusively on ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
's Sunday Night Baseball or on Fox Television
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's Saturday Baseball Game of the Week package.
In 2009, Fox Sports West began broadcasting 25 additional games to its schedule, subtracting those from the KCOP package, bringing their total to 125 games. KCOP's current schedule of 25 games will mostly consist of Sunday afternoon contests, and selected Saturday night games.
Broadcasters
Many broadcasters have come and gone over the years, as with any other sports franchise, and the Angels are no exception. Many notable voices have included former Los Angeles DodgersLos Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
manager Joe Torre
Joe Torre
Joseph Paul Torre is a former American professional baseball player and manager who currently serves as Major League Baseball’s Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations. A nine-time All-Star, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, first baseman and a third baseman for the...
, legendary voice of the Seattle Mariners
Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...
, Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus
David Arnold Niehaus was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the...
, legendary broadcasters Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg
Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on 4SD, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...
and Joe Garagiola, late Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale
Don Drysdale
Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale was a Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was one of the dominant starting pitchers of the 1960s, and became a radio and television broadcaster following his playing career...
, Hall of Fame outfielder Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson
Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson , nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the New York Yankees, is a former American Major League Baseball right fielder. During a 21-year baseball career, he played from 1967-1987 for four different teams. Jackson currently serves as...
, current Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
TV voice Mario Impemba
Mario Impemba
Mario Impemba is an American sportscaster, currently the TV voice of the Detroit Tigers and the radio and TV voice of the Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team.-Early life:...
, current Arizona Diamondbacks
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
TV announcer Daron Sutton
Daron Sutton
Daron Sutton is the television play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball. Sutton is also the son of former pitching great and Hall of Famer Don Sutton...
(son of Hall of Famer Don Sutton), and Hall of Famer manager Sparky Anderson
Sparky Anderson
George Lee "Sparky" Anderson was an American Major League Baseball manager. He managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. He was the first manager to win the World Series in both...
. Enberg is the broadcaster most associated with the Angels, famous for his pet phrases "Oh, My!" and "And the halo shines tonight!". He used both of these phrases during the World Series' victory celebration of the Angels in 2002 while addressing the crowd.
Others such as Bob Starr, Paul Olden
Paul Olden
Paul Olden is the current public address announcer for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. He has been the announcer since the Yankees moved to their new ballpark in 2009, replacing Jim Hall, who replaced Bob Sheppard, who had been the Yankees announcer since 1951.Previously, Olden has been a...
, Larry Kahn and Al Conin served as Angel broadcasters. Starr and Olden, along with Dick Enberg and Steve Physioc, were former Los Angeles Rams play-by-play announcers concurrent with their Angels duties; in fact, Physioc was the last radio play-by-play man of the Rams in their final season in Southern California (1994
1994 Los Angeles Rams season
The 1994 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 57th year with the National Football League and the 49th and final season in Los Angeles.-Staff:-Schedule:-Relocation to St. Louis:...
). Elconin's broadcasting style was very similar to that of Dodgers' Hall of Famer Vin Scully
Vin Scully
Vincent Edward Scully is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL-TV and KABC radio...
. Longtime San Diego Padres
San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...
and New York Yankees
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
legend Jerry Coleman
Jerry Coleman
Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman is a former Major League Baseball second baseman for the New York Yankees. Currently, he is an analyst and former play-by-play radio announcer for the San Diego Padres...
had a brief stint with the Angels in the early-1970s before joining the Padres.
A shake-up in the Angels’ broadcast team for the 2010 season was announced in November 2009. Rory Markas
Rory Markas
Rory Markas was an American sportscaster best known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's play-by-play broadcaster for eight seasons, and as the radio voice of the University of Southern California men's basketball team for 11 seasons...
and Mark Gubicza
Mark Gubicza
Mark Steven Gubicza is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for 14 seasons for the Kansas City Royals and Anaheim Angels . He currently does color commentary for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games on Fox Sports...
were designated to take over the TV broadcasts in 2010, with Terry Smith
Terry Smith (radio)
Terry Smith is an American announcer for KLAA radio in Los Angeles, California, and has broadcast play-by-play for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim since 2002...
and José Mota on radio. The contracts of Steve Physioc and former Major League
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
player Rex Hudler
Rex Hudler
Rex Allen Hudler is a former Major League Baseball utility player. He played a total of thirteen seasons after being a first round draft pick of the New York Yankees in 1978.-Playing career:...
were not renewed after 14 and 11 years' service, respectively.
Markas died on January 4, 2010 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Palmdale, California.
The 2009 lineup of Angels broadcasters had been Physioc (TV and radio play-by-play), Rex Hudler (TV and radio analyst), Gubicza (TV analyst), José Mota (lead analyst on the Spanish radio broadcasts), Markas (radio and TV play-by-play), and Smith (radio play-by-play).
During the 2008 Major League Baseball season
2008 Major League Baseball season
The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 in the first game of a two-game series, and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the...
, Markas worked 75 games on television with Gubicza as analyst; Physioc and Hudler worked the remaining games on TV, but moved to the radio side whenever Markas and Gubicza worked on TV. Markas continued as the lead radio play-by-play announcer for the games Physioc and Hudler did for TV. Terry Smith continued his role as the #2 radio play-by-play man, while José Mota returned to his role as in-game reporter on TV and Spanish radio analyst.
In 2007, Mota and Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket analyst Gubicza had worked 50 telecasts (mostly road) for FSN West and KCOP, while Physioc and Hudler continued as the lead TV broadcast team for the Angels, working the remaining 100 local broadcasts. Veteran Spanish sportscaster Amaury Pi-Gonzalez
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez is a Spanish language Major League Baseball announcer. He is the only major league baseball announcer to have broadcast, in Spanish, for four major league teams. From 2003 thru 2006, Pi-Gonzalez was broadcasting for 2 teams in two separate leagues, SF Giants and Seattle Mariners...
joined the team for Spanish radio play-by-play for the 2007 season, replacing Ivan Lara.
Markas and Gubicza had previously worked a three-game series for FSN West between the Angels and Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
at Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre is a multi-purpose stadium, in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower, near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...
in Toronto, on August 13-15, 2007.
Terry Smith, who handles mostly the middle innings on radio, has been referred to by some as this generation's Harry Kalas
Harry Kalas
Harry Norbert Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies...
because Smith often uses Kalas' famous phrases as "that ball is out-ta here" on an Angels home run, or "struck him out" when the Angels strike out an opposing batter. Markas, who used his famous phrase Just another Halo victory! after Angel wins, was also a broadcaster for the USC Basketball
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
team.
Broadcasters through the years
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Harmon Killebrew Harmon Clayton Killebrew , nicknamed "Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During his 22-year career in Major League Baseball , he played for the Washington Senators, a team which later became the Minnesota Twins, and... 1983 Rory Markas Rory Markas was an American sportscaster best known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's play-by-play broadcaster for eight seasons, and as the radio voice of the University of Southern California men's basketball team for 11 seasons... 2002–2010 Joel Meyers Joel Meyers is an American sportscaster and former play-by-play announcer of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association on Fox Sports West and KCAL. Meyers left the Lakers at the end of the 2010-2011 season when the team did not renew his contract.-Career:Meyers joined the Lakers... 1987-1989 Dave Niehaus David Arnold Niehaus was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the... 1969–1976 Paul Olden Paul Olden is the current public address announcer for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. He has been the announcer since the Yankees moved to their new ballpark in 2009, replacing Jim Hall, who replaced Bob Sheppard, who had been the Yankees announcer since 1951.Previously, Olden has been a... 1990 Amaury Pi-Gonzalez Amaury Pi-Gonzalez is a Spanish language Major League Baseball announcer. He is the only major league baseball announcer to have broadcast, in Spanish, for four major league teams. From 2003 thru 2006, Pi-Gonzalez was broadcasting for 2 teams in two separate leagues, SF Giants and Seattle Mariners... 2007–2008 Jerry Reuss Jerry Reuss -- pronounced "royce" -- is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, best known for his years with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the United States, who had a 22-year career from to .... 1997–1998 Victor Rojas Victor Rojas is an American baseball broadcaster, currently the TV voice of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. -Playing career:Rojas is the son of former major-league player and manager Cookie Rojas... 2010-present Billy Sample William Amos Sample , is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as an outfielder from 1978-1986. Sample played for the Texas Rangers , New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves .... 1993–1994 Steve Shannon Stephen C. Shannon is an American politician. From 2004 to 2009, Shannon represented Virginia’s 35th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 2009 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia... 1980 Terry Smith (radio) Terry Smith is an American announcer for KLAA radio in Los Angeles, California, and has broadcast play-by-play for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim since 2002... 2002–present Daron Sutton Daron Sutton is the television play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball. Sutton is also the son of former pitching great and Hall of Famer Don Sutton... 2000–2001 Joe Torre Joseph Paul Torre is a former American professional baseball player and manager who currently serves as Major League Baseball’s Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations. A nine-time All-Star, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, first baseman and a third baseman for the... 1985–1990 Don Wells Don Wells is a former defensive end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1945 NFL Draft and would later play four season with the team.-References:... 1961–1972 |
Radio (flagship)
- KMPC/KSPNKSPN (AM)KSPN is an all-sports radio station based in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Disney. It is an ESPN Radio owned-and-operated station.-Play-by-play:...
(710 AM), 1961–1997, 2003–2007 - KLAC (570 AM), 1998–2002
- KTNQKTNQKTNQ is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with a Spanish News/Talk format. It is owned by Univision. on June 13, 1925 until 1955 it was called . From August 1, 1955 until 1960 it was called KPOP. From June 29, 1960 until 1976, it was called KGBS...
(1020 AM, Spanish), 2001?–2005 - KLAA (830 AM), Spanish, 2006–2007; English, 2008–present
- KWKWKWKWKWKW is an American radio station licensed to serve Los Angeles, California. The station is owned by Lotus Communications Corporation.KWKW is one of the oldest Spanish-language radio stations in the Greater Los Angeles area...
(1330 AM, Spanish), 2008–present
Radio Network (as of 2011)
| Station | Frequency | City |
|---|---|---|
| KLAA | 830 AM | Orange Orange, California Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950... (English flagship) |
| KSPN | 710 AM | Los Angeles (English Affiliate) |
| KWKW | 1330 AM | Los Angeles (Spanish flagship) |
| KGEO KGEO KGEO is a radio station broadcasting a News/talk format. Licensed to Bakersfield, California, USA, it serves inland central California. The station was assigned the KGEO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on May 18, 1981.- History :In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s the station's... |
1230 AM | Bakersfield, California Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively.... |
| KGAM | 1450 AM | Palm Springs, California Palm Springs, California Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego... |
| XEPE | 1700 AM | San Diego–Tijuana Tijuana Tijuana is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics... |
| KVTA | 1520 AM | Ventura, California Ventura, California Ventura is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. The population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census. Ventura is accessible via U.S... |
| KKZZ KKZZ KKZZ is a News/Talk formatted radio station licensed to Santa Paula, California. It has had a number of formats since originally signing on as KSPA in the late 1950s, including country , all-news , and Spanish language . It previously used the KKZZ call letters for a long period as an adult... |
1400 AM | Ventura, California |
| KLOA KLOA (AM) KLOA is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format, licensed to and serving Ridgecrest, California, USA. The station is currently owned by Adelman Broadcasting, Inc. and features programing from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network.... |
1240 AM | Ridgecrest, California Ridgecrest, California Ridgecrest, formerly known as Crumville, was incorporated as a city in 1913. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . Ridgecrest is the only incorporated city along US 395 in Kern County... |
| KELY KELY KELY is a radio station broadcasting a Oldies format. Licensed to Ely, Nevada, USA, the station is currently owned by Ely Radio, LLC and features programing from ABC News.... |
1230 AM | Ely, Nevada Ely, Nevada Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States. Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906... |
| KVFG KVFG KVFG is a commercial radio station in Victorville, California, broadcasting to the Victor Valley, California, area. KVFG is owned by CBS Radio.-History:... |
103.1 FM | Victorville, California Victorville, California Victorville is a city located in the Victor Valley of southwestern San Bernardino County, California. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 census, the city had a population of 115,903, up from 64,030 at the 2000 census.-Geography and climate:... |
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Over the air television
- KHJ-TV/KCALKCAL-TVKCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California, USA, owned by the CBS Corporation. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.-Digital...
(Channel 9), 1961–1963, 1996–2005 - KTLAKTLAKTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...
(Channel 5), 1964–1995 - KPXN-TV (Channel 30), 2004
- KDOC-TVKDOC-TVKDOC-TV is an independent television station based in Orange County, California . The station's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson, California...
(Channel 56), 2004 - KCOP-TVKCOP-TVKCOP-TV, channel 13, is a television station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, KCOP is a sister station to Fox network outlet KTTV , and is affiliated with the MyNetworkTV programming service...
(Channel 13), 2006–present
Cable television
- Fox Sports West (formerly Prime Ticket, Prime Sports West), 1992–present