List of New York Islanders broadcasters

List of New York Islanders broadcasters presents an excerpt as an overview of television and radio broadcasters sorted by year.

Television

Year	Channel	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Rinkside reporter	Studio host	Studio analysts
1972–73	WOR-TV	Jim Gordon and Ed Cain			Spencer Ross
1973–74	WOR-TV	Hal Kelly and Dave Martin or Hawley Chester
1974–75	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	George Michael
1974–75	HBO (playoffs only)	Spencer Ross	Stan Fischler
1975–76	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	George Michael
1975–76	HBO	Spencer Ross	Stan Fischler
1976–77	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	George Michael
1976–77	Cablevision Sports 3	Spencer Ross	Stan Fischler
1977–78	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	George Michael
1977–78	Cablevision Sports 3	Tim Ryan	Stan Fischler
1978–79	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	Eddie Giacomin
1978–79	SportsChannel New York	Steve Albert	Stan Fischler
1979–80	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1979–80	SportsChannel New York	Steve Albert	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1980–81	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1980–81	WOR-TV	Tim Ryan	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1981–82	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1981–82	WOR-TV	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1982–83	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1982–83	WOR-TV	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1983–84	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1983–84	WOR-TV	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1984–85	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1984–85	WOR-TV	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1985–86	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1986–87	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1987–88	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1988–89	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1989–90	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1990–91	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1991–92	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1992–93	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1993–94	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1994–95	SportsChannel New York	Jiggs McDonald	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1995–96	SportsChannel New York	Howie Rose	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1996–97	SportsChannel New York	Howie Rose	Ed Westfall	Stan Fischler
1997–98	SportsChannel New York	Howie Rose	Ed Westfall		Stan Fischler	Mike Crispino
1998–99	Fox Sports New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (during Micheletti's NHL on Fox assignments)		Stan Fischler	Mike Crispino
1999–2000	Fox Sports New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments)		Stan Fischler	Mike Crispino
2000–01	Fox Sports Net New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments) Mike Crispino (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments)		Stan Fischler
2001–02	Fox Sports Net New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments) Mike Crispino (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments)		Deb Placey
2002–03	Fox Sports Net New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments) Mike Crispino (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments)		Deb Placey
2003–04	Fox Sports Net New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Ed Westfall (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments) Mike Crispino (select games during Micheletti's NHL on ABC assignments)	Deb Placey
2005–06	FSN New York	Howie Rose	Joe Micheletti (primary) Billy Jaffe (during Micheletti's NHL on NBC assignments)	Deb Placey
2006–07	FSN New York	Howie Rose	Billy Jaffe	Deb Placey		Jean Potvin (select games only)
2007–08	FSN New York	Howie Rose	Billy Jaffe	Deb Placey	Jean Potvin (select games only)	Butch Goring
2008–09	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Billy Jaffe	CJ Papa	Butch Goring
2009–10	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Billy Jaffe	Rob Carlin or Deb Placey	Butch Goring
2010–11	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring	Rob Carlin or Deb Placey	Butch Goring	Stan Fischler
2011–12	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring		Peter Ruttgaizer	Stan Fischler
2013	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring		Peter Ruttgaizer	Stan Fischler
2013–14	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring		Peter Ruttgaizer	Stan Fischler
2014–15	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring		Shannon Hogan	Stan Fischler, Mike Bossy, and Rick DiPietro
2015–16	MSG Plus	Howie Rose	Butch Goring		Shannon Hogan	Stan Fischler, Mike Bossy, and Rick DiPietro
2016–17	MSG Plus	Brendan Burke	Butch Goring		Shannon Hogan
2017–18	MSG Plus	Brendan Burke	Butch Goring		Shannon Hogan
2018–19	MSG Plus	Brendan Burke	Butch Goring	A.J. Mleczko (select games) Jennifer Botterill (select games)	Shannon Hogan	A.J. Mleczko and Jennifer Botterill
2019–20	MSG Plus	Brendan Burke	Butch Goring	A.J. Mleczko (select games) Jennifer Botterill (select games)	Shannon Hogan	A.J. Mleczko and Jennifer Botterill
2021	MSG Plus	Brendan Burke	Butch Goring	A.J. Mleczko (select games) Jennifer Botterill (select games)	Shannon Hogan	A.J. Mleczko
2021–22	MSG Plus (primary)^[1] MSG Network (during Knicks, Rangers, and Devils off-days)	Brendan Burke (most games) Jiggs McDonald (select games) Chris King (emergency) Alan Fuehring (select games)	Butch Goring (most games) A. J. Mleczko (select games) Anson Carter (select games)	A. J. Mleczko (select games) Anson Carter (select games)	Shannon Hogan	A. J. Mleczko (select games) Anson Carter (select games)
2022–23	MSG Sportsnet (primary)^[1] MSG Network (during Knicks, Rangers, and Devils off-days)	Brendan Burke (most games) Alan Fuehring (select games)	Butch Goring (most games) A. J. Mleczko (select games) Thomas Hickey (select games)	A. J. Mleczko (select games) Thomas Hickey (select games)	Shannon Hogan	A. J. Mleczko (select games) Thomas Hickey (select games)
2023–24	MSG Sportsnet (primary)^[1] MSG Network (during Knicks, Rangers, and Devils off-days)	Brendan Burke (most games) Alan Fuehring (select games)	Butch Goring (most games) Thomas Hickey (select games) A. J. Mleczko (select games)	Thomas Hickey (select games) A. J. Mleczko (select games)	Shannon Hogan	Thomas Hickey and A. J. Mleczko

The Islanders had very limited over-the-air television in the 1970s and early '80s as they shared WOR with the Rangers, Knicks and Nets. In their first two seasons, home games were televised by Teleprompter Cable. Cable coverage returned on HBO for the 1975 playoffs and 1975-76 season. Home telecasts went to LI Cable (later renamed SportsChannel) and have remained there since.

Radio

Year	Stations	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Studio host	Intermission Analyst
1972–73	WNBC & WHN	Al Albert	Jack DeCelles
1973–74	WHN	Al Albert
1974–75	WMCA	Dom Valentino	Jim Garvey
1975–76	WMCA	John Sterling	Bob Lawrence
1976–77	WMCA	John Sterling	Bob Lawrence
	WGBB
1977–78	WMCA	John Sterling	Bob Lawrence
	WGBB
	WGLI
1978–79	WMCA	Simulcast of TV broadcast or Bob Lawrence	No color commentators	Bob Lawrence
	WGBB
1979–80	WMCA	Simulcast of TV broadcast or Bob Lawrence	Simulcast of TV broadcast or Jean Potvin	Bob Lawrence
	WGBB
	WALK
1980–81	WMCA	Simulcast of TV broadcast or Barry Landers	Simulcast of TV broadcast or Jean Potvin	Barry Landers
	WGBB
1981–82	WMCA	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin
	WGBB
1982–83	WMCA	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin
	WGBB
1983–84	WOR	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin
1984–85	WOR	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin	Joel Blumberg
1985–86	WOR	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin	Joel Blumberg
1986–87	WOR	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin	Joel Blumberg
1987–88	WOR	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1988–89	WEVD	Barry Landers	Jean Potvin	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1989–90	WEVD	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1990–91	WEVD	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1991–92	WPAT	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1992–93	WPAT	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1993–94	WRCN	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom	Joel Blumberg
	WGBB
1994–95	WRCN	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom
1995–96	WRCN	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom
1996–97	WLIR	Barry Landers	Bob Nystrom
1997–98	WLIR	Jim Cerny	Chris Botta and Wayne Merrick
1998–99	WJWR	Jim Cerny	Chris Botta
1999–2000	WJWR	Jim Cerny	Chris King
2000–01	WJWR	Jim Cerny	Chris King
2001–02	WEVD	John Wiedeman	Chris King
2002–03	WEVD	John Wiedeman	Chris King
2003–04	WEPN	John Wiedeman	Chris King
2005–06	WBBR	John Wiedeman	Chris King
2006–07	WBBR	Steve Mears	Chris King
2007–08	WBBR	Steve Mears	Chris King
2008–09	WMJC	Steve Mears	Chris King
2009–10	WMJC	Simulcast of TV Broadcast		Chris King
2010–11	WRHU	Chris King	Selected Hofstra University radio student
2011–12	WRHU	Chris King	Selected Hofstra University radio student
2013	WRHU	Chris King	Selected Hofstra University radio student
2013–14	WRHU	Chris King	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WRCN
2014–15	WRHU	Chris King	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WRCN
2015–16	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WNYE
	WRCN
2016–17	WRHU, WFAN	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WCBS (when not on WFAN)
	WNYM (when not on WFAN)
	WRCN (when not on WFAN)
2017–18	WRHU, WFAN	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WNYM(when not on WFAN)
	WMCA (when not on WFAN)
	WRCN (when not on WFAN)
2018–19	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student
	WRCN
	Radio.com
2019–20	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student	Cory Wright
	WEPN (AM)
	WRCN-FM
2021	WRHU, WEPN (AM)	Chris King Alan Fuehring (Emergency)	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student	Cory Wright
	WNYM, WRCN-FM
2021–22	WRHU, WEPN (AM), WRCN-FM	Chris King Greg Picker (Emergency)	Greg Picker Cory Wright (Emergency)	Selected Hofstra University radio student	Cory Wright
2022–23	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker Cory Wright (Emergency)	Selected Hofstra University radio student	Cory Wright
	WEPN (AM)
	WRCN-FM
2023–24	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker	Selected Hofstra University radio student	Cory Wright
	WEPN (AM)
	WRCN-FM
2024-25	WRHU	Chris King	Greg Picker
	WRCN-FM

The full schedule was not carried on radio until 1978–79. WHN (1972–74) and WMCA (1974–78) carried all home games and most road games, but conflicts with Nets home games prevented some road games from being on radio.

Alternate announcers

Television

Play-by-play

George Michael: 1974–1976
Steve Albert: 1976–1980
Stan Fischler: 1977–1978
Tim Ryan: 1978–1980
Al Albert circa 1983
Spencer Ross: 1987-1989
Barry Landers: 1989-1995
Mike Crispino: Late 1990s
Jiggs McDonald: 1981; 2006–present
Steve Mears: 2008
Kenny Albert: 2010

Radio

Play-by-play

Kenny Albert: 1989–1992
Gary Stanley: circa 1994
Jim Cerny: 1997–2001
Chris King: 2008
Alan Fuehring: 2021
Greg Picker: 2022

References

^ ^a ^b ^c MSG Plus Announces New York Islanders 2010-2011 Telecast Schedule

[:0-1] MSG Plus Announces New York Islanders 2010-2011 Telecast Schedule

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