The Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network is a network that consists of 27 radio stations that air Major League Baseball games of the Los Angeles Dodgers in parts of seven states and one U.S. territory and in three languages. As of June 2012, 20 stations broadcast games in English, while another six broadcast them in Spanish. In 2013, Korean broadcasts were added, making it the only tri-lingual network in Major League Baseball.
33-540: The primary English-language radio broadcasts are handled by Charley Steiner and Tim Neverett on play-by-play and Rick Monday on color commentary . Until his 2016 retirement, Vin Scully 's television play-by-play for SportsNet LA (previously Prime Ticket ) was simulcast during the first three innings of games that he called (primarily home games, and away games in California and Arizona). Steiner and Monday called
66-632: A Clarion award for his coverage of the Mike Tyson rape trial. Bradley named its school of sports communication for Steiner at a ceremony in March, 2015. RKO Radio Network The RKO Radio Network was commercial radio network that operated in the USA from 1979 to 1985. The network was a subsidiary of the RKO General broadcasting company. It became RKO Radio Networks when a second network
99-778: A Jewish family in Malverne, New York , already idolizing Vin Scully at the age of seven. He attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois , graduating in 1971. Steiner began his career as a newscaster for WIRL radio in Peoria, in 1969, while still a student at Bradley. In 1971, after graduation from college, he began hosting his first sports show on KSTT radio in Davenport, Iowa . A year later, Steiner moved to New Haven, Connecticut , and worked for WAVZ radio as its news director, before moving north to Hartford and WPOP radio in
132-601: A contentious relationship during their three years together. Steiner left the Yankees after the following season, his last game being the infamous Game 7 of the 2004 American League Championship Series in which the Red Sox completed its historic series victory over its rivals after trailing 3 games to 0. He was originally slated to move to the YES Network as a studio host, but after Ross Porter , longtime radio voice of
165-721: A similar capacity. In 1977, Steiner relocated to WERE (1300 AM) in Cleveland, Ohio , where he served as a sportscaster and later news director. While in Cleveland, he received his first television exposure when WKYC-TV hired him as a sports commentator. Steiner entered the New York market in 1978 at WXLO-FM where he did newscasts for, among others, then-morning host and future actor Jay Thomas . He later moved over to sister station WOR for several years as its morning drive sportscaster , while working simultaneously as
198-562: A young adult audience, had a conversational, high-energy style developed by co-founders Dave Cooke (Vice President and News Director) and Jo Interrante (Vice President of Programming). The original network fed newscasts at :50 repeated at :00. RKO 2 was aimed at an older audience, and fed newscasts at :20 repeated at :30. Both networks offered sportscasts, music, public affairs programming and closed-circuit affiliate feeds of news and sports correspondent reports. The networks were home to three groundbreaking long-form programs. The network aired
231-611: Is also the play-by-play announcer replacing Pepe Yniguez and Fernando Valenzuela who are now on Spectrum SportsNet LA 's Spanish-language channel. California New Mexico In 2013, the Dodgers announced that 60 games would be aired in Korean on KMPC AM 1540. Richard Choi does play-by-play while Chong Ho Yim does color commentary. As of 2014, selected Dodger games are broadcast on AM 1540, while all games are broadcast in Korean on
264-510: Is seen cowering under a desk. In another promo for the campaign, Steiner talks about how at ESPN the personalities can cover the sports that they enjoy and he says that his is boxing. During the promo several personalities try to pick a fight with him and he walks away from them all until the end when Steiner is getting into his car and Otto the Orange comes up to him and Steiner takes out all of his frustrations out on Otto by punching him square in
297-723: The Daily Mirror , stuck his index finger in Steiner's face. Clarke then got up on a chair and attempted to rain punches down on Steiner who successfully wrestled his adversary to the floor. Surprisingly, Steiner later was personally thanked by the head of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club who also had a disdain for the British tabloids . Steiner joined ESPN in 1988, primarily as an anchor on SportsCenter . In addition to those duties, he served as
330-575: The All-Star Game , and postseason games. (Steiner never worked the World Series while he was calling games for ESPN Radio, however, as those were covered by then-lead TV voice Jon Miller .) Steiner's most controversial home run call came in the 2001 All-Star Game at Safeco Field on July 10. His utterance of "Who wrote this script?" to punctuate Cal Ripken Jr. 's third- inning homer off Chan-Ho Park fueled speculation about whether
363-733: The Boston Red Sox . There's a fly ball deep to left... it's on its way... there it goes... and the Yankees are going to the World Series ! Aaron Boone has hit a home run! The Yankees go to the World Series for the thirty-ninth time in their remarkable history! Aaron Boone down the left field line... they are waiting for him at home plate, and now he dives into the scrum! The Yankees win it, six to five! After Steiner completed his call, he joined Sterling in his famous "Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!" call, saying he "had always wanted to do that". Steiner and Sterling reportedly had
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#1732798165177396-585: The Los Angeles Dodgers (Steiner's favorite team growing up, with the team still based in Brooklyn ) was let go by the team, Steiner was hired to take his place. For four years covering the 2005 through 2008 seasons, the Dodgers' unique broadcasting arrangement had Steiner teamed with analyst Rick Monday and working play-by-play on radio during all home and intra-divisional road games. However, Steiner's duties during these games would begin with
429-542: The Second Audio Program of Spectrum SportsNet LA . Charley Steiner Charles Harris Steiner (born July 17, 1949 ) is an American sportscaster and broadcast journalist . He is currently the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers , paired with Rick Monday . Steiner was born in 1949 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City . He grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in
462-683: The Jets' September 1986 overtime victory (51–45) over the Dolphins are used in retrospectives on that game. Steiner was also interviewed on the 1986 New York Jets – Cleveland Browns playoff game in which he proclaimed the Jets would win following a fourth-quarter touchdown only to see the Browns tie the game and win in double overtime. When ESPN Radio gained broadcast rights for Major League Baseball 's national radio package from CBS in 1998, Steiner became its lead announcer, working Sunday night games,
495-486: The achievement was legitimate or that the pitch was grooved to enable a legendary sendoff. Steiner left ESPN in 2002 and joined the New York Yankees ' radio booth, replacing Michael Kay as John Sterling 's play-by-play partner. Steiner was at the microphone when Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone won Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series with a home run in the eleventh inning to defeat
528-637: The alternate TV announcers. Steiner was unable to work any games for the Dodgers during the 2024 season due to his battle with multiple myeloma blood cancer. Steiner, an Emmy Award recipient, was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame on November 9, 2013, becoming the 17th sportscaster admitted into the Hall. In December 2010 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from his alma mater Bradley University , where he gave
561-613: The commencement address. Steiner received the United Press International award for "Best Sportscaster for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut " in 1981, 1983, and 1985. His football play-by-play work earned him the New York State Broadcasters Association Award for "Best Radio Play-by-Play" in 1983, 1984, and 1987. During his fourteen years at ESPN, Steiner won a CableACE award for a documentary on Muhammad Ali and
594-485: The current state of baseball. Steiner's last episode of Baseball Beat aired on January 16, 2009. Following Vin Scully's retirement from the Dodgers after the 2016 season, the team split its radio-TV duties between Steiner and Joe Davis , with Steiner remaining on the radio side but switching to television on those occasions Davis has a Fox Sports assignment. Starting with the 2019 season he worked radio only with Tim Neverett and later Stephen Nelson replacing him as
627-517: The entire game on radio during games that were nationally televised. For locally televised road games that Scully did not call, Steiner handled the TV commentary with Orel Hershiser and Nomar Garciaparra on color commentary, while Monday called play-by-play on radio with Kevin Kennedy doing color. During the post-season, Scully called the first and last three innings solo, with Steiner and Monday calling
660-569: The event was that the song had apparently been written by "Francis Scott Off-Key", a pun on the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner", Francis Scott Key . Steiner was featured in a series of well-known television promos from ESPN's This is SportsCenter comical promo campaign. In 1999, amid fears of the Y2K situation , Steiner starred in a promo where the SportsCenter cast spoke about a "contingency plan" at ESPN's studios after Y2K, and Steiner
693-488: The face. On August 9, 2004, Steiner returned to ESPN to co-host an "old school" version of SportsCenter with Bob Ley . Steiner also hosted a program on the NFL Network called Football America , which ran from 2003 to 2005. He has also been shown in frequent cuts of interviews for the network's NFL Top 10 series, discussing such subjects as former Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau . Cuts of his play-by-play of
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#1732798165177726-436: The first three innings would remain. Starting in 2014, Steiner was paired with Orel Hershiser on the television broadcast for all games Scully did not call, and broadcast on the radio with Monday the other games. Steiner also used to host Baseball Beat on XM Satellite Radio 's MLB Home Plate channel, where he talked exclusively to writers, authors, columnists, broadcasters, or celebrities on their thoughts and analysis of
759-477: The fourth inning and cover the remainder of the game, as the first three innings were a radio/television simulcast voiced by Vin Scully . Steiner handled television play-by-play on all other games (with analyst Steve Lyons ), primarily road contests east of the Rocky Mountains . For the 2009 season, the Dodgers had Steiner and Monday as their radio team for all 162 games, though the Scully simulcast of
792-466: The last interview with John Lennon , recorded at The Dakota just hours before his death on December 8, 1980, by Dave Sholin, a San Francisco DJ, and scriptwriter/newscaster Laurie Kaye, with radio producer Ron Hummel, who put together many music specials for RKO. The RKO Radio Networks were headquartered at 1440 Broadway in New York City, also the home of co-owned WOR (AM) . The offices were
825-538: The middle innings. Scully retired on October 2, 2016; his commentary was simulcast on radio for the entire game. Scully died on August 2, 2022. California Indiana New Mexico Texas U.S. Virgin Islands A separate network airs games in Spanish. Jaime Jarrín has been the Spanish play-by-play voice of the Dodgers since 1959 until his retirement in 2022. His oldest son, Jorge Jarrín ,
858-426: The network's lead boxing analyst. Steiner was involved in many comical situations during his tenure on SportsCenter , including one broadcast in 1993 when Carl Lewis sang " The Star-Spangled Banner " prior to a New Jersey Nets game. Amused by hearing Lewis' terrible rendition of the song, Steiner began chortling during the SportsCenter show that night, unable to stop until the show ended. His famous comment on
891-561: The new "pool boy" in the show's apartment complex. Steiner starred in a third promo with boxer Evander Holyfield . In the opening shot, Evander questions Stuart Scott about Steiner's assessment that Holyfield is only the "50th best heavyweight of all-time"; Stuart then deadpans that he meant "the 50th best heavyweight — in Georgia". In the final scene, an angry Holyfield is seen roaming the halls of ESPN screaming, "Charley! Come on out and get your whoopin'! Charley, come on out! Steiner!" Steiner
924-582: The sports director for the RKO Radio Network . He was also the play-by-play voice for the USFL 's New Jersey Generals entire existence from 1983 to 1985, and for the NFL 's New York Jets in 1986 and 1987 . It was during his time with RKO Radio that he was involved in a fracas at the conclusion of a press conference after John McEnroe had won his semifinals match at Wimbledon in 1981. Throughout
957-605: The tournament, McEnroe had consistently requested not to discuss the status of his relationship with then-girlfriend Stacy Margolin . When Daily Star gossip columnist James Whittaker persisted in broaching the subject, McEnroe cursed at him and the British media and prematurely ended the press conference by storming out of the room. Steiner confronted Whittaker to say, "C'mon, man, you are just messing it up for everybody else. We want to get our quotes." Right at that point, Nigel Clarke, another British reporter who then worked for
990-678: The two collectively became RKO Radio Networks . In 1985, the RKO Radio Networks were sold to the United Stations Radio Network after advertising billing scandals involving RKO came to light. United Stations was merged with Transtar Radio Networks to form Unistar Radio Networks in 1988. Finally, in 1994, Unistar was absorbed by Westwood One , which switched its affiliates to the Mutual Broadcasting System . The newscasts, aimed at
1023-442: Was added in 1981. After subsequent mergers, its parent company rendered it defunct in 1994. When it began operations on October 1, 1979, it was the first new full-service American radio network to be launched in 40 years. It was also the first commercial radio network to distribute programming entirely by satellite. RKO was popular from the start, signing up hundreds of network affiliate radio stations from coast to coast. Its base
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1056-444: Was featured wearing a tie as a head band (along with Braveheart -style face paint) and screaming the phrase "Follow me to freedom!" A second promo featured Steiner being traded from ESPN to Melrose Place in exchange for actor Andrew Shue . While Shue delivers a straight-up report on a meeting with Paul Tagliabue , Steiner is then seen wearing shorts and introduces himself to Laura Leighton (in character as Sydney Andrews ) as
1089-515: Was the RKO General-owned radio stations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other large markets. RKO initially purchased downlink satellite dishes for its affiliates, creating the nation's first satellite-delivered commercial radio network. Satellite distribution allowed high-fidelity (15 kHz) stereo programming to its affiliates. RKO 2 debuted on September 1, 1981, at which point the original network became known as RKO 1 and
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