James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Division I men’s basketball, the NBA and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s.
Nantz joined CBS Sports in 1985, initially working as a studio host for the network’s college football and basketball coverage, and as an on-course reporter for PGA Tour golf, as well as calling NFL games on Westwood One
He has anchored CBS’s coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and has been the lead play-by-play announcer on CBS’s NFL coverage since 2004.
Nantz is also one of two men to host a Super Bowl, announce an NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game, and host coverage of The Masters from Butler Cabin with Brent Musburger being the other.
During Super Bowl XLVII, Joe Flacco unknowingly hit Nantz with the Vince Lombardi Trophy during the presentation, but Nantz simply brushed it off.
Nantz and broadcast partner Phil Simms called Thursday Night Football games in a deal with CBS and the NFL Network. Tracy Wolfson was the sideline reporter for the Thursday games along with the Sunday games on CBS.
Jim Nantz Net Worth
Jim Nantz is an American sportscaster who has a net worth of $15 million dollars. Jim Nantz was born May 17, 1959, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has worked on telecasts of the NFL, NCAA, men’s basketball and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the ’90s.
Nantz has also been the NFL announcer on CBS’s top play-by-play since 2004. He attended the University of Houston in Texas, where he majored in broadcasting and played on the Houston Cougars men’s golf team, where he also roomed with future professional golfers Fred Couples and Blaine McCallister.
Nantz won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play in both 2008 and 2009. He has been honoured with the NSSA’s National Sportscaster of the Year award five times (1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009).
In 2011, Nantz was named a recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Houston in 2001.
He is also one of the youngest recipients of the Basketball Hall of Fame’s Curt Gowdy award for broadcasting. Nantz was awarded the Ambassador Award of Excellence by the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission in 2012 for his involvement in the community.