Joey Wahler

Joey Wahler has been an update anchor at WFAN since 2004. A sports anchor/reporter at News 12 New Jersey since 2000, he has covered the Giants, Jets, Nets, Devils, Seton Hall, Rutgers and beyond. Since 2009 Wahler does human interest features for MSG Varsity, Cablevision’s tri-state area high school sports and activities channel. From 2000 to 2005 he was a sports anchor/reporter at Madison Square Garden Network. Wahler’s first role at MSG was filling in for his idol, Marv Albert, anchoring SportsDesk. Wahler’s News 12 and MSG work has earned him seven New York Emmy Award nominations, including for Best Sports Anchor and Best Sportscast in 2007, Best Sports Reporter in 2008, and Best Sports Anchor and Best Sportscast in 2010.

In 2010-2011, Wahler became America’s only play-by-play announcer calling games for two Division I men’s basketball programs, St. Peter’s College and Long Island University. Remarkably, both teams made the NCAA Tournament in 2011, with Wahler calling their respective victories in the MAAC Championship Game and the Northeast Conference Championship Game just 48 hours apart. He has been the voice of LIU basketball since 2006.

From 2006 through 2008 Wahler called a full slate of national college basketball play-by-play on CBS Radio/Westwood One, including No. 1 Memphis vs. No. 2 Tennessee, the Pac 10 Championship, and 12 NCAA Tournament games. In the 2007 Big Dance, he called Virginia Commonwealth’s first-round upset of Duke and Butler’s second-round upset of Maryland, the latter culminating with his cry, “The twerps have beaten the Terps!” Wahler anchored national updates for Westwood One during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

Wahler was formerly the voice of Rider University basketball, including the Broncs’ 1994-95 NCAA Tournament appearance. His play-by-play experience began at WSOU while attending Seton Hall University, where Wahler was mentored by late sportscasting legend Marty Glickman. MSG Network named Wahler the best basketball announcer on college radio in the tri-state area in 1991. He was awarded by calling one quarter of a Knick game live on WFAN with analyst Walt Frazier.