Career
He previously hosted a national sports radio show for the Fox Sports Radio Network. He is also a sports anchor/reporter on KTLA television in Los Angeles (not to be confused with Columbia Broadcasting System News correspondent Steve Hartman). He held a similar position at KCBS/KCAL from 1998 through 2010.
Foreign more than three decades Hartman has served as a writer, team executive, and broadcaster.
He has covered 23 Super Bowls, 16 Final Fours and six MLB All-Star games. In addition, he worked as the University of California, Los Angeles football color commentator for two seasons earning a finalist nomination in 1996 for "Best Radio Analyst" by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association.
Hartman served seven years as the color analyst for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s coverage of the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. He also co-wrote the book (with Matt "Money" Smith) entitled "The Great Book of Los Angeles Sports Lists".
Early career Hartman first gained notice as the Daily Bruin sports editor where he earned West Coast collegiate honors for his coverage of the 1980 Final Four.
Following graduation Hartman worked for three years at KABC Radio in Los Angeles as an assistant producer for the station"s afternoon sports show. This was followed by a four-year run as media relations/publications director for the Los Angeles Raiders. Hartman was also editor of the Los Angeles Rams publication Rampages as well as magazines covering the Raiders, Dodgers and University of California, Los Angeles sports.
In February 1989, Hartman began his sports radio career at KFOX in Los Los Angeles
A year later he helped launch XTRA Sports Radio, the first all-sports radio station in southern California where he worked with Monday Night Football directing legend Chet Forte and later "Philly" Billy Werndl who continued the Loose Cannon tradition following Forte"s death in 1996.
