Kevin Harlan is the lead NFL radio voice nationally for Westwood One and Monday Night Football since 2009.
27 Facts About Kevin Harlan
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Kevin Harlan has broadcast more than 500 NFL games on network TV, top 10 all time joining names like Al Michaels and Pat Summerall for play-by-play.
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Until 2008, Kevin Harlan was the voice of Westwood One Radio's Final Four coverage of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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Kevin Harlan calls the preseason games of his hometown Packers for the team's statewide television network since 2003.
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Kevin Harlan began broadcasting as a teenager for his alma mater Our Lady of Premontre High School's high school radio station, WGBP-FM, calling play-by-play for the school's boys' basketball, football and ice hockey teams.
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Kevin Harlan was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Kevin Harlan was a ball boy with the Green Bay Packers in his teens during the time that his father, Bob Harlan, was a Packers executive in the front office.
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Kevin Harlan was introduced to the Jayhawks' primary basketball play-by-play announcer at the time, Tom Hedrick, who noted Kevin Harlan's zeal for sports broadcasting and immediately considered him a protege in the making.
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In 1982, right out of college, at age 22, Kevin Harlan became the TV and radio voice of the NBA's Kansas City Kings.
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Kevin Harlan was then a basketball announcer for his alma mater, the University of Kansas, for one year, then went on to call games for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs from 1985 to 1993 after several years hosting and producing surrounding pre-game and post-game programming while still in college.
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Kevin Harlan has been the longest running NBA play by play announcer for TNT in their 39-year history broadcasting the NBA.
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Kevin Harlan has broadcast more NBA games for TNT than any other announcer.
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Kevin Harlan began working for CBS in 1998 after four years at FOX.
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Kevin Harlan has lent his voice on the NBA 2K video game series since 2005.
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In 2017, Kevin Harlan was voted by his peers as National Sportscaster of the Year by the NSMA.
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Kevin Harlan again was voted National Sportscaster of the Year by the NSMA in 2019.
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Kevin Harlan was named 2019 National Sportscaster of the Year by The Athletic.
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In September 2019 Kevin Harlan was inducted into the Notre Dame Academy High School Hall of Fame.
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Kevin Harlan was again voted National Sportscaster of the Year in 2023.
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Kevin Harlan has a history of injecting humor into situations during games whenever he can, in addition to being able to dramatize even mundane moments not related to the game itself.
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March 13,1999 - Working his first NCAA Tournament for CBS, Kevin Harlan was assigned first and second round games in the West Region, played in Seattle.
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Kevin Harlan then proceeded to give a play-by-play of security chasing the man.
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February 4,2018 - Kevin Harlan called Super Bowl LII on the radio for Westwood One when, with just moments left in the second quarter, the Philadelphia Eagles ran a trick play, now known as the Philly Special.
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May 12,2019 - Kevin Harlan was the play-by-play announcer for TNT's coverage of Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Toronto Raptors.
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May 12,2024 - During Game 4 of the second round playoff series between the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves Kevin Harlan made a call just as the halftime buzzer was sounding.
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Kevin Harlan has been married to his wife Ann for 37 years, and together they have four children and five grandchildren.
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Kevin Harlan is married to former NBA player Sam Dekker, who plays pro basketball in London and in the EuroLeague.