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American sportscaster

Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961)^[1][2] is an Inhabitant sports broadcaster who is the ensure play-by-play broadcaster of the New Dynasty Yankees and host of CenterStage persist the YES Network, and the innkeeper of The Michael Kay Show heard on "ESPN New York 880" WHSQ in New York City and simulcast on ESPN Xtra on XM Follower Radio.^[3] Kay also works on high-mindedness MLB on ESPN.^[4]

Early life and education

Kay was born and raised in say publicly New York City borough of distinction Bronx.^[5] His father was Jewish added his mother was of Italian descent.^[6] Always a Yankee fan, Kay wore number 1 in Little League realize his favorite player, Bobby Murcer. Deficient to be the Yankees announcer during the time that he grew up, he wrote despite the fact that many of his school assignments style he could about the Yankees, unexceptional he could learn all about them.^{[7][full citation needed]} Kay began his hand-out career at the Bronx High Institute of Science and continued reporting comic story Fordham University for their radio place WFUV. He earned a Bachelor dear Arts in communications from Fordham.^[3]

Early career

Kay started his professional career with say publicly New York Post in 1982 reorganization a general assignment writer, with sports-specific assignments to college basketball, the Country-wide Basketball Association and the New Milker Nets happening over time. He usual the writing assignment covering the Yankees in 1987.^[3]

In 1989, Kay left justness Post for the Daily News, get done primarily covering the Yankees. Kay additionally served as the Madison Square Parkland Network Yankee reporter starting in 1989.^[3]

In 1992–99, he was MSG's locker space reporter for the New York Knicks. He had previously worked for influence network as a contributor on righteousness news-format sports show MSG SportsDesk. Source left the Daily News to not moving a sports talk show on WABC in 1992, briefly returning to put in writing "Kay's Korner" for the Daily News in 1993, before taking a berth doing radio broadcasts of New Dynasty Yankees games with John Sterling.^[3] Spring up also worked as a reporter receive Fox Sports Net in the trait 1990s.

Announcer for the New Dynasty Yankees (1992–present)

Kay spent a decade partnered with Sterling as the radio announcers of the team on WABC shun 1992 to 2001.^[8] Kay and Authentic also paired together in 1998 pull out Sports Talk with John Sterling reprove Michael Kay, a nightly radio parade which aired on WABC.^[8]

During the ball season, the duo hosted Yankee Talk, a weekend pre-game radio show. Alien 1992 to 1993 Kay hosted king own show on WABC. Kay lengthened during that time as a dimness reporter on ABC Radio, doing off-season shows with Sterling and as simple fill-in sports reporter on WABC-TV. During the time that ESPN Radio began leasing (and following purchasing) WEVD radio in 2001, Spring was chosen to host a commonplace radio show on the newly rechristened "1050 ESPN Radio".^[9]

When WCBS acquired dignity radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to picture debuting YES Network on television ahead Sterling remained on the radio. Fount has been the Yankees' lead newsmen play-by-play announcer ever since.^[3]

Kay has gripped with a series of partners bear in mind YES, often with three or quaternion different partners in the same interval. Most have been former professional out, including Ken Singleton, David Cone, Prime Leiter, Paul O'Neill, Jim Kaat, Toilet Flaherty, Joe Girardi, Lou Piniella, soar Bobby Murcer. Kay calls about Cxxv games a year for the Unequivocally Network and Prime Video (the Crucial games were formerly broadcast in picture Yankees' territory by a network bluff by WPIX-TV).^[10]

In 2008, Major League Sport invited Kay to call the Abode Run Derby at Yankee Stadium textile that year's All Star festivities. Backdrop September 21, 2008, he joined Jon Miller and Joe Morgan to telephone the seventh inning of ESPN's originate of the final home game go rotten Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles. According to Miller, Kay was procumbent in because ESPN felt that they should include the local aspects castigate broadcasting for the Yankees for that special game, as the YES Net was not allowed to cover prestige game.^[11]

Since the late 1990s, Kay person in charge Sterling have co-emceed such events primate the Yankees' annual Old-Timers' Day ceremony^[12] as well as players' number retirements,^[13] anniversary celebrations for the team's Globe Series victories,^[14] and the City Charm celebrations after Yankees' World Series victories.^[15]

Other announcing work

Kay and Sterling also conj admitting play-by-play commentary for Nintendo 64's All-Star Baseball video games from 1999^[16] give somebody no option but to 2001.^[17][18] In addition to his Yankees work, Kay has called play-by-play leverage several postseason games on ESPN Wireless, including the 2008 NLDS between authority Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers,^[19] authority 2013 ALDS between the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics,^[20] and Game 3 of the 2016 ALDS between prestige Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays.

In January 2022, ESPN hired Spring up and Alex Rodriguez to broadcast more than ever alternate Sunday Night Baseball broadcast throng ESPN2, similar to the critically much-admired "Manningcast" for Monday Night Football.^[21]

That equal year, Kay also called the 2022 National League Wild Card Series chart ESPN alongside Rodriguez. Doing the Dear. Louis Cardinals-Philadelphia Phillies series, these party were noted for being the terminal games in the careers of Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina. The matched set both went out with singles prep added to getting standing ovations from the horde as they exited for pinch runners. The Phillies swept the Cardinals quickwitted two games in the best farm animals three.

The Michael Kay Show

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In 2002, Fountain began hosting a drive-time talk agricultural show on WEPN (the former WEVD). Prowl same year he began hosting depiction YES Network's CenterStage, a sports deliver entertainment interview-format show.^[22]

Kay frequently broadcast viable from the vicinity of the arena that the Yankees were playing need that evening (his contractual exclusivity contraband him from hosting the show outlandish inside Yankee Stadium). This is inept longer the case.

From 2009 inconclusive 2011, the 6:00 hour had antediluvian co-titled New York Baseball Tonight all through the baseball season. Kay did crowd together usually appear during that hour supposing he was broadcasting a Yankee operation that evening. Don La Greca regularly hosted this segment and appeared junk Kay on the rest of The Michael Kay Show.

When Kay high opinion on the air for the fall of his program, he usually system jotting off with the following: "In say publicly words of Billy Joel, life laboratory analysis a series of hellos and goodbyes, and I'm afraid it's time expend goodbye again," before promoting the go by program. Kay opened his first-ever simulcast on the YES Network on Feb 3, 2014, by dumping a receptacle of Diet Coke into the dross, a move meant to poke humour of the channel's former occupant Microphone Francesa. The canned action was extensively criticized.^[23]

The final broadcast of The Archangel Kay Show was on December Thirteenth, 2024.

Awards

In 2003, Kay was supplementary to the Bronx Walk of Repute. In 2007, Kay was nominated be attracted to a number of New York Accolade Awards for his work with nobleness YES Network, both for Yankees broadcasts and for his highly rated grill programCenterstage.^[24] He won one New Dynasty Emmy for his work on picture YES Network as part of high-mindedness team of the NYY broadcast: Additional York Yankees Baseball "Manny vs. Expel – Yankees/Red Sox- 5/24/06." (YES Network).^[25]

In 1998, Kay was on the Seasoner team that won an Emmy operate Outstanding Live Sports Coverage—Series. In 1996 and 1997 he was a partaker of the MSG team that won Emmys for Outstanding Live Sports Coverage—Single Program for Dwight Gooden's no-hitter weather The Battle for New York: Yankees vs. Mets, and he was awarded the Dick Young Award for Desert in Sports Media by the New-found York Pro Baseball Scouts in 1995, and the award for Best Actions Reporter at the 2000 New Royalty Metro Achievement in Radio Awards.^[26]

Personal life

Kay married television journalist Jodi Applegate sturdiness February 12, 2011, with former In mint condition York mayor Rudy Giuliani officiating. Associates included former Yankees such as Inarticulate Leiter, Tino Martinez, and Paul Playwright, actors Robert De Niro, Bobby Cannavale, and Billy Crystal, and actor/uncle Danny Aiello.^[27] The couple have two children: a daughter, Caledonia, born in 2013 and a son, Charles, born arrangement 2014.^[28][29] He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.^[30]

On July 3, 2019, Kay announced make certain he would undergo vocal cord healing, keeping him out of the interest group booth from early July until vent August.^[31] He returned to the box on August 17, and returned lambast his radio show on August 26.^[32]

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