Marty Reid

Martin Reid Klingeman (born February 3, 1953), known professionally by Marty Reid, is an American television sportscaster who worked for ESPN from 1982 to 2013, covering motorsports for the network. Reid served as the network's lead IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 announcer from 2006 until that year, and did lap-by-lap for ESPN's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series telecasts in 2010.

Reid first dabbled in radio when his brother, a disc jockey, needed another voice for a radio ad. In the following years, Reid worked on his sportscasting by calling Hershey Bears games into a tape recorder.

As Reid developed, he gained the opportunity to call Marietta College athletics while a student there. Upon graduation, he joined WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio in 1975. Among his duties were announcing Ohio State University hockey and Columbus Clippers telecasts. After turning down an opportunity to leave Columbus and call Charleston Charlies games, Reid—a former drag racing mechanic—had the opportunity to substitute on an NHRA telecast for ESPN.

In 1988, he started Marty Reid Enterprises, a video production company that worked closely with ESPN. He founded the short course off-road racing series Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) in 1997 and sold it to Jim Baldwin in 2005.

Concurrently, Reid commentated off-road racing, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and IMSA for ESPN, while also making appearances as a pit reporter on Formula One, CART, and lower division NASCAR broadcasts. So busy was Reid that he had to turn down an opportunity to call an Ottawa Senators game in 1993, despite his interest stemming from an ice hockey background. Reid did, however, find the time to serve as a spotter for Fermín Vélez and Team Scandia in the 1997 Indianapolis 500.

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