1. Tim Brando was born on February 27,1956 and is an American sportscaster with Fox Sports.
12 Facts About Tim Brando
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Formerly with CBS Sports, Raycom Sports, ESPN and SiriusXM, Brando has primarily covered NCAA football, basketball and the NBA.
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In 1976 Tim Brando was a disc jockey at radio station KROK-FM in his native Shreveport, Louisiana.
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From 1981 to 1986, Tim Brando was the assistant sports director at WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge; he did telecasts of Louisiana State University men's and women's basketball on Tigervision.
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Tim Brando called Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Braves games for SportSouth.
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In 1996, Tim Brando joined CBS Sports and began calling NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games.
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Tim Brando provided play-by-play for the NFL on CBS from 1998 to 2003.
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On June 25,2014, Fox Sports announced that it had hired Tim Brando to serve as a play-by-play voice for college football and college basketball games on Fox and Fox Sports 1 starting in fall 2014.
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Tim Brando called an NFL game for Fox on October 19,2014, the Minnesota Vikings at the Buffalo Bills.
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Tim Brando's father, Hub Tim Brando, was a broadcaster at radio station KCIJ in Shreveport.
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Tim Brando graduated in 1974 from Fair Park High School in Shreveport.
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Tim Brando then attended Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe.