ELI GOLD - 12/15/1953
an American sportscaster. He began his career in 1972 working as a weekend sports reporter with the Mutual Broadcasting System. In 1976, Gold became a member of the NASCAR’s Motor Racing network, which gives over 600 stations the broadcast of the NASCAR races. Eli had many different jobs in the station, including co-anchor, turn announcer and pit reporter. Since 1982, Gold has broadcast the show “NASCAR Live” and it is a weekly show that is heard all over the United States. Gold is best known as the radio voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, along with Tom Roberts, as part of the Crimson Tide Sports Network since 1988. Along with the Alabama Crimson Tide, Gold was called by the CBS Sports to broadcast the play by play-on college basketball regional show, which included the Universities of Georgia and South Carolina. Eli was the first play-by-play announcer for the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Blazers basketball team and he was there for six years. Eli also spent four years as the broadcaster for the Birmingham Barons baseball team. While he was working with the baseball team he was named the Southern League’s Broadcaster of the Year in 1983. He was also voted “Alabama Sportscaster of the Year” four times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriter Association. Gold moved to Birmingham, Alabama to broadcast the Birmingham Bulls hockey team of the World Hockey Association. He created Birmingham's first local sports call-in show, Calling All Sports on WERC which
became a staple of Birmingham sports radio for 20 years. Gold has also performed announcing duties for the Birmingham Barons AA baseball team and the UAB Blazers men's basketball team. He has also been the host of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network since 1982 until the end of 2016. He formerly called play-by-play for Arena Football League's coverage on TNN and NBC and currently calls college football and NFL games for Sports USA Radio Network. During the 1996 NASCAR season, Gold was the anchorman for the Nashville Network, a televised show that broadcast NASCAR racing. He also worked with ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and SETN in all of their coverage of NASCAR racing. According to NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace who also broadcasts NASCAR themed shows on SPEED Channel and St. Louis radio station KMOX-AM, Gold "is one of the most recognizable voices in NASCAR and in all of sports broadcasting." At the beginning of the 2000 season, Gold became TNN’s “voice” of the Arena Football league by being the voice of the play by play for the AFL. He did the play-by-play announcing for the three years that the AFL was on the TNN network. When AFL moved to NBC Sports in 2003, Gold was hired to become the play-by-play announcer for the AFL. Gold also did AFL announcing for FOX Sports Net and Comcast Sports. Beginning in the Fall of 2003, Gold became a member of the SportsUSA Radio’s Network coverage of the NFL. Gold handles the play by play of one NFL game a week. He also broadcasts the all-star games and post-season college football bowl games for SportsUSA Radio. In 2016, Gold resigned from MRN and all NASCAR duties
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