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Jason Benetti was born on 9 September, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American sportscaster (born 1983). Discover Jason Benetti's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

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Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September, 1983
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1983

Jason Benetti (born September 9, 1983) is an American sportscaster.

Beginning in 2024, Benetti will serve as the primary television play-by-play announcer for Detroit Tigers baseball on Bally Sports Detroit.

2001

Benetti grew up a few miles south of Chicago in Homewood, Illinois, and graduated from the Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 2001.

He ran the school's NCAA tournament pool and joined the school's radio station, WHFH (88.5) as a regular disc jockey and play-by-play announcer for Vikings sports coverage.

Benetti's cerebral palsy prevented him from playing tuba during marching band season.

Not wanting to exclude him, the band director asked him to serve as the halftime broadcaster for their marching events.

2005

Benetti attended S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and graduated in 2005 with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism, economics and psychology.

At Syracuse, he worked at WAER-FM and WJPZ FM where he called Syracuse Orange lacrosse and women's basketball.

2011

After graduating from Syracuse, Benetti enrolled at Wake Forest University School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2011.

During law school, Benetti acted as the voice of High Point Panthers basketball games, Syracuse Chiefs baseball games, and high school sports for Time Warner Cable Sports Channel.

He also in worked roles with Fox Sports 1, Westwood One, Big East Conference, IMG College, Salem Avalanche, and DePaul University.

Benetti served as an intern for Chicago sports radio station WSCR.

In 2011 Benetti joined ESPN, where his broadcasting career would move him into television, despite his childhood preference for radio-only broadcasting.

Benetti would call select college basketball games for the ESPN3 online service, and then move on to ESPN2 and ESPNU.

2013

In 2013 Benetti called his first football game for ESPN's syndicated American Athletic Conference package.

2016

From 2016 to 2023, he performed the same role for Chicago White Sox baseball, and served as an alternate play-by-play announcer for Chicago Bulls basketball, on NBC Sports Chicago.

Now primarily contracted with Fox Sports nationally, Benetti was formerly the main announcer for ESPN's alternate "StatCast" telecasts, and additionally has worked for NBC Sports, Westwood One, and Time Warner covering football, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, and basketball.

Benetti was born ten weeks prematurely at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he remained for the first three months of his life.

While in intensive care, Benetti developed a respiratory illness that deprived his blood of oxygen; this may have caused his cerebral palsy, which was diagnosed when he was a toddler.

Benetti underwent years of physical therapy and two surgeries to improve his ability to walk.

Beginning with the 2016 season, Benetti replaced recently retired Hall of fame broadcaster Ken Harrelson as the television play-by-play announcer for select Chicago White Sox home and road games, where he would be paired with Steve Stone.

2017

In May 2017, the White Sox announced Benetti would take over full-time play-by-play duties in 2019 upon Harrelson's retirement.

In November 2023, Benetti was named as the principal play-by-play announcer for Detroit Tigers telecasts on Bally Sports Detroit beginning in the 2024 season.

In 2021, Benetti was named as play-by-play announcer for NBC's coverage of baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

On April 26, 2022, it was reported that Benetti would serve as the lead play-by-play announcer for the new NBC Sports-produced MLB Sunday Leadoff games for Peacock, joined by rotating analysts representing the teams in each game.

In August 2022, Benetti moved to Fox Sports and does play by play for Fox's coverage of college football and basketball, as well as Major League Baseball.

Even after the move, he continued calling games for NBC Sports Chicago.

In week 17 and 18 of the 2022 NFL season, Benetti would work his first games for the NFL on Fox, doing play-by-play as the Arizona Cardinals visited the Atlanta Falcons to start, followed by the Carolina Panthers against the New Orleans Saints in week 18 and filled-in for Brandon Gaudin, who filled-in for Wayne Larrivee on the Green Bay Packers radio network.

Benetti works with the CHAT ("Communication Hope through Assistive Technology") Camp at Syracuse University's Burton Blatt Institute.

At Syracuse’s Newhouse School, he taught sports broadcasting as an adjunct professor.

Benetti is part of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's "Just Say Hi" campaign.

2020

In 2020, Benetti signed a multi-year extension with ESPN, and during that year called KBO League games remotely for the network due to the COVID-19-induced delay of the 2020 Major League Baseball season.