Tom Hart is a television announcer for

ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

. He attended

Rock Bridge High School Rock Bridge High School is a public high school located in southern Columbia, Missouri, United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12 and is one of four High Schools in Columbia Public Schools. It is located next to the Columbia Area Career ...

Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 United States census, making it the List of cities in Misso ...

and is a graduate of the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

. Hart lives in

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Biography

Hart is a former field reporter on ''Braves Live'', a pregame/postgame show for the

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. He calls college football and basketball for the ESPN family of networks after having performed the same role for the

Big Ten Network Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of College athletics, collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news ...

from 2010 to 2012. Hart has also been the insider for college football and basketball on

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and has been the play-by-play commentator and studio host for

Comcast Sports Southeast Comcast Sports Southeast and Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) was an American regional sports network for the Southern United States that was operated as a joint venture between cable television providers Comcast and Charter Communications. In contr ...

. He also has served as a broadcaster for two minor league baseball teams: the

Winston-Salem Warthogs Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the List of municipalities in North Carolina, fifth-most populous ...

and the

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, where he also served as director of media relations.

Career timeline

*1999–2002 ISP Sports Network studio host *1999–2002

play-by-play *2002–2006

play-by-play, director of media relations (where he was twice named Southern League Broadcaster of the Year) *2003–2011

studio anchor, play-by-play for college football, basketball, and Southern League baseball *2004–2010

College Sports Television CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports ...

CBS College Sports Network CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports ...

college football and basketball play-by-play *2008–2010

college football and basketball insider *2010–2012

college football and basketball play-by-play *2011–2014 ''Braves Live'' host, field reporter *2012–2014

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and

College Basketball on ESPN ''ESPN College Basketball'' is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks (including ABC since 2006). Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I, holding broadcast righ ...

play-by-play *2014–present

SEC Network SEC Network (SECN) is an American multinational sports network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communications (which hold ...

college football, basketball, and baseball play-by-play *2020–present

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play-by-play *2023–present XFL on

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lead play-by-play *2024-present Braves Fill in play-by-play on Radio

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