List of Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasters
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[edit] Current broadcasters
One constant in the Dodgers' broadcast booth since their move from Brooklyn, New York has been Vin Scully. Scully joined the Dodgers in 1950, working with Red Barber. Barber had been calling Dodgers games since 1939. Ernie Harwell began his career with the Dodgers; he called Giants and Orioles games before he became the voice of the Detroit Tigers.
Jerry Doggett (September 14, 1916 - July 7, 1997) joined Scully for 31 seasons (1957-1987), and was replaced by Don Drysdale in 1988, who in return was replaced by Rick Monday after Drysdale's death. Ross Porter, who was an announcer/anchor for NBC Sports and KNBC-TV, was with the Dodgers from 1977 - 2004. Former ESPN reporter/announcer and Yankees radio voice Charley Steiner replaced Porter before the 2005 season. Jaime Jarrin has been the Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcaster since 1959.
[edit] Broadcast outlets
Since 2006, the over-the-air games have aired on KCAL-TV (Channel 9) after the two parties signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal in 2005, and will air 50 games per season. Since 1997, The cable television home of the Dodgers has been Fox Sports Net Prime Ticket (previously known as Fox Sports Net West 2). The previous over-the-air television homes for the Dodgers were KCOP-TV (Channel 13) from 2002-2005, KTLA-TV (Channel 5) from 1993-2001, and KTTV (Channel 11) from 1958-1992. In their New York days, WOR (Channel 9, now WWOR-TV) carried Dodgers games from 1951 until their move following the season of 1957.
Starting in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, the Dodgers put a small number of their home games on a subscription/pay-per-view service appropriately carried Dodgervision. During that timeframe, in addition to the road telecasts from KTTV, selected home games were also televised on the ON-TV subscription service, the now-defunct Z Channel/SportsChannel Los Angeles network, and then again, on a pay-per-view basis until a majority of Dodgers games debuted on the then-new Fox Sports Net West 2 in 1997, just around the same time FSN West 2's parent company, News Corporation (also owner of KTTV) bought the team from the O'Malley family. In relation to News Corp's purchase of the Dodgers, there was speculation that the Dodgers over-the-air telecasts would return to KTTV, but they were still under contract to KTLA. KTLA's contract with the Dodgers ended in 2001, and the over-the-air telecasts then moved to KTTV's now-sister station, KCOP, with the production handled by FSN West 2.
On radio, the Dodgers will be broadcast in 2008 on KABC (790 AM), which had previously been the flagship station from 1973-1997. The games had aired on KFWB (980 AM) from 2002-2007. Other station to carry the Dodgers included KXTA (1150 AM; now KTLK-AM), which was a sports-talk station, from 1998-2001 and KFI (640 AM) was the radio flagship from 1961 to 1972. And previous to that, KMPC (710 AM, now KSPN) was the original flagship radio station in Los Angeles of the vast Dodgers Radio Network, which is carried on 16 stations in five states (California, Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii, Florida, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands). Their Spanish radio network is led by KHJ which takes over in 2008 from longtime home KWKW (1330 AM), with Jarrin, Pepe Yñiguez, and former Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela on the call, and is carried on six stations in California, Nevada, and Arizona.
Scully normally does all nine innings (plus extra innings if necessary) on locally televised games (KCAL and FSN Prime Ticket), with the first three innings being simulcast on radio, while Steiner and Monday take over in the final innings on radio. However, Scully's current schedule calls for him to work only the home games and road games within the National League Western division, as he decided in recent years to cut back on his schedule. In Scully's absence, Steiner and Steve Lyons (a former analyst for Fox Sports' national baseball coverage) work the games together on television only, while Monday and former Dodger pitching great Jerry Reuss call the game on the radio network. Reuss is considered a guest analyst, therefore he is not officially listed on the roster of Dodger broadcasters.
[edit] List of current and former broadcasters
- Red Barber (1939-53)
- Andre Baruch (1954-55)
- Rene Cardenas (Spanish; 1958-61, 1982-98)
- Connie Desmond (1934-56)
- Jerry Doggett (1957-87)
- Don Drysdale (1988-93)
- Jose Garcia (Spanish, 1962-72)
- Alan Hale, Sr. (1942)
- Ernie Harwell (1948-49)
- Al Helfer (1939-41, 1956-57)
- Rudy Hoyos (1973-81)
- Jaime Jarrin (Spanish, 1959-present)
- Rick Monday (1993-present)
- Ross Porter (1977-2004)
- Tito Rondon (1990)
- Vin Scully (1950-present)
- Charley Steiner (2005-present)
- Fernando Valenzuela (Spanish, 2003-present)
- Pepe Yñiguez (Spanish, 1998-present)
