Kenny Albert (Olympics)

Kenny Albert returns to NBCUniversal’s Olympic coverage for his U.S. record seventh Winter Games as a hockey play-by-play voice. Albert most recently served as a water polo play-by-play announcer at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Paris marks Albert’s 10^th Olympics with NBCU; he has called men’s and women’s ice hockey for every Olympic Winter Games since 2002.

Albert, one of the most versatile broadcasters in sports, has served as lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on TNT since the 2021-22 season. Albert also handles football and baseball play-by-play duties for FOX and is the only national play-by-play broadcaster who calls football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and boxing.

Albert has served as the radio play-by-play voice of the New York Rangers since 1995. He has served as play-by-play commentator for the NFL on FOX since the network’s inaugural season in 1994 and has been in the booth for five NFC Divisional Playoff games and three BCS bowl games. In October 2024, he became first play-by-play broadcaster to call 500 regular season or postseason games for the same network. Albert has also called MLB games on Fox since 2001, and occasionally handles play-by-play for the Knicks on MSG Network.

Fast Facts

• 10^th overall Olympics with NBCU
• Resides in New Jersey with his wife, Barbara, and daughters Amanda and Sydney.
• Albert graduated from New York University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. As an undergraduate he called play-by-play for NYU basketball on WNYU radio.

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