Timothy James Roye is an American radio

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announcer for the

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. Prior to joining the Warriors, he had worked in radio in Utica, Birmingham, Phoenix, and Sacramento, with occupations from play-by-play announcing to hosting radio shows and being a sports radio director. He has been calling Warrior games for over 20 seasons and is currently heard on 95.7 The Game, an FM station in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Early life and education

Roye is a native of

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. He attended

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in New York and graduated with a

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in public relations and journalism in 1981. While in college, in 1978, Roye started as the sports director for Utica's

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/ WNYZ. As sports director, he hosted sports talk shows, did play-by-play for area sports, and called the Utica Boilermaker Road Race. He held this position until 1986. In 2013, Roye was inducted into Utica College's Pioneer Hall of Fame.

Career

In 1986 Roye moved to

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and was the sports director at WVOK radio as well as the voice for the

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men's basketball team. In 1987, he moved to

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where he had a talk show on KTAR radio, worked as a correspondent on the radio for the

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, covered

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basketball and baseball, and the

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minor league baseball team. In 1989 he joined the

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’ broadcast team, handling radio broadcasts on

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-AM and KFBK-AM. He was a sports director for KFBK for five of the six seasons, and later hosted a daily sports talk show on KHTK as well a two-hour weekly Kings program. Besides covering the Kings, Roye covered other local sports teams on radio and television including the

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of the

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and the

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sports teams. In 1995, Roye joined the

' broadcast team where he did play-by-play for the Warriors on

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(680 AM & 1050 AM), the club's flagship station. In addition to covering the Warriors games, he hosted a weekly one-hour show called "Warriors Weekly Roundtable", where he interviewed guests, take calls, and preview the upcoming opponent. He also reads emails sent to ''Tim Roye's Journal''. On occasion, he has filled in as an interim talk show host for KNBR as well as do play-by-play for the Warriors television broadcasts. For the 2016–17 season, when the Warriors changed radio stations from KNBR to 95.7 The Game, Roye stayed as the play-by-play announcer for the team. In 2022, Roye called

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games on

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Catchphrases

* "Elevation Sensation": When a player leaps very high and dunks it down, often

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another player. Named after a dunk by

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. * "Air France": referring to

Mickaël Piétrus Mickaël Marvin Soriano Piétrus (; born February 7, 1982) is a French former professional basketball player. Listed at 6'6", 215 pounds, he played both the small forward and shooting guard positions. Piétrus was drafted by the Golden State Warr ...

. * "Un-be-lievable": When a player makes an incredible play or shot.

Notable calls

Roye was on the call for game 6 of the 2015 NBA Finals, when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their first NBA championship since 1975

Personal life

Tim lives in

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with his wife, Cinde, and their two children, Zachary James and Gabby.

References

External links

*
Tim Roye profile
at NBA.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Roye, Tim Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio personalities Canadian Football League announcers College basketball announcers in the United States College football announcers Golden State Warriors announcers Oakland Athletics announcers People from Chula Vista, California People from Fairfield, California Sacramento Kings announcers Sportspeople from Utica, New York Utica University alumni