BLOW-BY-BLOW ANNOUNCER
BLOW-BY-BLOW ANNOUNCER
Brian Kenny serves as a blow-by-blow announcer for FOX PBC FIGHT NIGHTS and FOX SPORTS PBC PAY-PER-VIEWS. He’s also served as a host for FOX PBC FIGHT NIGHT shows.
Kenny is a host appearing across MLB Network’s studio programming, including the analytics-focused panel program MLB Now and as a host of MLB Network’s special event coverage and the Emmy Award-winning flagship studio show, MLB Tonight. He also appears on the offseason countdown series Top 10 Right Now.
On MLB Now, Kenny hosts a one-hour live daily panel discussion that covers breaking news and the latest trends in the game with perspectives from baseball journalists, sabermetricians, broadcasters and current and former players and managers.
Kenny is the author of Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
Kenny joined MLB Network from ESPN, where he was anchor of the 6:00 PM ET edition of SportsCenter, host of the Brian Kenny Show on ESPN Radio and Friday Night Fights on ESPN2. He previously served as an ESPN anchor for "Baseball Tonight," receiving a Sports Emmy Award in 2003. Kenny called play-by-play for ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball and the World Baseball Classic, and hosted ESPN’s coverage of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.
Kenny was named "Media Personality of the Year" by SI.com in 2004, and in 2005 he was the recipient of the Sam Taub Award, given by the Boxing Writers Association of America to the Boxing Broadcaster of the Year. Kenny appeared as himself in the 2006 film "Rocky Balboa," in the 2007 film "Resurrecting the Champ" and in the IFC series "Brockmire" in 2017.
Prior to joining ESPN, Kenny was Sports Director at WTZA-TV in Kingston, New York, for 11 years (1986-1997). While at WTZA, he won 11 New York State Broadcasters Association Awards and five Associated Press Awards for Journalistic Excellence. From 1985-86, he was a news reporter, then sports anchor at WLIG-TV in Riverhead, New York.
Kenny attended St. John’s University and the New York Institute of Technology. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York Tech in 1985. He and his wife Nicole have five children.
