Bruce Murray (sportscaster)

Bruce Murray is an American sports radio personality and the co-host of a daily radio show on SiriusXM. Murray can also be seen Tuesday and Thursday hosting Daily News Live on SNY in New York. He has been with SiriusXM and its predecessor, Sirius Satellite Radio, since 2006, when he began as a co-host of The Mike and Murray Show (he began in the summer of 2006); he later "branch(ed) out to The Red Zone on Sirius NFL Radio."[1]

Born in 1963, Murray is a 1981 graduate of Hewlett High School and in 2004, he was inducted into their Hall of Fame[2] He attended Tulane University where he "was the voice of the Green Wave's basketball and football teams from 1983-1985."[3]

Bruce also had three sons with his wife Hilary: Jack, Max, and Lucas.

Murray began his career as "a line producer at the now defunct Mizlou Sports News Network."[4] Murray worked on the launch of WFAN as well as at ESPN Radio and at Washington, D.C.'s sports radio station WTEM where he hosted the Washington pre, post and Coaches show.[5]

Murray joined Sporting News Radio in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2005, Murray hosted Sporting News Radio's morning show Murray in the Morning, a hot talk-oriented morning zoo that departed heavily from the network's usual sports talk format. He also co-hosted The Troy Aikman Show, The Bill Parcells Show and Around the NFL.[6][3]

In 2009, Murray was one of the original on-air personalities when SiriusXM's Mad Dog Radio channel was launched.[7] On March 8, 2012, he joined with best-selling author and columnist John Feinstein for the sports talk show, Beyond the Brink before the departure of Feinstein to CBS. In March 2013, Murray announced his departure from Mad Dog Radio, and moved over to the NFL Channel on SiriusXM, co-hosting The SiriusXM Blitz with former quarterback Rich Gannon [8]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Hewlett High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame
  3. 1 2 All About Bruce Murray...
  4. ↑ Personalities INSIDE RADIO interview
  5. ↑ Mad Dog Radio
  6. ↑ SIRIUS Satellite Radio - Action Sports Radio
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ http://www.siriusxm.com/nfl

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