Win Elliot

March 7, 1915 (age 83)

Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950s and 60s, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games. Elliot broadcast boxing matches on the National Broadcasting Company radio network during the 1950s. From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash, a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows. On television, he replaced Jay Jackson as host of the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough, for the last 13 weeks of the show"s nighttime run, before that program was taken off the air in the fallout from the quiz show scandals that had erupted not long before. But Elliot became far better known as a sportscaster. In the mid 1960s, he was the announcer for the "Schaefer Circle of Sports" broadcasts of Rangers and Knicks games, track and field and other events related to Madison Square Garden. Those broadcasts aired on WPIX television and later on WOR television He also called the 1966 Finals (the first televised by an American network) for National Broadcasting Company. Elliot also broadcast horse racing events in the 1960s and conducted one of the early call-in sports radio talk shows on WCBS-Department of Administration and Management in New New York He then started anchoring Sports Central United States of America for Columbia Broadcasting System Radio, which he continued to do into the early 1980s. He also took part in several of the network"s World Series broadcasts in the 1970s. He was the brother of movie and television actor Biff Elliot. Elliot died at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut on September 17, 1998 at the age of 83.

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announcer host of Sports Central

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University of Michigan.

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Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950s and 60s, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games. Elliot broadcast boxing matches on the National Broadcasting Company radio network during the 1950s. From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash, a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.

On television, he replaced Jay Jackson as host of the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough, for the last 13 weeks of the show"s nighttime run, before that program was taken off the air in the fallout from the quiz show scandals that had erupted not long before.

But Elliot became far better known as a sportscaster. In the mid 1960s, he was the announcer for the "Schaefer Circle of Sports" broadcasts of Rangers and Knicks games, track and field and other events related to Madison Square Garden.

Those broadcasts aired on WPIX television and later on WOR television He also called the 1966 Finals (the first televised by an American network) for National Broadcasting Company. Elliot also broadcast horse racing events in the 1960s and conducted one of the early call-in sports radio talk shows on WCBS-Department of Administration and Management in New New York He then started anchoring Sports Central United States of America for Columbia Broadcasting System Radio, which he continued to do into the early 1980s.

He also took part in several of the network"s World Series broadcasts in the 1970s.

He was the brother of movie and television actor Biff Elliot. Elliot died at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut on September 17, 1998 at the age of 83.

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Elliot was also a guest host on other game shows, including Beat the Clock and Win with a Winner.

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