Bob Miller (sports announcer)

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Bob Miller is best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings team of the National Hockey League. Miller has held that post with the team since 1973.

A native of Chicago, Miller received his degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa. While there, he began his broadcasting career, covering the school's football and baseball games.

After his graduation in 1960, Miller began working in television sports journalism in Wisconsin. He later would add announcing duties for the football, basketball and hockey teams at the University of Wisconsin.

Miller was hired by the Los Angeles Kings in 1973 and has been their play-by-play announcer since that time. His being based in Los Angeles has also meant that he has often been called upon by the entertainment industry to do voice or on-camera work for television shows and movies that have featured hockey scenes narrated by an announcer.

Miller has been inducted into the broadcaster's wing of the Hockey Hall of Fame, into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame, into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame and into the Southern Califironia Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He is due in 2006 to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The press box at Staples Center, the Kings' home arena, is named in his honor.

Miller is married, and he and his wife have had two children.

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