Robert Wischusen (born October 1, 1971) is an American sports commentator who is currently a hockey, college football and basketball voice for

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and the radio voice announcer for the

New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The J ...

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Biography

Early life and career

Wischusen grew up in

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, and attended

Union Catholic Regional High School Union Catholic Regional High School is a private Catholic high school located in Scotch Plains, in Union County, New Jersey, United States. Its motto promises to provide a "quality education in a faith-based environment." Founded in 1962 as se ...

in Scotch Plains. He then attended

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

and began his sportscasting experience on

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, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area. Classmates and fellow broadcasters at WZBC included

Joe Tessitore Joseph William Tessitore (born January 1, 1971) is an American sportscaster for ABC and ESPN. He leads ESPN's world championship fight broadcasts as the blow-by-blow broadcaster for Top Rank Boxing on ESPN, serves as a play-by-play announcer f ...

and

Jon Sciambi Jon "Boog" Sciambi (; born April 11, 1970) is an American sportscaster for ESPN and the Marquee Sports Network, currently the everyday play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs TV broadcasts. He has worked extensively as a baseball play-by-pla ...

, both of whom also went on to become successful sports announcers. After graduating from B.C. in 1993, Wischusen went to work in sports radio at

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in Miami. After leaving the station he settled in New York, where he has worked since.

WFAN and WABC

Originally, Wischusen worked for

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as a reporter and update host for the station's sports news flashes that air every twenty minutes. During his time at WFAN he began working on the station's Jets coverage, hosting the pregame, halftime, and postgame shows. When WFAN lost the rights to the Jets after the 1998 season, Wischusen followed the coverage to WABC. In 2002, he became the play-by-play voice for the Jets on the station after

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departed the team for a job in Miami. During his time with the Jets, he has worked with Dave Jennings and

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as his color commentators.

ESPN

Wischusen began working for ESPN in 2006 as a secondary commentator for college football and basketball, usually calling games from mid-major conferences such as the MAC or WAC. In 2009, Wischusen called

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college football regional action on

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at 3:30(ET) with

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. For the 2010 college football season, Wischusen was once again paired with Griese, this time calling games for the Noon(ET) ESPN2 broadcast. Wischusen is currently calling with

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. In 2021, Andrew Marchand of the ''

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'' reported that Wischusen would start calling play-by-play for the

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Other duties

In addition to those duties, Wischusen is a substitute announcer for WEPN and

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's coverage of the

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when the announcer

Mike Breen Michael Breen (born May 22, 1961) is an American play-by-play sports commentator for '' NBA on ABC'' and is the lead announcer for New York Knicks games on the MSG Network. Breen also calls NBA games for ESPN and was formerly a play-by-play anno ...

is unavailable due to other commitments. Wischusen also announced for the

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team during its first season alongside former Jet

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with whom he currently calls games for the New York Jets Wischusen also served as a field reporter for

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's coverage of Game 1 of the

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between the

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and

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. In 2010, Wischusen teams with

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to anchor coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament on

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References

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