Career
He delivered the first newscast for New York"s World International News Service radio when it switched from a Top 40 rock music format to all-news in 1965 and also had long tenures as the television "voice" of the National Hockey League New York Rangers and radio voice of the NFL New York Giants. Later in life, he was also active in local politics in Putnam County, New New York Gordon"s career began in Syracuse, New New York In the mid 50"s he moved to his native New York City and over the next four decades worked at several major radio stations in various sports and news capacities, including WMGM and its successor, WHN, World International News Service, WABC, WNEW-Department of Administration and Management and WOR. In addition to his broadcasting roles, he served as news director of WABC and WNEW. Early in his New York radio career, he hosted pre and post-game programs on WMGM broadcasts of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games.
He also called college sports and boxing matches.
As a news reporter, he covered riots and blackouts in New York and anchored World International News Service" coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. Gordon began calling New York sporting events when he was hired by Madison Square Garden in 1955 to be the radio voice of the Rangers and Knicks.
He worked in those capacities on-and-off in both radio and television over the next three decades, occasionally alternating with other New York sportscasters like Marty Glickman, Les Keiter, Bob Wolff, Win Elliot, Tim Ryan, Don Criqui and Marv Albert. In between Knicks and Rangers assignments, Gordon appeared on Columbia Broadcasting System Sports network television coverage of the National Hockey League in the late 1960s and also was the original television voice of the New York Islanders, calling games in the 1972-1973 season.
Returning to the Rangers in the mid 70"s, he called their cable and broadcast television games until 1984, when he was replaced by Sam Rosen.
During some of those hockey seasons, he also called games on the syndicated National Hockey League Network. In 1977, Gordon was hired to replace Marv Albert as the radio voice of the New York Giants football team Foreign 18 seasons (ending in 1994) Gordon called games on both WNEW and WOR alongside Dick Lynch and (later) Karl Nelson.
He was fired by WOR after the 1994 season and replaced by Bob Papa, effectively ending his broadcasting career.
A near-iconic expression that Gordon used almost nightly while calling Rangers games: "Loose puck in front! (pause, followed by) Number Ranger there."
Gordon was a resident of Putnam County, New York and served as a volunteer firefighter and in several elective positions. He was its chairman from 1990 to 1993.
Gordon died from cancer, one day after turning 76.
