Jim Nantz, the three-time Emmy Award winner and five-time National Sportscaster of the Year, joined the CBS Television Network in 1985. He currently serves as the primary announcer of play-by-play games for the NFL ON CBS, including the Super Bowl and Thursday Night Football games. He also serves as the main anchor of CBS's golf coverage which includes the PGA Tour, Masters and the PGA Championship; and lead announcer for the college basketball game as well as the NCAA Men's Final Four. Nantz was the first broadcaster to simultaneously air the Super Bowl, NCAA Men's Final Four and the Masters in 2007. He will once again do the same thing in 2016.In August 2011, Nantz received the Pro Football Hall of Fame Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He is the youngest recipient ever to receive this award. Nantz also was honored by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as its youngest recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2002. Nantz joins Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy as the only broadcasters to receive both Pro Football and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors.
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