Bill Roth (sportscaster)

Bill Roth
Sports commentary career
Sports	NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball

Bill Roth is an American television and radio sportscaster. He is the former play-by-play voice of UCLA Bruins football and men's basketball, completing the 2015-16 season before being replaced by Josh Lewin. From 1988 until April 2015, he was the play-by-play voice of Virginia Tech Hokies football and men's basketball. In 2016, Bill continued his broadcasting career calling games on national radio including the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on ESPN Radio. He also made his ESPN College Football Prime time television debut in 2016 as well.

Bill was born and raised in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. While in high school, he interned for radio station KDKA and later at the Duquesne University campus station. Bill graduated from Syracuse University in 1987. It was at Syracuse where Roth began his broadcasting career at campus station WAER where he was a radio sportscaster. He won the Robert Costas Scholarship at Syracuse in 1986. After graduating from Syracuse, he began broadcasting various sports for ESPN including field hockey, lacrosse, professional kick boxing, baseball, and other NCAA sports.

At the age of 22, Bill began working for Virginia Tech as the "Voice of the Hokies" in 1988, where he broadcast Hokies football, basketball and baseball games. Bill also served as host of the Hokie Hotline, a weekly radio show featuring Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer and basketball coaches Frankie Allen, Bill Foster, Bobby Hussey, Ricky Stokes, Seth Greenberg and James Johnson. Bill also hosts a weekly television show, Virginia Tech Sports Today, that is shown every Sunday morning on TV stations in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maryland. Roth's tenure is longer than any other sportscaster in Virginia Tech history and he called more games than any other announcer in the school's history. Bill has called several NCAA men's basketball tournaments, and major bowl games: Orange Bowl (1996, 2008, 2009, 2011), Sugar Bowl (1995, 2000, 2004, 2012), Gator Bowl (1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005.) Roth called games of Virginia Tech great Michael Vick including the school's 1999 undefeated regular season during Vick's time at the school. Bill opens every broadcast by saying "From the Blue Waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the Hills of Tennessee, the Virginia Tech Hokies are on the air."

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