Career
He is the play-by-play announcer for Philadelphia Phillies television broadcasts and also calls National Football League games for Westwood One and called select NFL games for Columbia Broadcasting System beginning in 2014 after filling for Sam Rosen in week 6 in 2013. McCarthy has also been the play-by-play voice of Saint Joseph"s University men"s and women"s basketball teams. McCarthy spent five seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies (2001–2005) as a radio play-by-play voice and as their pre-game and post-game radio host.
McCarthy also has served as the play-by-play announcer for the Double-A Trenton Thunder for six seasons.
He has also been a play-by-play voice for Rutgers University football and for national football and basketball broadcasts on the Columbia Broadcasting System Sports Network (formerly known as CSTV), the Atlantic 10 television network, Westwood One, and the Sports United States of America Radio Network. Following the death of Harry Kalas, McCarthy took over television play-by-play on a full-time basis.
McCarthy is one of three broadcasters to have covered both the Mets and Phillies on a regular basis (the others being Tim McCarver and Todd Kalas). McCarthy spent nearly a decade broadcasting Princeton University football and men"s basketball.
In 2009, McCarthy did play-by-play of the 2009 Caribbean Series for the MLB Network from their studios in Secaucus, New Jersey with Boston Red Sox Spanish language radio announcer Uri Berenguer on the color commentary.
McCarthy has called a game for Fox NFL Sunday as well as MLB games on Fox, most of them involving the Phillies. He is a broadcaster for the NFL on Dial Global replacing Howard David. He performed the same role for Sports United States of America. McCarthy is one of the current broadcasters who cover both NFL and MLB.
