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Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet High School. University of Louisiana at Monroe.
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Tim Brando
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Formerly with Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Columbia Broadcasting System Sports and SiriusXM, Brando has primarily covered National Collegiate Athletic Association football and basketball. Along with radio duties, Brando has also served as a studio host for games, a play-by-play announcer, and halftime host. In 1976 Brando did a stint as a disk jockey at radio station KROK FM in his native Shreveport, Louisiana.
From 1981 to 1986, Brando was the assistant sports director at WAFB-television in Baton Rouge.
He did telecasts of Louisiana State University men"s and women"s basketball on Tigervision. From 1986 to 1994, he served as a studio host for SportsCenter, for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s college football halftime show, and for the network"s coverage of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Basketball Championship.
In 1994, he provided play-by-play for TNT"s coverage of the National Basketball Association Playoffs. Brando also called Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Braves games for SportSouth and also auditioned for Wheel of Fortune during this period.
In 1996, Brando joined Columbia Broadcasting System Sports and began calling National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Championship games.
Three years later, he added hosting duties on College Football Today, which is the broadcast network home of Securities and Exchange Commission football. He also provided play-by-play for the NFL on Columbia Broadcasting System from 1998 to 2002. In addition to his Columbia Broadcasting System duties, Brando calls games for Raycom"s coverage of the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball telecasts.
Brando announced in January 2014 that he is leaving his position with Columbia Broadcasting System because of differences with the network over his future as an announcer.
In June 2014, reports indicated that Brando had reached an agreement to call college basketball games for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network’s Securities and Exchange Commission Network. Brando stated that the deal fell through because the network felt calling college football games wasn"t “part of short term vision for my future".
On June 25, 2014, Fox Sports announced that it had hired Brando to serve as a play-by-play voice for college football and college basketball games on Fox and Fox Sports 1 starting in fall 2014. He was also named as a backup NFL announcer for Fox in October of that year.
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Tim is in his eighth season of hosting Raycom"s Emmy Award-winning show, "Football Saturdays In The S." Brando called the four games in Tampa, Florida, during the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Tournament where for the first time ever, all four lower seeded teams won in the same venue on the same day.
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