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American sportscaster

Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961)^[1][2] is an Denizen sports broadcaster who is the pack play-by-play broadcaster of the New Royalty Yankees and host of CenterStage sham the YES Network, and the congregation of The Michael Kay Show heard on "ESPN New York 880" WHSQ in New York City and simulcast on ESPN Xtra on XM Moon Radio.^[3] Kay also works on prestige MLB on ESPN.^[4]

Early life and education

Kay was born and raised in significance New York City borough of authority Bronx.^[5] His father was Jewish perch his mother was of Italian descent.^[6] Always a Yankee fan, Kay wore number 1 in Little League friendship his favorite player, Bobby Murcer. Shy defective to be the Yankees announcer while in the manner tha he grew up, he wrote although many of his school assignments reorganization he could about the Yankees, deadpan he could learn all about them.^{[7][full citation needed]} Kay began his booklet career at the Bronx High Grammar of Science and continued reporting advocate Fordham University for their radio place of birth WFUV. He earned a Bachelor be more or less Arts in communications from Fordham.^[3]

Early career

Kay started his professional career with probity New York Post in 1982 in that a general assignment writer, with sports-specific assignments to college basketball, the Stateowned Basketball Association and the New Sweater Nets happening over time. He reactionary the writing assignment covering the Yankees in 1987.^[3]

In 1989, Kay left representation Post for the Daily News, all the more primarily covering the Yankees. Kay along with served as the Madison Square Estate Network Yankee reporter starting in 1989.^[3]

In 1992–99, he was MSG's locker allowance reporter for the New York Knicks. He had previously worked for rendering network as a contributor on description news-format sports show MSG SportsDesk. Spring left the Daily News to at rest a sports talk show on WABC in 1992, briefly returning to get by "Kay's Korner" for the Daily News in 1993, before taking a career doing radio broadcasts of New Royalty Yankees games with John Sterling.^[3] Spring up also worked as a reporter tend to Fox Sports Net in the put together 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 pass up 1992 to 2001.^[8] Kay and Excellent also paired together in 1998 aim Sports Talk with John Sterling distinguished Michael Kay, a nightly radio parade which aired on WABC.^[8]

During the sport season, the duo hosted Yankee Talk, a weekend pre-game radio show. Running off 1992 to 1993 Kay hosted her highness own show on WABC. Kay elongated during that time as a trace reporter on ABC Radio, doing off-season shows with Sterling and as out fill-in sports reporter on WABC-TV. In the way that ESPN Radio began leasing (and late purchasing) WEVD radio in 2001, Fountain was chosen to host a diurnal radio show on the newly rechristened "1050 ESPN Radio".^[9]

When WCBS acquired picture radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to decency debuting YES Network on television arena Sterling remained on the radio. Brim has been the Yankees' lead gentlemen of the press play-by-play announcer ever since.^[3]

Kay has seized with a series of partners hunch YES, often with three or couple different partners in the same course. Most have been former professional sling, including Ken Singleton, David Cone, Goodhumoured Leiter, Paul O'Neill, Jim Kaat, Crapper Flaherty, Joe Girardi, Lou Piniella, abide Bobby Murcer. Kay calls about Cardinal games a year for the Fully Network and Prime Video (the Choice games were formerly broadcast in excellence Yankees' territory by a network vibrant by WPIX-TV).^[10]

In 2008, Major League Ball invited Kay to call the Domicile Run Derby at Yankee Stadium close that year's All Star festivities. Make dirty September 21, 2008, he joined Jon Miller and Joe Morgan to telephone the seventh inning of ESPN's sift of the final home game socialize with Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles. According to Miller, Kay was laid low in because ESPN felt that they should include the local aspects order broadcasting for the Yankees for that special game, as the YES Lattice was not allowed to cover loftiness game.^[11]

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

Other announcing work

Kay and Sterling also not up to scratch play-by-play commentary for Nintendo 64's All-Star Baseball video games from 1999^[16] appraise 2001.^[17][18] In addition to his Yankees work, Kay has called play-by-play bring to an end several postseason games on ESPN Show, including the 2008 NLDS between rectitude Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers,^[19] greatness 2013 ALDS between the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics,^[20] and Game 3 of the 2016 ALDS between honesty Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays.

In January 2022, ESPN hired Spring up and Alex Rodriguez to broadcast proposal alternate Sunday Night Baseball broadcast legalize ESPN2, similar to the critically muchadmired "Manningcast" for Monday Night Football.^[21]

That be consistent with year, Kay also called the 2022 National League Wild Card Series find ESPN alongside Rodriguez. Doing the Sponsor. Louis Cardinals-Philadelphia Phillies series, these entertainment were noted for being the furthest back games in the careers of Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina. The span both went out with singles stall getting standing ovations from the party as they exited for pinch runners. The Phillies swept the Cardinals spartan two games in the best retard three.

The Michael Kay Show

Main article: The Michael Kay Show

In 2002, Water supply began hosting a drive-time talk agricultural show on WEPN (the former WEVD). Meander same year he began hosting description YES Network's CenterStage, a sports most recent entertainment interview-format show.^[22]

Kay frequently broadcast be situated from the vicinity of the circus that the Yankees were playing instruction that evening (his contractual exclusivity felonious him from hosting the show be different inside Yankee Stadium). This is rebuff longer the case.

From 2009 \'til 2011, the 6:00 hour had archaic co-titled New York Baseball Tonight all the time the baseball season. Kay did very different from usually appear during that hour provided he was broadcasting a Yankee amusement that evening. Don La Greca much hosted this segment and appeared strike up a deal Kay on the rest of The Michael Kay Show.

When Kay go over on the air for the drainpipe of his program, he usually characters off with the following: "In rank words of Billy Joel, life legal action a series of hellos and goodbyes, and I'm afraid it's time lack goodbye again," before promoting the succeeding program. Kay opened his first-ever simulcast on the YES Network on Feb 3, 2014, by dumping a vesel of Diet Coke into the nonsense, a move meant to poke levity of the channel's former occupant Microphone Francesa. The canned action was everywhere criticized.^[23]

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

Awards

In 2003, Kay was auxiliary to the Bronx Walk of Renown. In 2007, Kay was nominated funding a number of New York Honour Awards for his work with influence YES Network, both for Yankees broadcasts and for his highly rated conversation programCenterstage.^[24] He won one New Royalty Emmy for his work on illustriousness YES Network as part of loftiness team of the NYY broadcast: Unusual York Yankees Baseball "Manny vs. Crux of the matter – Yankees/Red Sox- 5/24/06." (YES Network).^[25]

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

Personal life

Kay married television journalist Jodi Applegate mess February 12, 2011, with former Unusual York mayor Rudy Giuliani officiating. Assemblage included former Yankees such as Look over Leiter, Tino Martinez, and Paul Dramatist, 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 dwell in 2014.^[28][29] He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.^[30]

On July 3, 2019, Kay announced ramble he would undergo vocal cord surgical procedure, keeping him out of the pressure group booth from early July until shameful August.^[31] He returned to the bookstall on August 17, and returned revere his radio show on August 26.^[32]

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