Win Elliot
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Win Elliot, was an American
television
and radio
sportscaster
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
of NHL New York Rangers
and NBA New York Knicks
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
matches on the NBC
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 TV, 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 erupted not long before.
Win Elliot, (May 7, 1915-September 17, 1998) was an American
television
and radio
sportscaster
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
of NHL New York Rangers
and NBA New York Knicks
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
matches on the NBC
radio network during the 1950s.
From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash
,Quick As a Flash a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.
On TV, 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 erupted not long before.
Win Elliot, (May 7, 1915-September 17, 1998) was an American
television
and radio
sportscaster
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
of NHL New York Rangers
and NBA New York Knicks
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
matches on the NBC
radio network during the 1950s.
From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash
,Quick As a Flash a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.
On TV, 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 erupted not long before.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSNTEZAJ-c
Elliot was also a guest host
on other game shows, including Beat the Clock
and Win with a Winner.
But Elliot became far better known as a sportscaster. In the mid 1960's, 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
TV and later on WOR
TV. He also called the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals
(the first televised by an American network) for NBC. http://www.detroitsportsbroadcasters.com/blog/2009/04/21/nhl-hockey-on-national-television-scott-morganroth-blog/
Elliot also broadcast horse racing events in the 1960's and conducted one of the early call-in sports radio
talk shows on WCBS (AM)
in New York.
He then started anchoring Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
, which he continued to do into the early 1980's. He also took part in several of the network's World Series
broadcasts in the 1970s.http://www.baseballbroadcasters.com/heritage_wsannouncers.htm
He was the brother of movie and TV actor Biff Elliot
.
Elliot died at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut on September 17, 1998 at the age of 83.
United States
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television
Television
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and radio
Radio
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sportscaster
Sportscaster
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
Sports commentator
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
of NHL New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
and NBA New York Knicks
New York Knicks
The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
matches on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
radio network during the 1950s.
From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash
Quick As a Flash
Quick as a Flash was a 30-minute radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.Created by director Richard Lewis and emcee Ken Roberts, the program debuted over the Mutual Network on Sunday, July 16, 1944. Sponsored by the Helbros Watch Company, the...
, a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.
On TV, he replaced Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer more familiar for a one-off, fictitious host he played on a legendary situation comedy than he was during his time as a real radio and television performer.Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show...
as host of the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the pen-and-paper game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–1986 run initially on...
, 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
Quiz show scandals
The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition....
that erupted not long before.
Win Elliot, (May 7, 1915-September 17, 1998) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
sportscaster
Sportscaster
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
Sports commentator
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
of NHL New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
and NBA New York Knicks
New York Knicks
The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
matches on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
radio network during the 1950s.
From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash
Quick As a Flash
Quick as a Flash was a 30-minute radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.Created by director Richard Lewis and emcee Ken Roberts, the program debuted over the Mutual Network on Sunday, July 16, 1944. Sponsored by the Helbros Watch Company, the...
,Quick As a Flash a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.
On TV, he replaced Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer more familiar for a one-off, fictitious host he played on a legendary situation comedy than he was during his time as a real radio and television performer.Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show...
as host of the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the pen-and-paper game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–1986 run initially on...
, 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
Quiz show scandals
The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition....
that erupted not long before.
Win Elliot, (May 7, 1915-September 17, 1998) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
sportscaster
Sportscaster
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
and game show host who was best-known for his long tenures as a play-by-play broadcaster
Sports commentator
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
of NHL New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
and NBA New York Knicks
New York Knicks
The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
games and host of Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
.
Born Irwin Elliot Shalek in Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...
and a graduate of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Elliot did Rangers games through the 1950's and 60's, alternating with other announcers of the era, depending on what stations held rights and who sponsored the games.
Elliot broadcast boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
matches on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
radio network during the 1950s.
From 1947 to 1949, he was the emcee of Quick As a Flash
Quick As a Flash
Quick as a Flash was a 30-minute radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.Created by director Richard Lewis and emcee Ken Roberts, the program debuted over the Mutual Network on Sunday, July 16, 1944. Sponsored by the Helbros Watch Company, the...
,Quick As a Flash a radio quiz program which featured drama segments with guest actors from radio detective shows.
On TV, he replaced Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer more familiar for a one-off, fictitious host he played on a legendary situation comedy than he was during his time as a real radio and television performer.Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show...
as host of the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the pen-and-paper game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–1986 run initially on...
, 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
Quiz show scandals
The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition....
that erupted not long before.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSNTEZAJ-c
Elliot was also a guest host
Guest host
A guest host is a host, usually of a talk show, that substitutes for the regular host if they are, for example, ill or have other commitments...
on other game shows, including Beat the Clock
Beat the Clock
Beat the Clock is a Goodson-Todman game show which has aired on American television in several versions since 1950.The original show, hosted by Bud Collyer, ran on CBS from 1950–1958 and ABC from 1958–1961. The show was revived in syndication as The New Beat the Clock from 1969–1974, with Jack Narz...
and Win with a Winner.
But Elliot became far better known as a sportscaster. In the mid 1960's, he was the announcer for the "Schaefer
Schaefer Beer
Schaefer Beer is a brand of American beer. Schaefer Beer was first produced in 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company. The name "Schaefer" is derived from the last name of founding brothers Frederick and Maximiliam Schaefer....
Circle of Sports" broadcasts of Rangers and Knicks games, track and field and other events related to Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
. Those broadcasts aired on WPIX
WPIX
WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network...
TV and later on WOR
WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV, virtual channel 9 , is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey and serving the Tri-State metropolitan area. WWOR is owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox network flagship...
TV. He also called the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals
1966 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1966 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the defending champion Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens would win the best-of-seven series four games to two to win the Stanley Cup for the seventh time in eleven years.-Paths to the final:...
(the first televised by an American network) for NBC. http://www.detroitsportsbroadcasters.com/blog/2009/04/21/nhl-hockey-on-national-television-scott-morganroth-blog/
Elliot also broadcast horse racing events in the 1960's and conducted one of the early call-in sports radio
Sports radio
Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...
talk shows on WCBS (AM)
WCBS (AM)
WCBS , often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880" , is a radio station in New York City. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network...
in New York.
He then started anchoring Sports Central USA on the CBS Radio Network
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
, which he continued to do into the early 1980's. He also took part in several of the network's World Series
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball, played between the American League and National League champions since 1903. The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff and awarded the Commissioner's Trophy...
broadcasts in the 1970s.http://www.baseballbroadcasters.com/heritage_wsannouncers.htm
He was the brother of movie and TV actor Biff Elliot
Biff Elliot
Biff Elliot is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as popular detective Mike Hammer in the 1953 version of I, the Jury, and as his guest appearance in the Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark".-Early life:...
.
Elliot died at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut on September 17, 1998 at the age of 83.