1. Johnny Holliday has maintained a long association with the University of Maryland football and basketball teams and from 2007 to 2018 hosted a pre- and post-game television program for the Washington Nationals baseball team.
12 Facts About Johnny Holliday
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Johnny Holliday began his radio career at WBBN in Perry, Georgia, then worked at WFEC in Florida, WVRM in Rochester, New York, WHK in Cleveland.
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Johnny Holliday worked closely with Murray the K at WINS in New York City and hosted the station's final music broadcast in 1965.
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Johnny Holliday moved to Washington, DC, in 1969, handling morning drive time duties for WWDC until 1978, and sports for WMAL from 1978 to 1991.
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Johnny Holliday has covered the Olympics, championship boxing, and The Masters for ABC Radio.
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Browns owner Art Modell instructed Johnny Holliday to refer to the opposing team only as the "Cowboys", without reference to the City of Dallas.
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Johnny Holliday has been the "voice" of the Maryland Terrapins football and men's basketball teams since 1979.
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Johnny Holliday has broadcast more than 1,200 University of Maryland games, including twelve bowl games in football, as well as ten Sweet Sixteen and two Final Four appearances for the basketball team, including Maryland's NCAA Championship basketball victory over Indiana in 2002.
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From 2007 to 2018, Johnny Holliday hosted the Washington Nationals baseball team pre- and post-game shows on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, Nats Xtra, with analyst Ray Knight, and occasionally filled in as a substitute play-by-play announcer for Nationals games on MASN.
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On television, Johnny Holliday was the announcer of the NBC musical variety shows Hullabaloo and The Roger Miller Show in 1966.
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Johnny Holliday has been the announcer for ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts.
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In 2014, Johnny Holliday was inducted into the Washington, DC, Sports Hall of Fame.