Cal’s Play-by-Play Announcer Starkey Receives Recognition
08.11.09
The Bay Area Radio Museum & Hall of Fame has announced the members of its Class of 2009. Among the twelve honorees is longtime Cal play-by-play announcer Joe Starkey.
Starkey has been the play-by-play voice of the University of California Golden Bears since 1975, and broadcast the 49ers on radio from 1989 through 2008. He began his career as radio voice of the NHL’s California Golden Seals in 1972.
The Class of 2009 will be celebrated at a gala luncheon on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at the Doubletree Executive Meeting Center on the Berkeley Marina.