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Play-by-Play Announcer Versatile five-sport broadcaster Kenny Albert marks his 31st season with FOX Sports in 2024, the longest-tenured FOX NFL play-by-play announcer. He has been calling NFL games for FOX Sports since its 1994 inception and currently is the only broadcaster handling play-by-play for all four major U.S. sports (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL). For FOX’s 2024 NFL coverage, Albert teams with analyst Jonathan Vilma for the fifth consecutive season. Albert marked his 494th network NFL broadcast in Week 18 of the 2023 NFL season and has called games involving every NFL team at least three times during his career, totaling more than 60 matches with some. Entering the 2024 NFL season, Albert’s 494 NFL games called rank him seventh-highest all-time among play-by-play broadcasters (trailing only Al Michaels, Dick Stockton, Don Criqui, Pat Summerall, Kevin Harlan and Charlie Jones) and 12th-highest among NFL broadcasters across any role. On the NHL side, Albert has called the fourth-most network TV games of any play-by-play announcer at 473 and sits eighth among play-by-play announcers with 411 MLB games called on network television. Across the four primary U.S. sports, Albert holds the fourth spot among total games called at 1,378 and counting. He was named the 2023 New York Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA), and in 2022, he was inducted into the New Jersey Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Albert has called two of the last four Stanley Cup Final series on national television (2021 on NBC, 2023 on TNT). In early 2021, NBC Sports named Albert the lead play-by-play announcer for its NHL coverage, with Albert replacing Mike “Doc” Emrick and calling the 2021 Stanley Cup Final. Additionally, Albert was named the lead hockey play-by-play broadcaster by Turner Sports, beginning with the 2021-22 season. In 2018, FOX Sports named Albert the blow-by-blow announcer for its coverage of Premier Boxing Champions, charging him with calling some of the most high-profile championship fights in the world on FOX and FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View shows. The three-time play-by-play category Sports Emmy Award nominee (2015, 2019 and 2022) previously partnered with analyst Rondé Barber from 2017-2019 and Daryl “Moose” Johnston from 2007-2016, calling five NFC Divisional postseason games, as well as the 2008 Pro Bowl with Johnston and sideline analyst Tony Siragusa. Albert has called Major League Baseball on various FOX networks since 1997 (on FOX Sports since 2001). He contributed as a field reporter for the 2003 and 2004 American League Championship Series (ALCS) on FOX and hosted the ALCS trophy presentations in 2003, 2004 and 2009. The list of sports Albert has called for FOX is long and distinguished, highlighted by: five seasons of NHL coverage (1995-1999); BCS college football, including the Allstate Sugar Bowl (2007 & 2009), FedEx Orange Bowl (2008) and AT&T Cotton Bowl (2011) broadcasts; and two years as host of the NTRA Champions on FOX series (1999-2000). Albert called the 2009 BCS Championship Game and 2010 MLB All-Star Game in 3-D for FOX/DirectTV. He handled play-by-play for FS1’s Big East men’s basketball coverage in 2014 and 2015 and Big3 basketball on FS1 during the summers of 2017 and 2018. Albert was behind the mic for FS1’s presentation of the 2019 American League Division Series (ALDS) (Houston vs. Tampa Bay), 2018 National League Division Series (NLDS) (Brewers vs. Rockies), the 2016 NLDS (LA Dodgers vs. Washington), 2015 ALDS (Toronto vs. Texas) and 2001 NLDS (Braves vs. Astros on FX). Additionally, Albert has called NFL Europe games on FOX. His FOX broadcast partners have included Rondé Barber, John Lynch, Johnston, Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw (2007 Sugar Bowl), Troy Aikman, Tim Green, Ron Pitts, Brian Baldinger, Anthony Munoz, Tim McCarver, Eric Karros, Lou Piniella, Joe Girardi, Greg Olsen, Tom Verducci, Harold Reynolds and A.J. Pierzynski, among others.