Historical New York Rangers broadcasters

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1964-65 Win Elliot
1965-66 Norm Jary (His is the voice you hear on Bobby Hull's then-record setting 51st goal in March of 1966)
1966-67 Jim Gordon
1967-68 and 68-69 Win Elliot
1969-70 Bob Wolff
1970-71 Tim Ryan
1971-72 Tim Ryan, Norm MacLean
1972-73 Sal Marciano, Bill Chadwick
1973-74 to 81-82 Jim Gordon, Bill Chadwick
1982-present Sam Rosen with partners Phil Esposito, John Davidson and Joe Michelletti

Quote from giantsfan on 02/24/09 at 17:51:45:
I recall Ranger games with Win Eliot on WPIX-11 as part of "The Saturday Night Sports Special". In the early 60s, the Rangers played Saturday afternoon games, which were tape delayed for evening re-broadcast on Channel 11. I think road games were usually done live. When the Rangers weren't scheduled on Saturday night, Channel 11 would run events such as track and field, maybe ECAC Basketball. This was from about 1962-65, before the Knicks and Rangers moved to Channel 9.

The Saturday night hockey games were almost always shown at 9pm on delay; they would be live only if the Rangers were at Chicago, where the game was at 830pm, and after expansion, in StLouis or Minnesota where 9pm would be the actual start time; I assume this was done so that they didn't need to fill time during the intermissions. In the 1964-65 season Win Elliott did all the Saturday night games until March 20, the first Saturday of the racing season at Aqueduct, where Elliott hosted a Saturday afternoon series; Jim Gordon did the last two Saturday nights of the season; as you point out when the Rangers weren't scheduled channel 11 would run other events; sometimes, they even showed a different NHL game, which was the case March 27 when Jim Gordon went to Toronto to do the Detroit-Toronto game for WPIX.

This was a year when Gordon was not doing the Rangers, but it is interesting how he managed to pick up hockey work just about every season:

1958-59 Rangers radio intermission host
1959-60 Rangers radio pbp
1960-61 and 1961-62 Montreal Canadiens Sunday night road games for theater tv
1961-62 Rangers playoff radio
1962-63 Rangers radio pbp
1963-64 and 1964-65 backup Rangers home pbp for pay tv channel 18 in Hartford, plus the two WPIX games in late 64-65
1965-66 Intermission host for CBC radio Sunday night hockey broadcasts at MSG
1966-67 Rangers tv pbp; RKO Sunday tv pbp; CBS TV playoff pbp
1967-68 Rangers tv pbp; CBS TV game of the week pbp
1968-69 sub pbp Rangers tv
1969-70 Rangers home cable tv; radio pbp Oakland Seals sat/sun Eastern road games for KGO radio
1970-71 and 71-72 intermission host for CBS TV game of the week
1972-73 Islanders radio and tv
1973-74 thru 1983-84 Rangers tv pbp

GREAT INFO ON RANGERS TV ANNOUNCER HISTORY!!

Do you have the same for radio?

Here is what I have...

26-27 - 38-39 Jack Filman on WMSG
39-40 - 43-44 Bert Lee & Marty Glickman on WHN
44-45 - 54-55 Bert Lee & Ward Wilson on WHN (WMGM)
55-56 - 56-57 Jim Gordon & ?Ward Wilson? on WINS
57-58 - 58-59 Jim Gordon & Win Elliot on WINS
59-60 - Jim Gordon & Monty Hall
60-61 - NO RADIO
61-62 - Playoffs - Jim Gordon or Les Keiter
62-63 - 64-65 Marty Glickman and or Win Elliot
65-66 - Marv Albert & Unknown maybe Glickman
66-67 - 71-72 Albert & Chadwick
72-73 - Albert & Gene Stuart
73-74 - 94-95 Albert & Sal Messina
95-96 - 02-03 Kenny Albert & Messina
03-04 - Kenny Albert & Brian Mullen
05-06 - Now Kenny Albert & Dave Maloney

Also on TV did Bob Wolff work alone in 69-70 on WOR and 70-71 on MSG? If not who was his partner?

From 72-74 was Glickman by himself or with Spencer Ross or was Ross in when Glickman was not there?

first, from 1972-74 HBO used only one announcer on Rangers games so Glickman, who was in charge of HBO sports, hired other announcers to replace him when he was unavailable, generally owing to his radio committments to Giants football; and yes, Bob Wolff worked alone in the booth those years

I think it is a safe bet that you (nor I) ever listened to Jack Filman, but he was the original voice of hockey in NY, doing not just Rangers but also NYAmericans home games, always joined in progress at 10pm, on the following years and stations:

26-27 WMSG 1410
27-28 WMSG 1270
28-29, 29-30 WMSG 1350
stations seemed to change kc frequently then
30-31 no radio
31-32 thru 35-36 WMCA 570
36-37 no radio
37-38 playoffs only WMCA 570
38-39 starting jan 31 WEAF 660 1045pm with Bill Stern; may have been a post game show only with no pbp
39-40,40-41,41-42 WHN 1050 Bert Lee/Dick Fishell
still did both Rangers and Americans home games
42-43: no more Americans; league is down to 6 teams aka the original six
42-43, 43-44 WHN home games only, Bert Lee/Marty Glickman
44-45 thru 47-48 WHN Bert Lee/Ward Wilson
48-49 thru 50-51 WMGM Bert Lee/Ward Wilson; home games plus road playoffs; Wilson sub pbp, Bud Greenspan, Bert Lee Jr sub color
51-52 thru 53-54 WMGM home games plus road games with no Knicks basketball conflicts; Bert Lee/Ward Wilson home; Wilson alone on road; sub Al Nagler one game from Detroit in 51-52
1954-55 WMGM Win Elliott/Ward Wilson split pbp on home games; Wilson alone on road
1955-56 WINS home games all season, road games after jan 1; Bert Lee/Ward Wilson home games and weekend road games; Wilson alone on remaining road games
1956-57 thru 1957-58 no local radio
1958-59 WINS entire 70 game schedule, some on delay after Knicks games; Bud Palmer pbp sunday-friday; Win Elliott pbp saturday; Jim Gordon or Les Keiter intermission host on home games
1959-60 WINS all home games, all road games not conflicting with Knicks home game...Jim Gordon/Monty Hall at home; Gordon alone on the road
1960-61 no radio
1961-62 WINS all games home and away starting march 6; Les Keiter alone road regular season games and sunday home games; Jim Gordon/Les Keiter split pbp on 1 regular season home game and 3 playoff games, one at home, 2 in Toronto
1962-63 WCBS all home games and partial road schedule Jim Gordon (Marty Glickman sub on some games, Marv Albert debut on one road game from Detroit in March, Fred Cusick sub on one game at Boston)
1963-64 WCBS all but 2 games starting Feb 9; Win Elliott (Dom Valentino sub 1 game)
1964-65 WCBS wednesday and sunday games home and away Win Elliott (Bob Wolff sub one game)
1965-66 WHN Sunday games home and away Marv Albert (last 5 min first two periods plus entire third period)
1966-67 thru 1969-70 WHN all non channel 9 televised games except a few on the west coast; Marv Albert alone 66-67 thru 68-69 (Stu Nahan and Win Elliott each sub one game in 67-68); Bill Chadwick color on home games only in 69-70
1970-71 thru 71-72 WNBC 660 all non ota televised games Marv Albert/Bill Chadwick at home, Albert alone on road
1972-73 WNBC all non ota televised games Marv Albert/Gene Stuart
1973-74, 74-75 WNBC all non ota televised games Marv Albert/Sal Messina
1975-76 thru 1986-87 all non ota televised games Marv Albert/Sal Messina; WNEW 75-76 through 83-84; WPAT 930 84-85 thru 85-86; WNBC 86-77
1987-88 all games home and away Marv Albert/Sal Messina WNBC or WEVD 97.9
1988-89 same WNBC or WMCA 570
1989-90 same WPAT or WFAN 660
1990-91 same WFAN 660 or WPAT or WEVD 1050
1991-92 same WFAN or WEVD or WZFM 107.1
1992-93 thru 96-97 same WFAN or WEVD or WXRK 92.3
1997-98 thru 00-01 WFAN or WEVD Kenny Albert/Sal Messina
2001-02 WFAN or WBBR 1130 Kenny Albert/Sal Messina
2002-03, 03-04 WFAN or WBBR Kenny Albert/Brian Mullen
2005-06 to present WEPN 1050 Kenny Albert/Dave Maloney

for many years when he was the radio voice of the Rangers, Marv Albert missed more games than he called; in his 19 year career as analyst Sal Messina worked with 18 different pbp partners, even though nominally his only partners were Marv or Kenny Albert; Sal also did pbp on several games; Marv had multiple committments that forced him to miss games, Kenny has the NFL on Fox and bowl games as well as MLB on Fox; Sal Messina sometimes did tv filling in for Bill Chadwick, and, later John Davidson; so there were some additional radio analysts at times: Pete Stemkowski, Dave Maloney, Ron Greschner, Pierre Larouche, Emile Francis, Chris Nilan, Ulf Nilsson and possibly others filled in for Messina or Maloney; during the years when only the non-televised road games were broadcast, at times the tv crew, Marchiano/Chadwick in 72-73, Gordon/Chadwick and Gordon/Esposito later did the game on radio, especially on lengthy road trips; finally, the alternate radio pbp announcers, who in some seasons from 1985-1997 did more games than Marv Albert:

69-70, 70-71: Bob Wolff
71-72: Tim Ryan, Bob Wolff
72-73: Sal Marchiano, Bob Wolff
73-74: Spencer Ross, Bob Wolff, John Sterling, Jim Gordon
74-75: Spencer Ross, Bob Myer, Jim Gordon
75-76: Spencer Ross, Jim Gordon, Sal Messina
76-77: Spencer Ross, Barry Landers, Jim Gordon
77-78: Sam Rosen, Jim Gordon
78-79 and 79-80: Bob Wolff, Sam Rosen, Jim Gordon, Sal Messina
80-81: Sam Rosen, Jim Gordon
81-82: Sam Rosen, Jim Gordon, Spencer Ross, Sal Messina
82-83: Sam Rosen, Spencer Ross, Al Albert
83-84: Sam Rosen, Spencer Ross, Mike Emrick, Jim Gordon
84-85: Sam Rosen, Spencer Ross, Mike Emrick, Howie Rose
85-86 and 86-87: Mike Emrick, Howie Rose, Sam Rosen
87-88: Sam Rosen, Mike Emrick
88-89: John Kelly, Sam Rosen, Howie Rose
89-90 thru 94-95: Howie Rose
95-96: Kenny Albert, Al Trautwig, Gary Cohen, Chris Moore
96-97: Steve Albert, Kenny Albert, Gary Cohen, Al Trautwig, Joe Beninati
97-98 and 98-99: Spencer Ross
99-00: Spencer Ross, Barry Landers
00-01 01-02, and 03-04: Bob Wischusen, Spencer Ross
02-03: Bob Wischusen, Spencer Ross, Joe Tolleson
05-06: Bob Wischusen, Spencer Ross, Mike Crispino
06-07: Bob Wischusen, Mike Crispino, Joe Tolleson, John Giannone
07-08: Joe Tolleson, Spencer Ross, John Giannone
08-09: Don LaGreca

for the first two games of the 08-09 season in Prague WEPN carried a simulcast of MSG audio with Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti in Prague, and Don LaGreca and Pete Stemkowski in the New York studio for intermissions