Tim Roye

Tim Roye
Roye calls the November 28, 2009 Golden State Warriors/Los Angeles Lakers game at Oracle Arena.
Born	Timothy James Roye
Alma mater	Utica College
Occupation	Radio play-by-play announcer for Golden State Warriors
Years active	1981–present
Home town	Chula Vista, California, U.S.

Timothy James Roye is an American radio play-by-play announcer for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. Prior to joining the Warriors, he had worked in radio in Utica, Birmingham, Phoenix, and Sacramento, with occupations from play-by-play announcing to hosting radio shows and being a sports radio director. He has been calling Warrior games for over 20 seasons and is currently heard on 95.7 The Game, an FM station in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Roye is a native of Chula Vista, California. He attended Utica College in New York, and after graduation in 1981, spent eight years as the sports director at Utica's WIBX–WNYZ radio. In 1986 he moved to Birmingham, Alabama and was the sports director at WVOK radio as well as the voice for the University of Alabama at Birmingham men's basketball team. In 1987, he moved to Phoenix where he had a talk show on KTAR radio, worked as a correspondent on the radio for the Arizona Cardinals, covered Arizona State basketball and baseball, and the Phoenix Firebirds minor league baseball team.

In 1989 he joined the Sacramento Kings’ broadcast team, handling radio broadcasts on KHTK-AM and KFBK-AM. He was a sports director for KFBK for five of the six seasons, and later hosted a daily sports talk show on KHTK as well a two-hour weekly Kings program. Besides covering the Kings, Roye covered other local sports teams on radio and television including the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League and the Sacramento State sports teams.