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Ross Porter (American broadcaster)
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Ross Porter is an American sportscaster.
For 28 seasons, Porter broadcast for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. Prior to joining the Dodgers in 1977, he spent 10 years as a sportscaster for KNBC-TV. Porter also called NFL football and NCAA basketball for NBC Sports from 1970-1976, and just over a decade later he replaced Chick Hearn as the voice of UNLV athletics. The Dodgers replaced him with former New York Yankees broadcaster Charley Steiner 2004 season, after denying him a contract extension.
Porter was known for providing fans with in-depth statistical analyses on ballplayers when games were in session. He was also the host of a pregame and postgame show known as DodgerTalk before and after each ballgame, where he would answer people's phone calls about questions pertaining to the ballgame.
On August 23, 1989, Porter set a record for broadcasting 22 straight innings without any replacements, in a ballgame against the Montreal Expos. He is the only broadcaster to have been the voice of a World Series champion and a college basketball champion, albeit not in the same season.
Throughout his tenure as a Dodgers broadcaster he worked alongside Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett, Don Drysdale, and Rick Monday. Porter broadcast the 1976 and 1977 World Series (both of which involved the Dodgers) for CBS Radio.
Ross is heard on occasion as a fill-in host on radio station KMPC in Los Angeles.