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Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is an American sports broadcaster who is the television
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broadcaster of the
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and host of ''CenterStage'' on the
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, and the host of ''
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'' heard on "ESPN New York 880"
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in New York City and
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on
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on
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. Kay also works on the
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.


Early life and education

Kay was born and raised in the New York City borough of
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. His father was
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and his mother was of
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descent. Always a Yankee fan, Kay wore number 1 in Little League for his favorite player,
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. Wanting to be the Yankees announcer when he grew up, he wrote as many of his school assignments as he could about the Yankees, so he could learn all about them. Kay began his reporting career at the
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and continued reporting at
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for their radio station
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. He earned a
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in
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from Fordham.


Early career

Kay started his professional career with the ''
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'' in 1982 as a general assignment writer, with sports-specific assignments to college basketball, the
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and the
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happening over time. He received the writing assignment covering the Yankees in 1987. In 1989, Kay left the ''Post'' for the '' Daily News,'' still primarily covering the Yankees. Kay also served as the
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Yankee reporter starting in 1989. In 1992–99, he was MSG's locker room reporter for the
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. He had previously worked for the network as a contributor on the news-format sports show ''MSG SportsDesk''. Kay left the ''Daily News'' to host a sports talk show on WABC in 1992, briefly returning to write "Kay's Korner" for the ''Daily News'' in 1993, before taking a job doing radio broadcasts of New York Yankees games with John Sterling. Kay also worked as a reporter for
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in the late 1990s.


Announcer for the New York Yankees (1992–present)

Kay spent a decade partnered with Sterling as the radio announcers of the team on WABC from 1992 to 2001."YES Network announcer bio"
yesnetwork.com; accessed March 28, 2018.
Kay and Sterling also paired together in 1998 for ''Sports Talk with John Sterling and Michael Kay,'' a nightly radio show which aired on WABC. During the baseball season, the duo hosted ''Yankee Talk,'' a weekend pre-game radio show. From 1992 to 1993 Kay hosted his own show on WABC. Kay continued during that time as a spot reporter on ABC Radio, doing off-season shows with Sterling and as a fill-in sports reporter on
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. When ESPN Radio began leasing (and later purchasing) WEVD radio in 2001, Kay was chosen to host a daily radio show on the newly rechristened "1050 ESPN Radio". When WCBS acquired the radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to the debuting
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on television and Sterling remained on the radio. Kay has been the Yankees' lead television play-by-play announcer ever since. Kay has worked with a series of partners on YES, often with three or four different partners in the same season. Most have been former professional players, including
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,
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,
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, Paul O'Neill,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. Kay calls about 125 games a year for the
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and
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(the Prime games were formerly broadcast in the Yankees' territory by a network led by
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). In 2008, Major League Baseball invited Kay to call the
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at Yankee Stadium during that year's All Star festivities. On September 21, 2008, he joined
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and
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to call the seventh inning of
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's
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of the final home game at
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against the
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. According to Miller, Kay was brought in because ESPN felt that they should include the local aspects of broadcasting for the Yankees for this special game, as the
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was not allowed to cover the game. Since the late 1990s, Kay and Sterling have co- emceed such events as the Yankees' annual
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ceremony as well as players' number retirements, anniversary celebrations for the team's World Series victories, and the
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celebrations after Yankees'
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victories. Following Sterling’s retirement, Kay handled 2024 duties solo.


Other announcing work

Kay and Sterling also provided play-by-play commentary for
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's ''
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'' video games from 1999 to 2001. In addition to his Yankees work, Kay has called play-by-play of several postseason games on
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, including the 2008 NLDS between the
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and
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, the 2013 ALDS between the
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and
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, and Game 3 of the 2016 ALDS between the Texas Rangers and
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. In January 2022,
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hired Kay and
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to broadcast an alternate ''
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'' broadcast on
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, similar to the critically acclaimed "
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" for ''
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''. That same year, Kay also called the
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on ESPN alongside Rodriguez. Doing the
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-
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series, these games were noted for being the final games in the careers of
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and
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. The duo both went out with singles and getting standing ovations from the crowd as they exited for pinch runners. The Phillies swept the Cardinals in two games in the best of three. In 2025, Kay began posting “chicken tender reviews” on an
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page, following in the example of
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’s pizza reviews. He aims to sample chicken tenders at every ballpark the Yankees visit.


''The Michael Kay Show''

In 2002, Kay began hosting a drive-time talk show on WEPN (the former WEVD). That same year he began hosting the YES Network's ''CenterStage'', a sports and entertainment interview-format show. Kay frequently broadcast live from the vicinity of the stadium that the Yankees were playing in that evening (his contractual exclusivity prohibited him from hosting the show from inside
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). This is no longer the case. From 2009 until 2011, the 6:00 hour had been co-titled ''New York Baseball Tonight'' throughout the baseball season. Kay did not usually appear during that hour if he was broadcasting a Yankee game that evening. Don La Greca often hosted this segment and appeared with Kay on the rest of ''The Michael Kay Show''. When Kay is on the air for the end of his program, he usually signs off with the following: "In the words of
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, life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, and I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again," before promoting the next program. Kay opened his first-ever simulcast on the
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on February 3, 2014, by dumping a bottle of
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into the garbage, a move meant to poke fun of the channel's former occupant
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. The canned action was widely criticized. The final broadcast of The Michael Kay Show was on December 13, 2024.


Awards

In 2003, Kay was added to the
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. In 2007, Kay was nominated for a number of New York
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for his work with the YES Network, both for Yankees broadcasts and for his highly rated interview program ''Centerstage''. He won one New York Emmy for his work on the YES Network as part of the team of the NYY broadcast: New York Yankees Baseball "Manny vs. NY – Yankees/Red Sox- 5/24/06." (YES Network). In 1998, Kay was on the MSG team that won an Emmy for ''Outstanding Live Sports Coverage—Series''. In 1996 and 1997 he was a member of the MSG team that won Emmys for ''Outstanding Live Sports Coverage—Single Program'' for
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's
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and ''The Battle for New York: Yankees vs. Mets'', and he was awarded the ''Dick Young Award for Excellence in Sports Media'' by the New York Pro Baseball Scouts in 1995, and the award for Best Sports Reporter at the 2000 New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards.


Personal life

Kay married television journalist
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on February 12, 2011, with former New York mayor
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officiating. Guests included former Yankees such as
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,
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, and Paul O'Neill, actors
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,
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, and
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, and actor/uncle
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. The couple have two children: a daughter, Caledonia, born in 2013 and a son, Charles, born in 2014. He resides in
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. On July 3, 2019, Kay announced that he would undergo vocal cord surgery, keeping him out of the broadcasting booth from early July until late August. He returned to the booth on August 17, and returned to his radio show on August 26.


See also

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References


External links

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ESPN Radio Biography
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