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List Of Minnesota Vikings Broadcasters
The Minnesota Vikings' flagship radio station is KFXN-FM. The games are also heard on the "Vikings Radio Network" in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota, as well as many other outlets. Paul Allen has been the play-by-play announcer since the 2002 NFL season and Pete Bercich is the analyst, who began his first season in 2007. WCCO was the flagship station from 1961–1969. Dick Enroth was the original announcer, succeeded by Ray Christensen. KSTP (AM) held the rights from 1970–1975. WCCO again from 1976–1984. KSTP (FM) 1985–1987. WCCO 1988–1990. KFAN 1991–1995. WCCO 1996–2000. KFAN (KFXN-FM) since 2001. After Jim Morse called the 1970 games, Joe McConnell was the radio play by play announcer 1971–76, 1985–87. Joe Starkey was the radio play by play announcer 1977. Ray Scott was the radio play by play announcer 1978–82. Tim Moreland was the radio play by play announcer 1983–84. Brad Nessler was the radio play by play announcer 1988–89. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion team, the team began play the following year. They are named after the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia, reflecting the prominent Scandinavian American culture of Minnesota. The team plays its home games at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis. The Vikings have an all-time overall record of , the highest regular season and combined winning percentage among NFL franchises who have not won a Super Bowl, in addition the most playoff runs, division titles, and (tied with the Buffalo Bills) Super Bowl appearances. They also have the most conference championship appearances of non-winning Super Bowl teams, with them being one of three (along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams) to appear in a conferen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSTP (FM)
KSTP-FM (94.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in St. Paul, Minnesota, serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. It is the flagship FM station of Hubbard Broadcasting and airs a hot adult contemporary radio format. The station has long been known on-air as "KS95." The studios and offices, located on University Avenue, along the boundary line between St. Paul and Minneapolis, are shared with sister stations KSTP (AM), KSTP-TV, KTMY, and KSTC-TV. There is a broadcasting tower behind the station, though it is only used as an emergency back-up, in case there are problems with the main tower (which is located in Shoreview, Minnesota). KSTP-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 95,000 watts (100,000 with beam tilt). The transmitter is located at Telefarm Towers in Shoreview, Minnesota, off County Road F West. KSTP-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format; the HD-2 subchannel carries the all sports programming heard on KSTP (AM). History The current KSTP-FM b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Vikings Announcers
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed, and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Roughly a third of the state is covered in forests, and it is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" for having over 14,000 bodies of fresh water of at least ten acres. More than 60% of Minnesotans live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", the state's main political, economic, and cultural hub. With a population of about 3.7 million, the Twin Cities is the 16th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the state include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMSP-TV
KMSP-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV outlet WFTC (channel 9.2). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie; while KMSP-TV's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. KMSP-TV also serves the Mankato market (via K35KI-D in nearby St. James through the local municipal-operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), even though that area already has a Fox affiliate of its own. KMSP is also carried on the main channel of KFTC (channel 26), a satellite station of WFTC licensed to Bemidji which serves the northernmost reaches of the Minneapolis–St. Paul television market. KMSP-TV is also carried in Canada on Shaw Cable's Thunder Bay, Ontario system, on Tbaytel, and on Bell MTS Fibe TV in the province of Manitoba. Since October 2022, the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Stembridge, Jr
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976 * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player * Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer * Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist * Terry Balsamo (born 1972), American lead guitarist for the rock band Evanescence * Terry Beckner (born 1997), American football player * Terry Bollea (born 1953), professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan * Terry Bowden (born 1956), American football coach and former player * Terry Bradshaw (born 1948), American former National Football League quarterback * Terry Branstad (born 1946), American politician * Terry Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy writer * Terry Brooks (basketball) (born c. 1968), American college basket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Rowe (broadcaster)
Poloroid is a former stage name of Essex-born singer-songwriter Danielle "Dan" Rowe, best known for her 2003 single " So Damn Beautiful". Originally referring to a trio, the name "Poloroid" was adopted by Rowe for her solo material in 2001, following the death of her bandmate John Horrocks. Her song "So Damn Beautiful" was featured on compilation albums, such as '' Global Underground 012: Bueno Aires'', and was also used in the soundtrack to an episode of American drama ''Nip/Tuck''. After her record label, Telstar Records, was dissolved in 2004, Rowe retired the "Poloroid" moniker and formed a new band named No Silence. History Poloroid were originally a trio consisting of Danielle Rowe, Lee Milleare and John Horrocks. After Horrocks committed suicide in May 2001, Rowe continued to use the Poloroid moniker as a solo artist. Her song "So Damn Beautiful", which she had co-written with both Milleare and Horrocks, was first brought to the attention of nightclubs after British disc j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carlson (sportscaster)
Brig.-Gen. John Warren Carlson (December 17, 1933 – April 5, 2016) was an American military officer and sportscaster. Carlson called New England Patriots games from 1980 to 1986, New England Whalers from 1972 to 1975, Boston College Eagles football and Basketball on TV and Radio from 1987 to 1989, and Minnesota Vikings games in 1990. Carlson was a sports talk show host at WEEI radio in Boston from 1976 to 1987 and at WRKO WRKO (680 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. Owned by iHeartMedia, WRKO is a Class B AM station that provides secondary coverage to portio ... 1987–1990. He died on April 5, 2016, at the age of 82 due to respiratory complications. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlson, John 1933 births 2016 deaths American radio sports announcers Boston College Eagles men's basketball announcers Boston College Eagles football announcers Boston sportscaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Nessler
Bradley Ray Nessler (born June 3, 1956) is an American sportscaster, who currently calls college football and college basketball games for CBS Sports. Career Early assignments Nessler began his professional broadcasting career sharing play–by–play radio duties with Al Ciraldo on Georgia Tech basketball on WGST from 1980–81 through 1984–85 and handled the play–by–play for the Atlanta Falcons from 1982 to 1988 on WGST and WSB before assuming the same position for the Minnesota Vikings during the 1988 and 1989 seasons. He also called preseason telecasts for the Miami Dolphins for several years and has done play–by–play of ACC football and basketball telecasts for Jefferson-Pilot. CBS Sports In 1990 and 1991, Nessler worked for CBS Sports, calling NFL games, college football and college basketball (both men's and women's college basketball). ESPN and ABC Sports Nessler's career with ESPN began in 1992 with college basketball games, and also Big Ten and Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Moreland
Tim Moreland is a radio sportscaster who is the voice of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Announcing career Moreland calls football and basketball games for the University of Nebraska and called East Carolina Pirates football games for eleven seasons and is the former voice of the Minnesota Vikings (1983–84) and Minnesota Twins (1983). In addition, he called Catawba College Indians football and basketball, Cincinnati Bearcats football and basketball games, select high school football and basketball games. Personal Moreland graduated from the Benedictine College with a bachelor's and then master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and got his doctorate degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. Moreland was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa and grew up in Sioux City. He is the father of two children, Mike and Katie, who are both lawyers. Tim is a communication professor at Catawba College Catawba College is a private college in Salisbury, North Carolina. Founded in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Scott (sportscaster)
Ray Eugene Scott (June 17, 1919 – March 23, 1998) was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcasts for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. His brother Hal Scott was also a sportscaster. Early life and career A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Scott began his broadcasting career on local radio in the late 1930s. (Fellow announcer Bill McColgan, in his introduction of Scott for the radio broadcast of the 1957 NFL Championship Game, stated that Scott started broadcasting when he was only 17 years old.) Following a stint in the U.S. Army during World War II, he moved to Pittsburgh, where he did play-by-play for Carnegie Tech and University of Pittsburgh football and Duquesne University basketball. Green Bay Packers and CBS Sports Scott's first NFL broadcasts came in 1953 over the DuMont network; three years later he began doing play-by-play on Packers broadcasts for CBS, Scott was paired primarily with Tony Canadeo on Packers telecasts. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Starkey
Joseph K. Starkey (born 1941) is an American sportscaster who has served as the radio play-by-play announcer of California Golden Bears football from 1975 to 2022. He previously worked as the sports director of KGO radio in San Francisco, California and play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers for 20 seasons from 1989 to 2008. Starkey is most famous for his frenetic call of The Play in the 1982 Big Game between Cal and Stanford: ''"Oh, the band is out on the field!"'' Starkey nearly lost his voice during and after this event, which he hailed as "the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football!" Career Starkey grew up in Chicago and briefly played football at Thornton Junior College. He attended Loyola University Chicago, graduating in 1964 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science in international relations in 1965. He has broadcast for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings (1977) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe McConnell
Joseph Fredrick McConnell (March 10, 1939 – April 8, 2018) was an American sports announcer. Early life and career McConnell was born in Rochester, Indiana and grew up in Goodland, Indiana. He was a 1962 graduate of Franklin College, and his broadcasting career began in 1962 at Purdue's campus radio station, WBAA. McConnell served as assistant sports information director at Purdue from 1965 to 1967. Broadcasting experience McConnell's experience includes 23 seasons in the National Football League as the voice of the Denver Broncos (1969), Minnesota Vikings (1971–76 and 1985–87), Chicago Bears (1977–84), Indianapolis Colts (1992-94) and Tennessee Oilers (1997–98); seven seasons in the National Basketball Association as the voice of the Phoenix Suns (1970–72) and Indiana Pacers (1972–77); and seven seasons in Major League Baseball as the voice of the Minnesota Twins (1978–79) and Chicago White Sox (1980-84). McConnell also spent five seasons (1991–95) as lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
