Matt Underwood is an American
sportscaster currently serving as the television play-by-play announcer for the
Cleveland Guardians
The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. Since , the team has played its home gam ...
of
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...
(MLB).
Broadcasting career
Prior to joining the Guardians broadcast team on a full-time basis in 2000, Underwood spent 10 years at
WEWS-TV
WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on ...
5 in Cleveland (
ABC). Underwood joined WEWS as an associate sports producer after graduating from
Baldwin-Wallace College in 1990. In December 1994, Underwood was named as a sports producer/reporter. During this time, he also worked for
WKNR
WKNR (850 AM) – branded as ''850 ESPN Cleveland'' – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland. Owned by Good Karma Brands, WKNR is the Cleveland affiliate for ESPN Radio and the AM flag ...
Radio (then at 1220 AM) as an update anchor and weekend show host.
A year later he would become the weekend sports anchor at ''News Channel 5'', and in November 1996 he became the station's sports director and weeknight 6 and 11 p.m. sports anchor, a job he held until 2000, when he became a full-time member of the Guardians' broadcasting team (having previously done radio and TV pregame shows for the team as a side job prior to 2000).
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Underwood was in the radio booth from 2000–2006, and then switched to TV beginning in 2007. He also has called high school football and college basketball games on Bally Sports Great Lakes during the offseason.][
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Personal life
Underwood is an Ashland, Ohio native who studied business administration and graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in 1990.[ Underwood's son, Max, is the bassist for the Cleveland-based metalcore band Midwinter.
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See also
* List of Cleveland Guardians broadcasters
References
External links
Broadcasters
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Living people
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
Baldwin Wallace University alumni
Cleveland Guardians announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
High school football announcers in the United States
High school basketball announcers in the United States
Major League Baseball broadcasters
People from Ashland, Ohio
People from Avon Lake, Ohio
Television anchors from Cleveland
Year of birth missing (living people)