Legends of Broadcast: Bob Carpenter
You must be a National Press Club member to attend and registration is required.
Oct 22 2025
WHEN:
Oct 22, 2025 at 6:00pm
WHERE:
Fourth Estate Room
CONTACT INFO:
Madison Siciliano
MORE INFO:
Dinner
Bob Carpenter, longtime TV voice of the Washington Nationals and veteran sportscaster, will be the National Press Club Broadcast-Podcast Team's newest guest in its series of "Legends of Broadcast."
Bob Carpenter is in his 20th season with the Nationals and 42nd as a Major League Baseball broadcaster. He plans to retire after the 2025 season, concluding a career that has spanned more than four decades.
A two-time Emmy winner, Carpenter has covered a wide range of sports. He spent 18 years at ESPN, where he hosted the first "College Gameday" and called college football, basketball, and MLB games. He also covered seven NCAA basketball tournaments, including the 2005 Final Four, and broadcast major events like the U.S. Open, The Masters, and two Soccer World Cups.
In 2014, he was named Washington D.C. Sportscaster of the Year and was inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2017. Across thousands of broadcasts, he has become one of the most respected voices in American sports.
These limited-access informal events allow NPC members and their guests to hear the honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A.
Cost of the three-course dinner with 2 glasses of wine is $70 for National Press Club members.
A cash bar reception will begin at 6 p.m. with introductions and dinner following at 6:45 p.m. Our guest of honor will make remarks and then open the floor to an informal Q&A session to end by 8:30.
Bob Carpenter is in his 20th year as TV voice of the Washington Nationals and his 42nd season as a major league baseball broadcaster. Has has announced his upcoming retirement at the end of the 2025 season. In 2014, he was named Washington DC Sportscaster of the Year, was nominated two other times, and in 2017 was inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
He served 17 years as TV voice for OU Mens and Womens Basketball, and 2017 marked his 40th anniversary calling hoops. Bob has won 2 Emmys for Cardinals baseball and was nominated for two others. In 18 years with ESPN, he was a mainstay of their college basketball, football and Major League Baseball coverage. He has announced 7 NCAA Tournaments, numerous NITs and the NCAA Final 4 in 2005 for NCAA International. His football work with ESPN included being the first-ever host of College Gameday, plus play-by-play of primetime Saturday night games and numerous Bowl Games. Bob also announced 2 Soccer World Cups in 1982 and 1994.
Bob’s work with USA Network in the ‘80s included hosting the U.S. Open Tennis Championships and Masters Golf, college football and basketball, and professional boxing and soccer.
He is a past Sports Director at Channel 8 and KRAV Radio in Tulsa and was TV and radio voice of the Tulsa Roughnecks Soccer Club for 7 years. He has done play-by-play of thousands of sporting events in more than a dozen sports at every level.
His broadcasting travels have taken him around the world, but he has called Tulsa home for 49 years. Bob and his wife Debbie have been married 45 years and have two daughters, Katie and Allison, son-in-law Ryan Schooley and grandsons James and Ben. For 15 years, the Carpenters hosted the annual Operation Hope Golf Tournament, raising over $550,000 for this important Tulsa charity.