Johnny Holliday is an American radio sportscaster and a former top 40 radio disc jockey. He has been the "voice" of the Maryland Terrapins football and basketball teams since 1979. He has previously worked as a radio disc jockey in Cleveland, New York City, and San Francisco.[1] He was born John Holliday Bobbitt on October 15, 1937.
During his time at top 40 giant KYA in San Francisco in the late 1960s, Holliday also broadcast local college athletics on radio and television.
Holliday was the announcer of the NBC musical variety shows Hullabaloo and The Roger Miller Show in the 1960s. He was the announcer on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts. Holliday was featured on the CBS series Good Morning, World. He has also starred in more than thirty stage performances and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for best actor in a Washington, D.C. musical for his role in Me and My Girl. In 1965 he was named America's number-one disc jockey by the Bill Gavin Radio "Gavin Report". In 2010, The Maryland Daily Record named Holliday one of its "60 Influential Marylanders".[2] The Washington Post columnist Leonard Shapiro named Holliday as his all-time best Washington sports radio broadcaster since 1970. Johnny is currently co-host of the syndicated "Catholic Radio Weekly" with Carol Lehan.
He has been affiliated with the Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco Giants, San Francisco Warriors, Washington Senators, Washington Nationals, Stanford University, George Washington University and the University of California. During the baseball season, he is currently the co-host of Nats Xtra with Ray Knight on MASN. Johnny Holliday, with Stephen Moore, published his autobiography Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock in 2002,[3] and in 2006, Hoop Tales about the University of Maryland men's basketball team.
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| Born | October 15, 1937 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Johnny Holliday - from Rock to Jock by Johnny Holliday with Stephen Moore,Sports Publishing,LLC,2002