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Encyclopedia > NBA on ESPN Radio
NBA on ESPN Radio


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Genre National Basketball Association
Running time 150 minutes (approximate)
Country Flag of United States USA
Home station ESPN Radio (1996-)
Starring Jim Durham
Dr. Jack Ramsay
Air dates January 21, 1996 – Present

The NBA on ESPN Radio is a broadcast of National Basketball Association games on the ESPN Radio network. Games on ESPN Radio are distributed on over 200 radio stations in the United States and Canada. The program began on January 21, 1996 and the current contract runs through the 2007-2008 season. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the worlds premier mens basketball league. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... Jim Durham is an American basketball sportscaster. ... Jack Ramsay This article refers to the basketball coach. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the worlds premier mens basketball league. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Contents

Overview

As the primary national radio partner of the NBA, ESPN Radio televises games on a weekly basis including some of the league's marquee events:

The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. ... The NBA Playoffs are four rounds of competition between sixteen teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conferences (called Divisions, pre-1970) of the National Basketball Association. ... The National Basketball Association Conference Finals occur at the conclusion of the NBA Playoffs when the final four teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences face off. ... Logo of the NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association, played under a best-of-seven playoff format. ...

Broadcasters

Since the debut of NBA games on the network, ESPN Radio games have featured the lead broadcast team of Jim Durham on play-by-play and Dr. Jack Ramsay as the color commentator. Other broadcasters have included Kevin Calabro, Brent Musburger, Tim Legler and Will Perdue. Musburger has called several NBA Finals for ESPN Radio, his last being the 2004 NBA Finals. Jim Durham is an American basketball sportscaster. ... Play-by-play, in broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ... Jack Ramsay This article refers to the basketball coach. ... A color commentator (or colour commentator in Canada), sometimes known as a color analyst (or colour analyst), is a member of the broadcasting team for a sporting event who assists the play-by-play announcer by filling in any time when play is not in progress. ... Kevin Calabro is an American play-by-play announcer for the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association. ... Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939 in Portland, Oregon) is an American sportscaster for ABC. // Educated at Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism, Musburger began his career as a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago American newspaper. ... Timothy Eugene Tim Legler (born December 26, 1966 in Washington, D.C.) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA at the shooting guard position from 1990 to 2000, and now currently appears regularly on the ESPN program NBA Shootaround and basketball analyst for SportsCenter. ... Will Perdue is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. Following a college career at Vanderbilt University, he was selected by the Chicago Bulls, 11th overall in the 1988 NBA Draft. ... The Pistons are congratulated by President George W. Bush after capturing the 2004 title. ...


Controversy

In June 2006, ESPN announced that Mike Tirico would replace Jim Durham on NBA Finals games starting in 2007. Initially, Dr. Jack Ramsay said that he would retire. June 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Extraordinary renditions. ... Mike Tirico is the lead broadcaster for ESPNs presentation of Monday Night Football. ... Jim Durham is an American basketball sportscaster. ... The 2007 NBA Finals will be the championship series of the National Basketball Associations 2006-2007 season. ...

Working with [Jim Durham] is a pleasure, he's the best play-by-play guy in the business, and I will miss very much not working with him. But we were not going to work the Finals together, and I didn't want to do it with anybody else.

Ramsay did not retire; as of the 2006-07 NBA season, he is still working regular season games with Durham. It is still unclear if Ramsay will work the 2007 NBA Finals with Tirico or not. The 2006-07 NBA season is the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. ...


See also

... NBA Wednesday is a weekly presentation of the National Basketball Association on ESPN. NBA Wednesday starts the first Wednesday of the NBA season, and runs throughout the entire season. ... NBA Friday appears every Friday with live coverage of the biggest games in primetime sense the 2002 season, during the National Basketball Association regular season on ESPN and is avalible in high definition on ESPN HD. It begins in early November and appear just about every week untill the conclusion... The NBA on ABC is a TV show that telecasts NBA games on ABC Sports since Christmas Day 2002. ... The NBA on NBC is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from 1990 to 2002. ... The NBA on TNT, known since October 2002 as TNT NBA Thursday, is a TV show which broadcasts National Basketball Association games on TNT. TNT began airing NBA games in 1988, and aired games on multiple nights of the week (usually twice a week with sister network TBS airing another... The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast NBA Finals games over the years. ...

References

External links

ESPN Inc.

ESPN Executives: George Bodenheimer (President, ESPN Inc.) | Sean Bratches | Christine Driessen | Edwin Durso | Chuck Pagano | John Skipper | Norby Williamson | Russell Wolff ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

ESPN Family of Networks: ESPN | ESPN2 | ESPN on ABC | ESPNEWS | ESPN Classic | ESPNU | ESPN Deportes | ESPNHD | ESPN2HD | ESPN Now | ESPN Plus | ESPN PPV | ESPN360 | ESPN Radio | ESPN Deportes Radio ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Nicknamed the deuce, ESPN2 was to be branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross, snowboarding, and BMX racing. ... ESPN on ABC logo, September 2006-Present ESPN on ABC screenshot, HD version. ... ESPNEWS (word origin: grammatical blend of ESPN and news), launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel produced by the sports network ESPN. It airs news, highlights, press conferences, and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ... ESPN Classic features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. ... ESPNU is a television channel that specializes in college sports, and is produced by, affiliated with and owned by parent network ESPN. The network was launched on March 4, 2005 from the Oklahoma State University Campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ... ESPN Deportes is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN HD, launched March 30th, 2003 is a high-definitionsimulcast of the cable television network ESPN, both owned by Disney that broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A network started by ESPN, ESPN Now posts around-the-clock listings of television events on the ESPN Family of Networks, as well as up-to-date news. ... ESPN Plus is the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, which is an American televsion program syndicator. ... ESPN (formerly an initialism for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN360 is a video content player that can be found at ESPN360. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... ESPN Deportes Radio is a Spanish-language sports radio network created and produced by Disney-owned ESPN. Programming includes call-in talk shows and commentary from hosts about a full range of sporting events, including soccer, American football, baseball and boxing. ...

ESPN Business Ventures: ESPN.com | ESPN Original Entertainment | ESPN The Magazine | ESPN Deportes La Revista | ESPN Books | ESPN Zone | ESPY Awards | ESPN Integration | Jayski's Silly Season Site ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN.com logo ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. ... ESPN Original Entertainment logo ESPN Original Entertainment or EOE is a production company that developes various branded programming for ESPN, an American sports entertainment cable channel. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... ESPN Deportes La Revista is a Spanish Language magazine that focuses on sports from a Hispanic perspective. ... ESPN Books logo ESPN Books is a publishing company operated by ESPN Started in 2004, ESPN Books has published almost 20 books. ... ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-theme restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios. ... The 10th Anniversary ESPY Award. ... ESPN Integration is an agreement between ESPN and video game developer EA to put various ESPN features in EA Sports games. ... Jayskis Silly Season Site is a website focusing primarily on NASCAR news and rumors, created and run by Jay Jayski Adamczyk in August of 1996. ...

Sports Properties: Arena Football League | College Football | Major League Baseball | Major League Soccer | National Football League | NASCAR | National Basketball Association | Women's National Basketball Association | List of Programming Rights The Arena Football League on ESPN is a presentation of the Arena Football League on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN on ABC. The telecasts are also expected to be simucast on ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD and ABC HD. The agreement will run from the 2007 season opener and last five years... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... ESPN Major League Baseball is a promotion of Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN2, with simulcasts on ESPNHD or ESPN2HD. Major League Baseball on ESPN debuted on April 15, 1990 with Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN Major League Baseball is guaranteed to remain on air until 2013. ... ESPN2 Major League Soccer is a promotion of Major League Soccer (North Americas premiere soccer league) on ESPN2 and ESPN on ABC, with simulcasts on ESPN2HD for the ESPN2 telecasts. ... Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. ... NASCAR on ESPN is a series of NASCAR races that were broadcasted by ABC and the ESPN networks from the early 1960s until 2000. ... ... The WNBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of Womens National Basketball Association games on the ESPN family of networks. ... ESPN (which formerly stood for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

Key Programs: Around the Horn | Baseball Tonight | Cold Pizza | College GameDay (football) | ESPN College Football Primetime | Friday Night Fights | Jim Rome Is Burning | Mike and Mike in the Morning | Monday Night Countdown | Monday Night Football | NBA Friday | NASCAR Countdown | NBA Shootaround | Outside the Lines |Pardon the Interruption | Saturday Primetime | College GameDay (basketball) | SportsCenter | Sunday NFL Countdown | Sunday Night Baseball -List of programs broadcast by ESPN Around the Horn (sometimes abbreviated ATH) is a daily, half-hour sports talk program on ESPN filmed in Washington, D.C. It airs at 5:00 pm ET, in a sports talk hour with Pardon the Interruption, with the hour repeated at 6:00 p. ... Baseball Tonight is a Sports Emmy Awards winning program that airs on ESPN, and is the only nightly highlight show devoted to Major League Baseball. ... Cold Pizza is a television morning sports talk show that airs weekday mornings on ESPN2 and is also the networks flagship program. ... College GameDay is an ESPN show covering college football. ... ESPN College Football Primetime is a live game presentation of Division 1-A college football on ESPN. In the past the primary sponsors have been Polaroid and AT&T, but currently there is no main sponsor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jim Rome is Burning (originally titled Rome is Burning) is a sports conversation and opinion show hosted by Jim Rome. ... Mike and Mike in the Morning is a sports talk radio show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg (aka Greeny) and broadcast on ESPN Radio. ... Monday Night Countdown is the official pregame show for Monday Night Football and is aired on ESPN and ESPN HD. The show follows SportsCenter and leads up to the kickoff with ninety minutes of comprehensive analysis, interviews, highlights, up-to-the-minute NFL news and live reports from the site... Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. ... NBA Friday appears every Friday with live coverage of the biggest games in primetime sense the 2002 season, during the National Basketball Association regular season on ESPN and is avalible in high definition on ESPN HD. It begins in early November and appear just about every week untill the conclusion... NASCAR Countdown is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series and Busch Series prerace show set to debut on July 29, 2007. ... NBA Shootaround is a National Basketball Association pregame show for ESPNs coverage of the NBA. Typically, the program airs at 7:30 p. ... Outside the Lines began in 1990 as a monthly progam that examined a critical issue in American sports. ... Pardon the Interruption (also known as PTI) is a sports television show on ESPN filmed in Washington, D.C., and airing on various ESPN TV channels, XM and Sirius satellite radio services, and is also distributed as a podcast. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... College GameDay is an ESPN program that covers college basketball and is a spin-off of the successful college football version. ... This article is about the American ESPN show. ... Sunday NFL Countdown logo Sunday NFL Countdown is a pregame show of all the NFL action for that week. ... Sunday Night Baseball is the Major League Baseball game of the week that is televised Sunday nights at 8 p. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ...

Notable Personalities: John Anderson | Chris Berman | Bonnie Bernstein | Mike Breen | Hubie Brown | Linda Cohn | Chris Connelly | Lee Corso | Jay Crawford | Rece Davis | Chris Fowler | Ron Franklin | Peter Gammons | Mike Greenberg | Mike Golic | Jay Harris | Kirk Herbstreit | Fred Hickman | Tom Jackson | Dana Jacobson | Brian Kenny | Suzy Kolber | Tony Kornheiser | Bob Ley | Steve Levy | Kenny Mayne | Sean McDonough | Jon Miller | Joe Morgan | Brent Musburger | Brad Nessler | Dan Patrick | Mike Patrick | Karl Ravech | Tony Reali | Jim Rome | John Saunders | Stuart Scott | Howie Schwab | Dan Shulman | Michele Tafoya | Joe Theisman | Mike Tirico | Dick Vitale | Michael Wilbon -List of ESPN personalities John Anderson (born 1965) is a sports journalist from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and a host of the ESPN TV program SportsCenter since June 1999. ... Christopher (Boomer) James Berman (born May 10, 1955, in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a sportscaster, who anchors SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight, U.S. Open golf, and other programming on ESPN. He joined ESPN a month after its founding and has been with the network since. ... Bonnie Bernstein (born August 16, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television sports reporter and anchor. ... Mike Breen is a play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC. He also works NBA games for ESPN, and was formerly a play-by-play announcers for New York Giants preseason games, as well as for regular season NFL games on both FOX and NBC. Breen, a 1983... Hubert Jude Hubie Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania) is a former basketball coach and television analyst. ... Linda Cohn (born November 10, 1959) is an accomplished Jewish sportscaster who appears on ESPNs SportsCenter as an anchor. ... Chris Connelly is an American sports and entertainment reporter. ... Lee Corso (born 1936) is an American sports broadcaster and football analyst. ... Jay Crawford (Born 1965) is the co-host of ESPN2s morning TV show Cold Pizza. ... Rece Davis (born December 14, 1965 as Laurece Davis in Muscle Shoals, Alabama), has been a journalist for ESPN since 1995. ... Chris Fowler is a sports broadcaster for ESPN known best for his work on College GameDay for college football. ... Ron Franklin Ron Franklin (born Feb. ... Peter Gammons gives his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech for excellence in sportswriting on July 31, 2005. ... Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York) is an American television anchor and radio host for ESPN. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic. ... Michael Mike Golic (born December 12, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio), is co-host of ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning. ... Jay Harris is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and an ESPNEWS and SportsCenter anchor for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2003 and is normally seen on the 6pm ET SportsCenter. ... Kirk Herbstreit (born August 19, 1969, is from Centerville, Ohio). ... Fred Hickman is an anchor for ESPN. In 1977, Hickman began his broadcasting career as a news anchor at KLWW-AM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ... Thomas (Tom) Jackson also referred to TJ or Tommy (b. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Brian Kenny Brian Kenny (born October 18, 1963), currently anchors the 6pm SportsCenter for ESPN. Brian has won a National Sports Emmy for Baseball Tonight, the Sam Taub Award for broadcasting excellence in boxing, and was named Sports Illustrateds Media Personality of the Year in 2005. ... Suzy Kolber (born May 14, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a football sideline reporter, co-producer, and anchor for ESPN and ABC Sports. ... Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and columnist for The Washington Post, as well as a radio and television talk show host. ... Bob Ley (born March 16, 1955 in Newark, New Jersey) is a sportscaster for the ESPN cable-TV network. ... Steve Levy (born March 12, 1965), is currently a journalist for ESPN. Before working for ESPN, he worked in New York for WFAN. At ESPN, he usually works on SportsCenter, and he covered NHL regular season and playoff games before the network lost the rights to televise the leagues... Kenny Mayne (born September 1, 1959) is a sports journalist for ESPN. A native of Kent, Washington, Mayne was an honorable mention junior college All-American quarterback in 1978 at Wenatchee Valley Community College in Wenatchee, WA. Kenny graduated from UNLV in 1982, with a degree in Broadcasting, where he... Sean McDonough (born May 13, 1962) is an American television sportscaster. ... Jon Miller (born October 11, 1977 in San Francisco, California) is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. ... Joseph Leonard Morgan (born September 19, 1943 in Bonham, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, considered by many to be among the greatest to have played the position. ... Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939 in Portland, Oregon) is an American sportscaster for ABC. // Educated at Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism, Musburger began his career as a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago American newspaper. ... Brad Nessler, during one of ABCs broadcasts. ... Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan saint Patrick day, is an American sportscaster from Mason, Ohio. ... Mike Patrick is an American sportscaster. ... Karl Ravech (born January 19, 1965), is an American journalist for ESPN since 1993. ... Anthony Joseph Paul (Tony) Reali (born July 4, 1978 in Staten Island, New York) is the current host of Around the Horn on ESPN. He is also the stat boy on Pardon the Interruption. ... James Jim Rome (born October 14, 1964) is an American sports radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. ... John Saunders, is currently a journalist for ESPN and ABC. Before working for ESPN, he worked in Baltimore for WMAR and for City-TV in Toronto. ... Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sportscaster for ESPN, most visibly as an anchor on SportsCenter. ... Howie Schwab is best known as the sports trivia expert and final adversary on ESPNs Stump the Schwab. ... Dan Shulman (born 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born sportscaster with ESPN, serving as the networks voice for baseball games on television and radio. ... Michelle Tafoya doing her job for the cameras. ... Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann. ... Mike Tirico is the lead broadcaster for ESPNs presentation of Monday Night Football. ... Richard J. Dick Vitale, also known as Dickie V, DV, and Mr. ... Michael R. Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. ... Past and present television personalities on the ESPN network. ...



 

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