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- Category: Radio
- Star rank: 2112
- Address:
6805 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101667, -118.339657
Bill Stern
Biography
Bill Stern
Bill Stern (July 1, 1907 – November 19, 1971) was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation’s first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame (1988). Born in Rochester, New York, Stern began doing radio play-by-play commentary in 1925, when he was hired by a local station, WHAM, to cover football games. Shortly after that, he enrolled at Pennsylvania Military College, graduating in 1930. Stern was hired by NBC in 1937 to host The Colgate Sports Newsreel as well as Friday night boxing on radio. Stern was also one of the first men to do commentary on televised boxing bouts. Stern broadcast the first televised sporting event, the second game of a baseball double header between Princeton and Columbia at Columbia’s Baker Field on May 17, 1939. During his most successful years, Stern engaged in a fierce rivalry with Ted Husing of the CBS Radio Network
Fact file
- Born: July 1, 1907
- Died: November 19, 1971 (Aged 64)
- Occupation: Radio Announcer
Read more about Bill Stern at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Highland and Orange
- Go west and cross Orange
- Go east and cross Highland
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near Orange
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near Highland
Nearby you will also find Rod Stewart, Henry Mancini, Sandra Bullock, Mario Lanza, Keanu Reeves, Susan Lucci, Frank Parker, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, Anthony Perkins, Britney Spears, and many others.