![]() ![]() Kay and Sterling also provided play-by-play commentary for Nintendo 64's All-Star Baseball video games from 1999 to 2001. Since the late 1990s, Kay and Sterling have co- emceed such events as the Yankees' annual Old-Timers' Day ceremony as well as players' number retirements, anniversary celebrations for the team's World Series victories, and the City Hall celebrations after Yankees' World Series victories. Kay at the 2009 Yankees World Series parade According to Miller, Kay was brought in because ESPN felt that they should include the local aspects of broadcasting for the Yankees for this special game, as the YES Network was not allowed to cover the game. On September 21, 2008, he joined Jon Miller and Joe Morgan to call the seventh inning of ESPN's broadcast of the final home game at Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles. In 2008, Major League Baseball invited Kay to call the Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium during that year's All Star festivities. Kay calls about 125 games a year for the YES Network and Prime Video (the Prime games were formerly broadcast in the Yankees' territory by a network led by WPIX-TV). Most have been former professional players, including Ken Singleton, David Cone, Al Leiter, Paul O'Neill, Jim Kaat, John Flaherty, Joe Girardi, Lou Piniella, and Bobby Murcer. Kay has worked with a series of partners on YES, often with three or four different partners in the same season. Kay has been the Yankees' lead television play-by-play announcer ever since. When WCBS acquired the radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to the debuting YES Network on television and Sterling remained on the radio. When ESPN Radio began leasing (and later purchasing) WEVD radio in 2001, Kay was chosen to host a daily radio show on the newly rechristened "1050 ESPN Radio". Kay continued during that time as a spot reporter on ABC Radio, doing off-season shows with Sterling and as a fill-in sports reporter on WABC-TV. From 1992 to 1993 Kay hosted his own show on WABC. ĭuring the baseball season, the duo hosted Yankee Talk, a weekend pre-game radio show. Kay and Sterling also paired together in 1998 for Sports Talk with John Sterling and Michael Kay, a nightly radio show which aired on WABC. ![]() Kay spent a decade partnered with Sterling as the radio announcers of the team on WABC from 1992 to 2001. Kay also worked as a reporter for Fox Sports Net in the late 1990s.Īnnouncer for the New York Yankees (1992–present) Kay (far left) with Paul O'Neill, Ken Singleton, and Ryan Ruocco providing play-by-play commentary for the Yankees on YES Kay left the Daily News to host a sports talk show on WABC in 1992, briefly returning to write "Kay's Korner" for the Daily News in 1993, before taking a job doing radio broadcasts of New York Yankees games with John Sterling. He had previously worked for the network as a contributor on the news-format sports show MSG SportsDesk. In 1992–99, he was MSG's locker room reporter for the New York Knicks. Kay also served as the Madison Square Garden Network Yankee reporter starting in 1989. In 1989, Kay left the Post for the Daily News, still primarily covering the Yankees. He received the writing assignment covering the Yankees in 1987. Kay started his professional career with the New York Post in 1982 as a general assignment writer, with sports-specific assignments to college basketball, the National Basketball Association and the New Jersey Nets happening over time. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Fordham. Kay began his reporting career at the Bronx High School of Science and continued reporting at Fordham University for their radio station WFUV. Wanting to be the Yankees announcer when he grew up, he wrote as many of his school assignments as he could about the Yankees, so he could learn all about them. Always a Yankee fan, Kay wore number 1 in Little League for his favorite player, Bobby Murcer. His father was Jewish and his mother was of Italian descent. ![]() ![]() Kay was born and raised in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is an American sports broadcaster who is the television play-by-play broadcaster of the New York Yankees and host of CenterStage on the YES Network, and the host of The Michael Kay Show heard on WEPN-FM in New York City and simulcast on ESPN Xtra on XM Satellite Radio. ![]()
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