Fred McLeod (sports analyst)

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Fred McLeod (born 1952) joined FSN Ohio prior to the 2006-07 NBA season as the play-by-play voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers. He teams up with returning color analyst Austin Carr for Cavaliers games telecast on FSN Ohio.

Fred's wife Beth McLeod was the traffic reporter for WDIV and works as an on air host for the Michigan Lottery daily drawings.

[edit] Previous jobs

Prior to joining FSN Ohio, McLeod served 22 consecutive seasons as the Detroit Pistons TV play-by-play voice, including nine seasons with FSN Detroit. His 22 years is a record of a television only announcer with the same NBA team. McLeod began his work on Pistons games in 1984 with PASS Sports. McLeod also did play-by-play duties on FSN Detroit's coverage of Michigan high school football and basketball championships. A Detroit sportscaster since 1982, McLeod was a reporter at WDIV-TV 4 (NBC), hosting its long-running Sunday night show Sports Final Edition.

McLeod's career includes play-by-play experience of the Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Oakland Athletics.

McLeod began his professional career in 1974 at KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri and later at WSTV in Steubenville, Ohio, WJKW-TV in Cleveland and KPIX-TV in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Pointe Park College in Pittsburgh, where he pitched in the NAIA College World Series.