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Bob Miller (sports announcer)
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- This article is about a sports announcer. For other uses of the name see Bob Miller (disambiguation).
Robert James Miller (born October 12, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) is best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings team of the National Hockey League. Miller has held that post with the team since 1973 and has been partnered with Jim Fox for the last seventeen seasons.
Miller received his degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa. While there, he began his broadcasting career, covering the school's football and baseball games.
After his graduation in 1960, Miller began working in television sports journalism in Wisconsin. He later would add announcing duties for the football, basketball and hockey teams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Miller was hired by the Kings in 1973 and has been their play-by-play announcer since. He has performed voice over and on-camera work for television shows and movies in scenes which included a hockey announcer. Among his credits are an episode of Cheers and the films Miracle on Ice and The Mighty Ducks.
Miller was inducted into the broadcaster's wing of the Hockey Hall of Fame as the 2001 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame, into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame and into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The press box at Staples Center, the Kings' home arena, is named in his honor.
He received the 2,319th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 2, 2006. At the ceremony he noted, "My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year." [1] Although Miller was once given an honorary lifetime contract, his actual current contract runs through the 2008-09 season, with an option for 2009-10.
In addition to Fox, Miller's broadcast partners have included Dan Avey, Rich Marotta, current Kings radio voice Nick Nickson and Pete Weber, the voice of the Nashville Predators.
Miller's first book, Tales From the Los Angeles Kings, was published in October 2006.
Miller is married, and he and his wife Judy have two children and two grandchildren.