Television

2020s

2010s

2000s

For the first two games of the 2008–09 season, in

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, WEPN carried a

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of MSG audio with Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti in Prague, and

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and Pete Stemkowski in the New York studio for intermissions.

1990s

1980s

1970s

HBO's first sports broadcast was of a

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NHL game, transmitted to a

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cable system in

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on November 8,

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. From 1972 to 1974, HBO used only one announcer on Rangers games so

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, who was in charge of

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, hired other announcers to replace him when he was unavailable, generally owing to his radio commitments to

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football.

1960s

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 for evening re-broadcast on Channel 11. The Saturday night hockey games were almost always shown at 9 p.m. Road games were usually aired live if the Rangers were at

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, where the game was at 8:30 p.m., and after expansion, in

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, 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

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game for WPIX.

1950s

1940s

The Rangers' home game against the

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on February 25, 1940, was the first

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game to ever be broadcast on television.

Radio

2020s

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

Notes

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

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actually did more games than Marv Albert. In his 19-year career as the color commentator,

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worked with 18 different play-by-play partners, even though nominally his only partners were Marv or

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. Messina also did play-by-play on several games. Sal Messina also sometimes did TV, filling in for

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, and later John Davidson. So there were some additional radio analysts at times. Pete Stemkowski, Dave Maloney, Ron Greschner,

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, and Ulf Nilsson filled in for Messina. During the years when only the non-televised road games were broadcast, at times the TV crew,

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/Bill Chadwick (in 1972–73), Jim Gordon/Chadwick, and Gordon/

later did the games on radio, especially on lengthy road trips.

1960s

1950s

1940s

1930s

1920s

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.

Alternate announcers

Television

Play-by-play

* Bruce Beck: 1982–1984 * Mike Crispino: 2005–2007
John Giannone
2005–Present *

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: 2006–2007

Color commentator

: 1972–2004 * Dave Maloney: 2005–2007

Studio host

John Giannone
2005–Present *

Bill Pidto Bill Pidto (born April 20, 1965) is a former radio personality on Mad Dog Radio on the show ''The B-Team'' and is currently an anchor for MSG Network's coverage of New York Rangers road games and select New York Knicks games. He was formerly a j ...

: 2009–Present

Radio

Play-by-play

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: 1970–1980 * Tim Ryan: 1971–1972 *

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: 1973-2007 * John Sterling: 1973–1974 * Jim Gordon: 1973–1984 *

: 1975–1982 * Barry Landers: 1976–1977, 1999–2000 * Sam Rosen: 1977–1989 * Al Albert: 1982–1983 * Mike Emrick: 1983–1988 * John Kelly: 1988–1989 *

Howie Rose Howard Jeffrey Rose (born February 13, 1954) is an American sportscaster. He is currently a radio broadcaster for the New York Mets on WCBS. Previously, Rose called play-by-play for the New York Rangers and New York Islanders. Early life Rose ...

: 1985–1995 *

: 1995–1997 *

Al Trautwig Alan Trautwig (born February 26, 1956) is a sports commentator who worked with MSG Network, ABC, NBC, NBC Sports Network, and USA Network. He most recently did pre-game and post-game shows for the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, as well a ...

: 1995–1997 *

Gary Cohen Gary Cohen (born ) is an American sportscaster, best known as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. Cohen currently calls Mets broadcasts for SNY and WPIX and Seton Hall basketball gam ...

: 1995–1997 * Chris Moore: 1995–1996 *

Joe Beninati Joseph Edward Beninati (born November 14, 1965) is an American sportscaster who serves as the television play-by-play announcer for the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals. Along with Capitals television color analyst Craig Laughlin a ...

: 1996–1997 *

Steve Albert Steve Albert (born Stephen Aufrichtig in Brooklyn, New York;April 26, 1952) is a former American sportscaster. He has served as a play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Nets, New Orleans Hornets, Golden State Warriors, New York Mets, and Phoe ...

: 1996–1997 *

: 2000–2007 *

Joe Tolleson Joe Tolleson is an American sports broadcaster. He has been the play-by-play broadcaster for New York City Football Club on the YES Network since their inaugural season in 2015 and the public address announcer for the New York Rangers since 2002. ...

: 2002–present * Mike Crispino: 2005–2007 * John Giannone: 2006–2008 *

: 2008–present

Color commentator

* Pete Stemkowski: 2005–Present

Studio host

*Steve Somers: 1990s

References

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