Mike Emrick
| Mike "Doc" Emrick | |
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Mike Emrick, NBC Sports
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| Born |
August 1, 1946 La Fontaine, Indiana |
| Alma mater |
Manchester University Miami University Bowling Green State University |
| Sports commentary career | |
| Genre(s) | Play-by-play |
| Sports | Ice hockey, American football, Baseball |
Michael "Doc" Emrick (born August 1, 1946) is an American network television play-by-play sportscaster and commentator noted mostly for his work in ice hockey. Emrick is currently the lead announcer for NHL national telecasts on both NBC and NBC Sports. Among the many awards he has received is the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004, making him the first of only five to have received the award for media work, and the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. He has also won four national Emmy Awards (the only hockey broadcaster to be so honored with even one), and on December 12, 2011 became the first member of the media to be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
Emrick earned a B.Sc. in speech from Manchester University in 1968, a M.A. in radio/television from Miami University in 1969. He then received a Ph.D. in Communications (radio/television/film) from Bowling Green State University in 1976, where he got his nickname "Doc".
Emrick taught speech and broadcasting at Geneva College in the Pittsburgh suburb of Beaver Falls from 1969–71 and got his first experience of the NHL covering the Pittsburgh Penguins as an unpaid correspondent for The Beaver County Times newspaper.
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