“The late, great ABC golf anchor Jim McKay once advised me, 'When you look into the camera, imagine you are talking to one person on the other end.' The next time you hear 'Hello, friends' at the start of a broadcast, just know that I'm channeling my father at that very moment. I see him on the other side of that camera, smiling right back.”

American sportscaster

Jim Nantz is an American sportscaster who has been a familiar CBS voice since 1985. Born James William Nantz III, he has covered major professional and college sports across football, basketball, golf, and the PGA Tour. He has anchored CBS’s Masters Tournament coverage since 1989 and became the network’s lead NFL play-by-play announcer in 2004. From 1990 to 2023, he was also the lead broadcaster for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, making his career closely associated with some of CBS’s best-known sports broadcasts.