List of New York Rangers broadcasters
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The following are the broadcasters on TV and radio who have worked for the New York Rangers.
Television
=2020s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Rinkside reporter |width="110" |Studio host |width="110" |Studio analyst(s) |
| 2023-2024
|Sam Rosen (primary) |Joe Micheletti (primary) |
| 2022–23
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2021–22
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2021
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
=2010s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Rinkside reporter |width="110" |Studio host |width="110" |Studio analyst(s) |
| 2019–20
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2018–19
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2017–18
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2016–17
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2015–16
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2014–15
|Sam Rosen (primary) |Joe Micheletti (primary) |
| 2013–14
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2013
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2011–12
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2010–11
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
=2000s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Rinkside reporter |width="110" |Studio host |width="110" |Studio analyst(s) |
| 2009–10
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2008–09
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2007–08
|Sam Rosen (primary) |
| 2006–07
|Sam Rosen (primary) |Joe Micheletti (primary) |
| 2005–06
|Sam Rosen (primary) |John Davidson (primary) |
| 2003–04
|John Davidson (primary) | |
| 2002–03
|John Davidson (primary) | |
| 2001–02
|John Davidson (primary) | |
| 2000–01
|John Davidson (primary) | |
For the first two games of the 2008–09 season, in Prague, WEPN carried a simulcast of MSG audio with Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti in Prague, and Don La Greca and Pete Stemkowski in the New York studio for intermissions.
=1990s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Studio host |
| 1999–2000
|John Davidson (primary) |
| 1998–99
|John Davidson (primary) |
| 1997–98
|John Davidson (primary) |
| 1996–97
|John Davidson (primary) |
| 1995–96 |
| 1995 |
| rowspan="2"|1993–94
|MSG Network (main) |rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|John Davidson |rowspan="2"|Al Trautwig |
| MSG II (alternate) |
| 1992–93 |
| 1991–92 |
| 1990–91 |
=1980s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Studio host |width="110" |Studio analyst(s) |
| 1989–90 |
| rowspan="2"|1988–89
|rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|John Davidson |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck |
| WWOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1987–88
|rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|John Davidson |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck |
| WWOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1986–87
|rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|John Davidson |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1985–86
|rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|Phil Esposito |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1984–85
|rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|Phil Esposito |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1983–84
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Phil Esposito |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck or Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|John Davidson |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1982–83
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Phil Esposito |rowspan="2"|Bruce Beck or Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|Mike Eruzione |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1981–82
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Phil Esposito |rowspan="2"|Sam Rosen |rowspan="2"|Mike Eruzione |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1980–81
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
=1970s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |
| rowspan="2"|1979–80
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1978–79
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1977–78
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1976–77
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1975–76
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1974–75
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1973–74
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick and Bob Wolff |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1972–73
|rowspan="2"|Sal Marchiano |rowspan="2"|Bill Chadwick and Bob Wolff |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1971–72
|rowspan="2"|Tim Ryan |rowspan="2"|Norman Mac Lean and Bob Wolff |
| WOR-TV |
| rowspan="2"|1970–71
|rowspan="2"|Tim Ryan |rowspan="2"|Bill Mazer and Bob Wolff |
| WOR-TV |
HBO's first sports broadcast was of a New York Rangers-Vancouver Canucks NHL game, transmitted to a Service Electric cable system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1972. From 1972 to 1974, HBO used only one announcer on Rangers games so Marty Glickman, who was in charge of HBO Sports, hired other announcers to replace him when he was unavailable, generally owing to his radio commitments to Giants football.
=1960s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator |
| rowspan="2"|1969–70
|rowspan="2"|Jim Gordon |rowspan="2"|Bob Wolff |
| WOR-TV |
| 1968–69 |
| 1967–68 |
| 1966–67 |
| 1965–66 |
| 1964–65
|WPIX |
| 1963–64
|WPIX |
| 1962–63
|WPIX |
Win Eliot called the Rangers games on WPIX-11 as part of The Saturday Night Sports Special. In the early 1960s, the Rangers played Saturday afternoon games, which were tape delayed{{cite book |last=Grimm|first=George|date= 5 September 2017|title=We Did Everything But Win: Former New York Rangers Remember the Emile ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SGaCDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Saturday+Night+Sports+Special+win+elliot+wpix&pg=PT262|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn= 9781510722316}} for evening re-broadcast on Channel 11. The Saturday night{{cite web |url=https://insidehockey.com/retro-rangers-win-elliot/|title=RETRO RANGERS: WIN ELLIOT|last=Grimm|first=George|date=January 2, 2012|website=Retro Rangers}} hockey games were almost always shown at 9 p.m. Road games were usually aired live if the Rangers were at Chicago, where the game was at 8:30 p.m., and after expansion, in St. Louis or Minnesota, where 9 p.m. would be the actual start time. In the 1964–65 season, Win Elliott did all the Saturday night games until March 20, which was the first Saturday of the racing season at Aqueduct, where Elliott hosted a Saturday afternoon series. Jim Gordon therefore, did the last two Saturday nights of the season. When the Rangers weren't scheduled on Saturday nights, Channel 11 would run events such as track and field and ECAC Basketball. This occurred from 1962 to 1965, before the Knicks and Rangers moved to Channel 9. They even showed a different NHL game on occasion, which was the case on March 27, 1965, when Jim Gordon went to Toronto to do a Detroit-Toronto game for WPIX.
=1950s=
=1940s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |
| 1949–50
|WPIX |
| 1948–49
|WPIX |
| 1947–48 |
| 1946–47
|WCBW |
| 1945–46
|WCBW |
| 1944-45
|WNBT |
| 1943-44
|WNBT |
| 1942-43
|WNBT |
| 1941-42
|WNBT |
| 1940-41 |
| 1939-40 |
The Rangers' home game against the Montreal Canadiens on February 25, 1940, was the first National Hockey League game to ever be broadcast on television.
Radio
= 2020s =
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110" |Play-by-play |width="110" |Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Studio host |
| 2023–24
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2022–23
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2021–22
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2021
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
=2010s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40"| Year |width="40"|Channel |width="110"|Play-by-play |width="110"|Color commentator(s) |width="110"|Studio host |
| 2019–20
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2018–19
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2017–18
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |Don La Greca or Pat O'Keefe |
| 2016–17
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2015–16
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2014–15
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2013–14
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2012–13
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2011–12
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
| 2010–11
|WEPN |Kenny Albert (primary) |Dave Maloney (primary) |
=2000s=
=1990s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110"|Play-by-play |width="110"|Color commentator(s) |width="110"|Studio host |
| 1999–2000
|WFAN |
| 1998–99
|WFAN |
| 1997–98
|WFAN |
| 1996–97
|WFAN |
| 1995–96
|WFAN |
| 1994–95
|WFAN |
| 1993–94
|WFAN–AM 660 (main) |Marv Albert (main) |Howie Rose (main) |
| 1992–93
|WFAN |
| 1991–92
|WFAN |
| 1990–91
|WFAN |
=1980s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110"|Play-by-play |width="110"|Color commentator(s) |width="110"|Studio host |
| 1989–90
|WFAN |
| 1988–89
|WFAN |
| 1987–88
|WNBC |
| 1986–87
|WNBC |
| 1985–86
|WNBC |
| rowspan="3" |1984–85
| rowspan="3" |Marv Albert | rowspan="3" |Sal Messina | rowspan="3" |Mike Emrick |
| WPAT/WGBB/WFAS |
| WPAT/WGBB/WFAS |
| 1983–84
|WNEW |
| 1982–83
|WNEW |
| 1981–82
|WNEW |
| 1980–81
|WNEW |
=1970s=
== Notes ==
For many years when he was the radio voice of the Rangers, Marv Albert missed more games than he called. Marv had multiple commitments that forced him to miss games. The alternate radio play-by-play announcers from 1985–1987 actually did more games than Marv Albert. In his 19-year career as the color commentator, Sal Messina worked with 18 different play-by-play partners, even though nominally his only partners were Marv or Kenny Albert. Messina also did play-by-play on several games. Sal Messina also sometimes did TV, filling in for Bill Chadwick, Phil Esposito, and later John Davidson. So there were some additional radio analysts at times. Pete Stemkowski, Dave Maloney, Ron Greschner, Pierre Larouche, Emile Francis, Chris Nilan, and Ulf Nilsson filled in for Messina. During the years when only the non-televised road games were broadcast, at times the TV crew, Sal Marchiano/Bill Chadwick (in 1972–73), Jim Gordon/Chadwick, and Gordon/Phil Esposito later did the games on radio, especially on lengthy road trips.
=1960s=
=1950s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110"|Play-by-play |width="110"|Color commentator(s) |width="110" |Studio host |
| 1959–60
|WINS | colspan="2" |Jim Gordon |
| 1958–59
|WINS | colspan="2" |Jim Gordon |
| 1957–58
|WINS |
| 1956–57
|WINS |
| 1955–56
|WINS |
| 1954–55
|WMGM |
| 1953–54
|WMGM |
| 1952–53
|WMGM |
| 1951–52
|WMGM |
| 1950–51
|WMGM |
=1940s=
=1930s=
=1920s=
| class="wikitable"
|width="40" | Year |width="40" |Channel |width="110"|Play-by-play |width="110"|Studio host |
| 1928–29
|WMSG |Jack Filman{{Cite news |date=1929-03-29 |title=CAPACITY CROWD LOOMS.; Interest Keen in Tonight's Hockey Game--To Honor Thursday Tickets. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/03/29/archives/capacity-crowd-looms-interest-keen-in-tonights-hockey-gameto-honor.html |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The New York Times |page=S31 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} |
| 1927–28
|WMSG |
It was not until the 1987–88 season that all Rangers' games was broadcast locally on radio in New York; for many years prior to that, only home games and (after the late 1940s) a handful of away games were heard. Regular-season away games heard on radio after the early 1960s were generally not broadcast locally on television.
=Former affiliates (16 stations)=
- WPTR/1540: Albany
- WCSS/1490: Amsterdam
- WGBB/1240: Freeport (1984-1985)
- WHUC/1230: Hudson
- WIZR/930: Johnstown
- WMCA/570: New York City (1930-1932)
- WFAN/660: New York City (1971-1974), (1986-2004)
- WCBS/880: New York City (1962-1965)
- WPAT/930: Paterson (1984-1985)
- WINS/1010: New York City (1955-1962), (1958-1960), (1961-1962)
- WEPN/1050: New York City (1939-1955), (1965-1971), (1993-1994), (2005-2012)
- WNEW/1130: New York City (1974-1984)
- WMSG/1410: New York City (1927-1929)
- WEPN-FM/98.7: New York City (2012-2024)
- WVKZ/1240: Schenectady
- WFAS/1230: White Plains (1984-1985)
Alternate announcers
=Television=
==Play-by-play==
- Bruce Beck: 1982–1984
- Mike Crispino: 2005–2007
- John Giannone: 2005–present
- Kenny Albert: 2020–present
- Bob Wischusen: 2006–2007
==Color commentator==
- Sal Messina: 1972–2004
- Dave Maloney: 2005–present
==Studio host==
- John Giannone: 2005–present
- Bill Pidto: 2009–present
=Radio=
==Play-by-play==
- Bob Wolff: 1970–1980
- Tim Ryan: 1971–1972
- Spencer Ross: 1973–2007
- John Sterling: 1973–1974
- Jim Gordon: 1973–1984
- Sal Messina: 1975–1982
- Barry Landers: 1976–1977, 1999–2000
- Sam Rosen: 1977–1989
- Al Albert: 1982–1983
- Mike Emrick: 1983–1988
- John Kelly: 1988–1989
- Howie Rose: 1985–1995
- Kenny Albert: 1995–1997
- Al Trautwig: 1995–1997
- Gary Cohen: 1995–1997
- Chris Moore: 1995–1996
- Joe Beninati: 1996–1997
- Steve Albert: 1996–1997
- Bob Wischusen: 2000–2007
- Joe Tolleson: 2002–present
- Mike Crispino: 2005–2007
- John Giannone: 2006–2008
- Don La Greca: 2008–present
==Color commentator==
- Pete Stemkowski: 2005–Present
==Studio host==
- Steve Somers: 1990s
References
{{Reflist}}
{{New York Rangers}}
{{List of NHL broadcasters by team}}
{{NHL on USA}}