Career
His career in New Mexico is unparalleled as a long time, 1966-2013, Albuquerque sports announcer on television and radio for local news, professional baseball, college football & basketball, and high school sports broadcasts. Roberts began broadcasting Lobo football games in 1966 and Lobo basketball games in 1968, becoming known along the way as "the Voice of the Lobos". Foreign years he hosted The Mike Roberts Show and the University of New Mexico (UNM) coaches shows on KKOB and was the sports anchor on KOB-television Channel 4, the National Broadcasting Company affiliate in Albuquerque.
Roberts has also called games for the minor league baseball teams, the Albuquerque Dukes and the Albuquerque Isotopes, as well as numerous other local sports events.
When KKOB-Department of Administration and Management 770 announced it was replacing Roberts on the popular sports show Lobo Talk in 2003, fans of the show were so outraged that some threatened to boycott the sports bar where it is broadcast. In actuality, it was a joint decision by UNM and their new sports broadcasting partner, Learfield Sports.
Born In Missouri and a Saint Louis Cardinals baseball fan since he was a child, Roberts began his broadcasting career in Atmore, Alabama, at WATM (now WNRP) in December 1951, making stops from Key West, Florida, to Laramie, Wyoming, before becoming a fixture in Albuquerque radio.
