Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy rejoins Dial Global as a play-by-play announcer for coverage of Sunday afternoon NFL games. McCarthy previously worked for the network in 2008 and 2009 calling college football and basketball. McCarthy will also call NCAA Basketball and NCAA Tournament games on Dial Global Sports.

Tom is also the television play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, his second tour with the club. In his first stint, he spent five seasons (2001-05) as the host of the pre- and post-game radio shows, while also doing radio play-by-play. He spent the 2006-07 seasons as a radio broadcaster with the New York Mets on WFAN before returning to the Phillies in November of 2007.

A graduate of The College of New Jersey (BA degree in communications), Tom spent six seasons with the Trenton Thunder, the former double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. He was hired as director of public and media relations in 1993 and promoted to assistant general manager in 1996, while also working as one of the team’s broadcasters, doing play-by-play on radio and television for CN8. Also while with the Thunder, Tom hosted call-in shows on ESPN Radio, both locally and nationally.

He currently does basketball and football play-by-play for CBS Sports Network. He worked as the radio voice of the Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball team from 2004 through the 2009 season. Previously, he was the play-by-play voice for Rutgers University football (2001-03), as well as Princeton University football (1995-2000) and men’s basketball (1995-2003).

In 2000, Tom earned a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for his work on CN8 and is a two-time winner (2002 & 2004) of the Achievement in Radio Award for Best Local Sports Coverage. In January of 2007, he received the Radio/TV Excellence Award from the New Jersey Sportswriters Association. Last summer he was inducted into the Trenton Baseball Hall of Fame and had the radio booth at Waterfront Park in Trenton named after him.