PERSON: Kevin Harlan

Sportscaster

Kevin Robert Harlan (born June 21, 1960) is an American television and radio sports announcer, and a three time National Sportscaster of Year as voted by his peers. The son of former Green Bay Packers President and CEO Bob Harlan, he broadcasts NFL, NBA and college basketball games on CBS and the NBA on Prime Video. He had previously worked NBA games for TNT Sports from 1996 to 2025. 2025 will be his 41st consecutive season doing NFL play-by-play, and 2025-26 will be his 39th year doing NBA play-by-play.

Harlan began broadcasting as a teenager for his alma mater Our Lady of Premontre High School’s high school radio station, WGBP-FM, calling play-by-play for the school’s boys’ basketball, football and ice hockey teams. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2019. He was a ball boy with the Green Bay Packers in his teens during the time that his father, Bob Harlan, was a Packers executive in the front office. He had originally pursued attending either the University of Wisconsin–Madison or the University of Notre Dame in pursuit of his communications/mass media degree, but a personal recommendation from broadcaster Gary Bender to his dad Bob led Kevin to instead attend the University of Kansas and its School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Harlan was introduced to the Jayhawks’ primary basketball play-by-play announcer at the time, Tom Hedrick, who noted Harlan’s zeal for sports broadcasting and immediately considered him a protégé in the making. Hedrick gave Harlan a sideline position his freshman year, eventually deeming him as his understudy and fill-in announcer on days when he had other commitments. Harlan graduated in 1982 with a broadcast journalism degree. During his time at Kansas, he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

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