Justin Kutcher is a sportscaster with

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. He is the play-by-play broadcaster for Atlanta Falcons preseason games, and was formerly the play-by-play announcer for the Washington Wizards on

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. Kutcher joined Fox Sports in 2012 as a play-by-play broadcaster for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He made his

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broadcasting debut in April 2013.

Biography

Early career

Kutcher announced college sports for the Big Ten Network, CBS College Sports and NCAA Productions. He called Minor League Baseball at the Double-A to Triple-A levels, such as for the

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. He also anchored

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's ''Daily Rewind'' and ''Post Season Live'' during the 2008 MLB playoffs. Other assignments include calling Portland Timbers soccer, the 2006 World Softball Championships in

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and

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women's basketball. Before moving into the booth, he served as a statistician for ''

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'', working in the playoffs and the

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as an assistant to

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and

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ESPN

Before joining Fox, Kutcher worked for

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, where he called football,

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

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and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

games. He was especially involved in calling college sports such as college football, college basketball, college baseball and college volleyball. He called NBA regular season games for ESPN as well. He even called high school football and basketball for the network. He also announced the

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FOX Sports

Kutcher calls

. His partner was

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in 2012; it is now either James Bates,

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, or

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. Kutcher also calls select MLB games on Fox and Fox Sports 1. He is also a play-by-play announcer for college basketball on

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. In 2013, he filled in for Gus Johnson for a Week 15 NFL matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and the

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. He became a regular fill-in for the '' NFL on Fox'' beginning in 2014. He also was a commentator for FOX's coverage of the

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...

and the 2016

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. He also calls

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daytime coverage for fellow Fox channel

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and the Masters Agility Championship, which is also part of the Westminster Kennel Club events.

Wizards

In 2019, NBC Sports Washington hired Justin Kutcher as the new television play-by-play announcer for Washington Wizards' games, replacing Steve Buckhantz. Kutcher worked with the Wizards until April 2022.

Personal life

While attending

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, he was sports director at student station WTBU. He graduated with a degree from the College of Communication. He is also a graduate of the

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. He grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and lives in

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References

External links

Fox Sports biography
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