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American retired sportscaster (built-in 1938)

Bob Miller
Bob Miller-Kings.jpg

Bob Miller pictured in 2011
Born

Robert James Miller


(1938-10-12) October 12, 1938 (age 83)

Chicago, Illinois, U.South.
Sports commentary career
Team(due south) Los Angeles Kings (1973–2017)
Genre(s) play-past-play (television)
Sports Ice hockey

Robert James Miller (built-in Oct 12, 1938) is an American retired sportscaster, best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings team of the National Hockey League on Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket.[one] Miller held that post with the team from 1973 until his retirement in 2017. He was partnered with Jim Play a joke on from 1990 to 2017.[ane]

Early on life and career [edit]

Miller received his degree in advice studies from the University of Iowa.[1] While there, he began his broadcasting career, covering the school'southward football game and basketball games for campus station KRUI-FM.[1] [ii]

Subsequently his graduation in 1960,[1] Miller began working in television sports journalism in Wisconsin.[one] He later would add announcing duties for the football and hockey teams at the Academy of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] [3]

Los Angeles Kings [edit]

Jiggs McDonald was the Kings' original play-by-play journalist, serving from their inception in 1967 to 1972, when he left to join the newly-established then-Atlanta Flames (now the Calgary Flames).[1] It was in 1972 that Miller submitted a record to Kings founder and owner Jack Kent Cooke, who was likewise the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball game team. While Cooke said to him "You're going to exist my choice",[four] Cooke instead decided to hire long-time San Francisco Bay Area announcer Roy Storey to fill the void left by McDonald.[1] [5]

When Storey left the squad after one flavor, the Kings turned their attention back to Miller, who was so hired in 1973, and served equally their play-by-play announcer until his retirement in 2017.[vi] Miller's broadcast partners take included Dan Avey, Rich Marotta, Pete Weber, the current radio voice of the Nashville Predators, current Kings radio voice Nick Nickson and former Kings correct wing Jim Fox.[seven] He called games on both telly and radio until 1990, when the Kings stopped simulcasting and Miller went exclusively to television receiver.

Due to the NHL's exclusive national broadcast contract with NBC that prevented local television announcers to call playoff games beyond the first round,[8] Miller and Play a joke on were non allowed to call the Kings' Stanley Cup Finals games on television.[viii] Only due to their overwhelming popularity amongst fans, Kings management had Miller and Fox record their call of the potential clinching games for later distribution.[8]

As a result, when the Kings won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in 2012, Miller told the story of the franchise upward to that point when he said:

This is for yous, Kings fans, wherever you may exist. All the frustration and disappointment of the past is gone. The 45-year drought is over! The Los Angeles Kings are indeed the kings of the National Hockey League. They are the 2012 Stanley Cup champions! The inaugural is on–iii, 2, 1, it'south over!

Miller later recalled that he'd written out his final call in advance, and saved it so he could keep from stumbling over the words out of excitement.[9] With the Kings having locked up the game and the Cup with an outburst of three goals on a 5-minute power play in the first period, many fans sitting below the press box exchanged high fives with Miller and Fox during the final minutes.[x]

Ii years afterwards, Miller called Alec Martinez' overtime goal, which gave the Kings their second Stanley Cup.

Hither on the left side, Martinez over to Clifford. Right side, shot from there. The save, the rebound, SCORE! Kings win the Cup! The Kings, Martinez getting the rebound. The Kings have won the Stanley Cup! The Kings, in the longest game in their history, win it, 3-2!

[eleven]

As the celebration got underway, Miller added a postscript which began, "Royalty reigns over again in the National Hockey League!" He later recalled that he had been saving it for the Cup-clinching game, as he had in 2012.[12]

Miller's start volume, Tales From the Los Angeles Kings, was published in October 2006.[1] [xiii]

Miller'southward 2d book, Tales From The Los Angeles Kings Locker Room: A Collection Of The Greatest Kings Stories Ever Told, was published in Apr 2013.[14]

On March 2, 2017, due to health reasons, Miller announced his retirement as the team's television play-past-play announcer, a position he held for 44 years, and at the time of the announcement, having called 3,351 Kings games.[fifteen] His retirement became effective later on the final two regular season games of the Kings' 2016-17 flavour, a home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on April 8, 2017, and a road game confronting the Anaheim Ducks on Apr 9, 2017.[16] On September 12th, 2017, the Kings appear that Bob Miller would remain with the Kings organization as an administrator and proceed to contribute to the squad on a part-time basis which includes being the MC for the Kings Legends Nights.[17]

Other appearances [edit]

He has performed vocalism over and on-camera work for television shows and movies in scenes which included a hockey journalist.[1] Among his credits are an episode of Thank you and the films Rollerball, Miracle on Water ice, The Mighty Ducks, and D2: The Mighty Ducks.[1] Nationally, he has worked for ESPN, ABC[18] and FOX. He as well called some games for FX during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.[ citation needed ]

Honors [edit]

Miller was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame equally the 2000 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award,[5] [19] and was inducted into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame,[one] [xx] into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame,[1] and into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame.[21] The press box at Staples Center, the Kings' home arena, is named in his honor.[i]

Miller received the ii,319th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in television, on October 2, 2006.[1] At the ceremony he noted, "My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year."[6] Those fears would never come to be as on June 11, 2012, the Kings finally won the Stanley Loving cup.[22] The team would win some other one ii years later in 2014.

In 2014, Miller was honored by the Large Ten Club every bit their Person of the Yr. In 2015, Miller received the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 65th annual Golden Mike Awards.[23]

On January 13, 2018, Miller became the third person from the Los Angeles Kings to exist honored with a statue outside of Staples Center, joining Luc Robitaille and Wayne Gretzky.[24] Miller also became the commencement non-role player to be honored with a imprint hanging from the Staples Center's rafters.[25]

Personal [edit]

Miller is married. He and his married woman Judy have two children.[three]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f one thousand h i j k fifty m north o p Los Angeles Kings 2011-12 Media Guide. Los Angeles Kings. p. 27.
  2. ^ Gase, Thomas (2007-07-19). "King of the booth". The Acorn. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  3. ^ a b Stewart, Larry (1998-01-31). "From Cooke to the 'Mainstay' of the Kings (folio i)". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  4. ^ "Bob Miller's retirement from the Kings means the end of a imperial era in Los Angeles broadcasting - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. 9 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b Elliott, Helene (2000-11-14). "Voice of the Kings Gets Majestic Treatment at Terminal; Hockey: Bob Miller receives media honor in Hall of Fame after years of being overshadowed in Fifty.A." Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2012-09-29 .
  6. ^ a b Stewart, Larry (2006-10-03). "Miller Is Star of This Evidence". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  7. ^ Elliott, Helene (2000-xi-14). "Voice of the Kings Gets Royal Treatment at Final". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  8. ^ a b c Elliott, Helene (2012-06-05). "Bob Miller, Jim Pull a fast one on to tape Stanley Loving cup phone call". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2012-06-17 .
  9. ^ "The Play-by-Play Calls: 2012 Stanley Cup Moments, Episode 20". Los Angeles Kings. April 29, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  10. ^ "The Last Minutes: 2012 Stanley Cup Moments, Episode 12". Los Angeles Kings. April viii, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.
  11. ^ "Kings Assure Stanley Cup - Bob Miller'due south Telephone call". Los Angeles Kings. June 17, 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved March xxx, 2020.
  12. ^ "The Voices: 2014 Stanley Cup Moments, Episode 11". Los Angeles Kings. Jan 16, 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  13. ^ Matsuda, Gann (September nine, 2009). "Bob Miller: The Los Angeles Kings' Greatest Ambassador". FrozenRoyalty.internet/Gann Matsuda. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  14. ^ Matsuda, Gann (May 8, 2013). "Hall of Fame Announcer Bob Miller Publishes New Book Virtually LA Kings 2012 Stanley Cup Run". FrozenRoyalty.net/Gann Matsuda. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  15. ^ Matsuda, Gann (March three, 2017). "Bob Miller's Retirement Press Conference Was Really About All of Usa Instead". Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  16. ^ Rosen, Jon (March 2, 2017). "Bob Miller To Retire; Will Broadcast Final Two Regular Season Games". Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  17. ^ "Bob Miller to Serve as 'Team Ambassador' for LA Kings".
  18. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Motorcar: "Pavel Bure scores hat flim-flam against Gretzky's Kings (1994)". YouTube.
  19. ^ "Foster Hewitt Memorial Award Winners". Hockey Hall Of Fame. Retrieved 2012-09-29 .
  20. ^ Stewart, Larry (1998-01-31). "From Cooke to the 'Mainstay' of the Kings (page 2)". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  21. ^ Stewart, Larry (2002-02-05). "Scully Receives Two Awards". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-25 .
  22. ^ Matsuda, Gann (September 6, 2012). "Stanley Cup Win Allays LA Kings' Hall of Fame Announcer Bob Miller's Greatest Fright". FrozenRoyalty.cyberspace/Gann Matsuda. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  23. ^ "Lifetime Accomplishment Award: Past Honorees". Radio and Boob tube News Association of Southern California. Archived from the original on Apr 26, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  24. ^ Zupke, Curtis (11 October 2017). "Kings will honor sometime broadcaster Bob Miller with a statue outside Staples Center". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2019-02-02 .
  25. ^ "LA Kings Honor Bob Miller With Statue Unveiling, Banner Raising". 2018-01-xiii. Retrieved 2019-02-02 .

See also [edit]

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20190202154101/http://www.callofthegame.com/news/index.php?itemid=1918

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Miller_(sportscaster)

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