The following are the broadcasters on TV and radio who have worked for the
New York Rangers
.
Television
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2020s
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2010s
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2000s
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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
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1980s
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1970s
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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
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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
[1]
for evening re-broadcast on Channel 11. The Saturday night
[2]
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
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1940s
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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
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2020s
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Year
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Channel
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Play-by-play
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Color commentator
(s)
|
Studio host
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2023?24
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WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Ed Cohen
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
|
Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
|
2022?23
|
WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Ed Cohen
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
|
Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
|
2021?22
|
WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Ed Cohen
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
|
Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
|
2021
|
WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Ed Cohen
(select games during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
TNT
,
Knicks on MSG
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
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2010s
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Year
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Channel
|
Play-by-play
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Color commentator
(s)
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Studio host
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2019?20
|
WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
|
Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
|
2018?19
|
WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
|
Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
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2017?18
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WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
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Don La Greca
or Pat O'Keefe
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2016?17
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WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
Sam Rosen
(during select national broadcasts)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
|
Don La Greca
or
Joe Tolleson
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2015?16
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WEPN
|
Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
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Don La Greca
or
Joe Tolleson
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2014?15
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WEPN
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Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
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Don La Greca
or
Joe Tolleson
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2013?14
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WEPN
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Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
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Don La Greca
or
Joe Tolleson
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2012?13
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WEPN
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Kenny Albert
(primary)
Don La Greca
(during Albert's
NFL on Fox
,
NBC Sports
,
Knicks on MSG
, or
MLB on Fox
TV assignments)
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Dave Maloney
(primary)
Pete Stemkowski
(during Maloney's absences)
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2011?12
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WEPN
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Kenny Albert
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Dave Maloney
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2010?11
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WEPN
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Kenny Albert
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Dave Maloney
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2000s
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1990s
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1980s
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1970s
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Notes
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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
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1950s
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1940s
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1930s
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1920s
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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 (5 stations)
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Alternate announcers
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Television
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