The city's top announcers are less concerned about their job security than the impact on radio culture.
Jimmy Lennon Sr. (April 13, 1913 - April 20, 1992) was one of the top announcers of the boxing and wrestling world.
He has been the NFL on CBS's top play-by-play announcer since 2004.
He is the host of NCAA Football Insider and the top announcers in the history of Dallas sports.
As televised sports withdraws from the world, it gets more and more masculine, which is reflected and expressed by its top announcers.
Though never the top announcer for a network, Criqui has always been a featured announcer in the American sports scene.
Ebersol also said that Costas was his choice to be the top play-by-play announcer when NBC started N.B.A. telecasts in 1990.
But in 1966, NBC wanted their regular network announcer, Curt Gowdy, to call most of the play-by-play at the expense of the top local announcers.
Then Michael Palin came out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only ever wanted to be a lumberjack.
McDonough emerged as the top play-by-play announcer.