Charlie Jones (sportscaster)

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Charlie Jones (born November 9, 1930) in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is an Emmy Award winning former sportscaster for NBC and ABC.

Jones started at ABC in 1960 broadcasting American Football League games.

In 1965, he moved to NBC, continuing to broadcast the AFL and later the National Football League. He would work NFL games until 1997, when NBC lost their NFL broadcasting rights to CBS. During his time at NBC, he also broadcasted the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1986 World Cup, 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics as well as golf and Wimbledon.

He was also a play-by-play announcer for the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies.

In the mid 1970s, he also hosted Almost Anything Goes, The American Frontier, and Pro-Fan.

In 1997, Jones was awarded the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He also received an Emmy in 1973 for his part as writer, producer and host of the documentary, Is Winning the Name of the Game?^[1]

Jones earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California and a law degree at the University of Arkansas.