Westwood One Presents Super Bowl XLIV

Broadcast Team

Westwood One is the exclusive network radio home of Super Bowl XLIV, broadcasting live from South Florida on February 7, 2010. This year's Super Bowl broadcast will be heard on over 600 radio stations across America and on The American Forces Radio Network, which serves over one million men and women in uniform, Department of Defense personnel, American Embassies and Consulates in over 180 countries and territories as well as nearly 200 U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command ships at sea.

Marv Albert, the voice of Monday Night Football on Westwood One, returns for his eighth Super Bowl broadcast as play-by-play announcer. For over 25 years, Albert has served as primary play-by-play voice for the NBA on NBC and TNT, along with play-by-play announcing for NFL football, college basketball, boxing, NHL All-Star games, and has hosted studio and pre-game shows for Major League Baseball. Albert has won six Cable Ace Awards, three New York Emmy awards and was named New York State Sportscaster of the Year an unprecedented 20 times. In 1997, he was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors given to sports journalists.

Boomer Esiason provides color commentary for Westwood One's critically acclaimed Monday Night Football broadcast team and this marks his tenth Super Bowl broadcast for the network. Esiason co-host's The NFL Today for CBS Sports and also served as the Monday Night Football analyst for ABC Sports for two seasons before joining Westwood One. Boomer also spends mornings co-hosting a daily radio show on WFAN in New York, and co-hosts NFL Preview with Scott Graham each week on Westwood One as well. Prior to embarking on a broadcasting career, Esiason was one of the most prolific quarterbacks in NFL history. He spent 14 years in the NFL and quarterbacked the Cincinnati Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII. In 1988, Esiason was named NFL MVP by the Pro Football Writers of America and the Associated Press.

Mark Malone will be working his second Super Bowl for the network, after joining Westwood One last season as a game analyst and sideline reporter. Malone, who will patrol the sidelines, also hosts NFL Insider each week for the network. Malone spent a decade with ESPN where he hosted many NFL shows including Edge NFL Match-up, NFL Tonight, and Monday Night Countdown. Prior to joining Westwood One, he served as Sports Director for WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he garnered four Emmys for his work. Malone, an All-American quarterback at Arizona State and first-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers, played for 10 years in the NFL, quarterbacking the Steelers to the 1984 AFC Championship Game.

James Lofton will work his third Super Bowl for Westwood One as sideline reporter, previously having served in that capacity for Super Bowls XXXV and XXXVI. Lofton then served a seven-year coaching stint with the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders before rejoining the network this year as the lead analyst for Sunday Night Football. He was the No. 1 draft pick of the Green Bay Packers in 1978, beginning a long career as an NFL wide receiver. In 16 seasons playing for Green Bay, the Los Angeles Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles, Lofton caught 764 passes for 14,004 yards, which was the most in NFL history at the time of his retirement. In 13 playoff games, Lofton caught 41 passes for 759 yards and eight touchdowns, including a seven-reception game in Super Bowl XXVI. He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

Jim Gray joined Westwood One in 2001 as host of the network's Monday Night Football pre-game and halftime shows and this marks his ninth Super Bowl fulfilling the same role for the network. Gray covers boxing for Showtime, is a contributor to NBC's Today Show, and also recently served as a courtside reporter for the NBA on ABC and most recently ESPN. Gray's numerous credits include: seven Olympic Games, 23 Masters, thirteen Super Bowls, seven World Series and 15 NBA Finals. Gray has won eight Emmy Awards and also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Scott Graham will be working his first Super Bowl for Westwood One, having joined the network this season as the pregame, halftime and postgame host for the network's Sunday NFL coverage. Graham has spent over twenty years as a radio and television sportscaster including play-by-play for the NFL and NFL Europe on FOX. On the radio side, Graham served as the play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies for eight seasons from 1999-2006. For nearly a decade prior to that, he hosted the pregame and postgame shows for the Phillies on CBS Radio in Philadelphia. He currently hosts a daily show on Sirius/XM's MLB Channel. Since 2003, Graham has narrated a variety of programs and features produced by NFL Films. His voice has most often been heard on NFL Game of the Week, in weekly game previews on NFL.com, and in various season highlight films for NFL teams. He also currently co-hosts Westwood One's weekly feature program, NFL Preview with Boomer Esiason.

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