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KEVIN HARLAN
Play-by-Play Announcer
THE NFL ON CBS

Kevin Harlan joined the CBS Television Network's NFL broadcast team as a play-by-play announcer in 1998, after four years of broadcasting the NFL on Fox Sports. He joined Fox in 1994. He called CBS Sports' HDTV coverage of the 2001 AFC Championship and Super Bowl XXXV. He also has called CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship since 1999, and called the NCAA Final Four and Championship game for CBS Radio Network and WestwoodOne for the five consecutive years (2003-07), as well as the regionals (2009).

A veteran football and basketball broadcaster, this NFL season marks his 25th consecutive season broadcasting the NFL. Beginning in 2009, Harlan will call play-by-play for Monday Night Football games on WestwoodOne radio, including all the playoffs and a Conference Championship game. This upcoming NBA season marks his 24th broadcasting the NBA. Harlan also has called play-by-play for Turner Sports' coverage of the NBA Playoffs since 1996. He has called regular-season action for TNT and TBS since the 1997-98 season and has served as play-by-play announcer for TBS's coverage of the 1998 Goodwill Games and several college football bowl games. For five seasons, Harlan broadcast NFL pre-season games for the Chicago Bears on WBBM-TV. He began broadcasting the Green Bay Packers' pre-season games in 2003 and will continue again this season. This season Harlan also will call pre-season games for the Kansas City Chiefs on KCTV-5.

He was the voice of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves for nine seasons on KFAN-AM Radio and KARE-TV. He has called NFL action for NBC Sports and college football and basketball for ESPN, as well as college football, college basketball and championship boxing for the Mutual Broadcasting System. In addition, Harlan has been the voice of the NBA's “2K” video games series since 2006, the last two years with CBS Sports colleague Clark Kellogg as analyst.

Harlan landed his first job, as the radio and television voice of the NBA's Kansas City Kings, at the age of 22. He called basketball broadcasts for the University of Kansas Basketball Network (1983-84) and also spent nine seasons (1985-93) as the voice of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. In addition, he provided radio play-by-play for the University of Missouri Football and Basketball Network (1986-89).

Harlan was born June 21, 1960, in Milwaukee and raised in Green Bay, Wis. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1982 with a degree in broadcast journalism. Harlan's father, Bob, was the longtime President & CEO of the Green Bay Packers. He and his wife, Ann, live in Mission Hills, Kan., with their four children.