Steve Hartman (sportscaster)
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Steve Hartman is currently the co-host of the Loose Cannons sports talk show on KLAC radio in Los Angeles, California (along with ex-Los Angeles Laker Mychal Thompson and Vic Jacobs (known as "The Brick"), and is also the weekend sports anchor on KCBS television.
Hartman is nicknamed the "King of Sports Trivia" due to his photographic memory of sports knowledge; both past and present.
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For more than two decades, Hartman has put his stamp on the sports world as a writer, team executive, and broadcaster. He has become a fixture at top sporting events, having covered 15 Super Bowls, 13 Final Fours and 5 Major League All-Star Games. In addition, Hartman also served two seasons as a UCLA football radio color commentator, for which he earned a 1996 nomination for "best radio analyst" by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association.
In 2002, the SCSBA nominated Hartman as "best radio talk show host" making him the first person to be nominated as both a talk show host and color analyst. He was also a 2004 inductee into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
In addition to his radio portfolio, he has been a weekend television sports anchor for KCBS in Los Angeles since 1998. Five times (1999-2001; 2003-04), Hartman and his colleagues have been honored as the best local sports television team by the SCSBA. In addition, he served seven years as a television color analyst for ESPN's coverage of the Toyota "Pro/Celebrity" race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Hartman first gained notice as the Daily Bruin sports editor at UCLA where he gained West Coast collegiate honors for his coverage of the 1980 Final Four.
Following graduation, Hartman worked three years at KABC radio in Los Angeles as an assistant producer for the station's afternoon sports show. This was followed by a four-year run as media relations/publications director for the Los Angeles Raiders, pro sports most notorious organization.
In February 1989, Hartman began his sports radio career at KFOX in Los Angeles. A year later, he helped launch XTRA, the first all-sports station in southern California. The rest is broadcasting history.
The Hartman family includes wife Denise, sons Drake and Garrett, daughter Paris and dog Charlie.
