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.
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[edit] American Football League/National Football League
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.
[edit] Other broadcasting duties
During his time at NBC, he also broadcasted the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1986 FIFA 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.
[edit] Other appearances
In the mid 1970s, he also hosted Almost Anything Goes, The American Frontier, and Pro-Fan.
Charlie Jones (sportscaster), along with Frank Shorter, provided the voices of the TV announcers for a fictionalized staging of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field trials in the 1982 film, Personal Best.
[edit] Honors
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]
[edit] Education
Jones earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California and a law degree at the University of Arkansas.
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