Hall of Fame Interview on WPNR 90.7 FM
Compilation of Tim Roye's Utica College Men's Basketball Radio Calls
Tim Roye is in his 18th season of handling the play-by-play duties for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors radio broadcasts on KNBR (680 AM & 1050 AM), the club’s flagship station. Roye also continues to host a weekly one-hour program on KNBR, “Warriors Weekly Roundtable,” throughout the basketball season as well as the Warriors’ pregame and postgame shows.
In recent years, Roye has also done television baseball play-byplay work for the Oakland A’s and Sacramento Rivercats (the Oakland A’s Triple-A affiliate), television football play-by-play for Cal Football, and has served as a back-up radio broadcaster for Stanford Football for the past decade. This past summer, he also served as an auto racing analyst for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.
Prior to his arrival with Golden State in 1995, Roye spent six seasons with the Sacramento Kings’ broadcast team as the pregame, halftime and postgame host for the team’s radio broadcasts on KHTK-AM and KFBK-AM. He also handled the radio play-by-play duties for 45 games during the 1994-95 season. Roye hosted a daily three-hour sports talk show on KHTK as well as hosting a weekly two-hour Kings radio program.
Prior to his work at KHTK, Roye served as sports director at KFBK in Sacramento for five years (1989-94) and handled radio play-by-play and television color analyst duties for the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League.
Roye spent two years in the Phoenix market from 1987-89, serving as a talk show host for KTAR radio and a correspondent for the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. He also served as the color analyst for the Arizona State University Basketball Network and called play-by-play for the Phoenix Firebirds and Sun Devil baseball teams.
Roye spent eight years (1978-86) as the sports director at Utica’s WIBX/WNYZ radio. He later moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where he was the sports director at WVOK radio from 1986-87 and was the voice of UAB men’s basketball. During his time in the Mohawk Valley he was a sports talk show host, play-byplay man for the Mohawk Valley Stars, Comets and Utica Mohawks, and the Utica Olympics of the CBA. He also broadcast the Utica Blue Sox, Utica College and Hamilton College basketball and Colgate University hockey. Roye also spent time broadcasting the Utica Boilermaker Road Race.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from UC in public relations and journalism in 1981.
“I remember the intimacy of Utica College and how it allowed me to start my career and go to school at the same time,” said Roye in a Tuesday Conversation with Fran Perritano of the Utica Observer Dispatch. “I had great teachers at Utica College.”
The Chula Vista, California native resides between Fairfield and Green Valley (20 minutes from Napa) with his wife, Cinde, and their two children, Zachary James and Gabrielle Elizabeth.
