Jason Benetti
NBC Sports Chicago Play-by-Play
Jason Benetti enters his eighth season as a member of the White Sox TV broadcast team, and his fifth as the club's full-time play-by-play voice alongside analyst Steve Stone ... signed with FOX Sports in August 2022 to handle play-by-play of college football and basketball, NFL and Major League Baseball games ... was one of 10 finalists for the National Sports Media Association's National Sportscaster of the Year Award in 2022 ... ranked first in the Chicago Sun-Times second annual Chicago sports broadcast media power rankings in 2022 ... served as the inaugural play-by-play voice of NBC/Peacock's "MLB Sunday Leadoff" package in 2022 ... has called select Chicago Bulls games over the last four seasons with Stacey King on NBC Sports Chicago ... serves as co-host for the NBA's alternate telecast "Throw It Down With Bill Walton" alongside the Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Walton (also called a White Sox game with Walton in 2019) ...was named the 2020 Illinois Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association ... also does play-by-play for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on Westwood One ...spent 11 years as a play-by-play announcer at ESPN, where he called a variety of sports, including his role as the play-by-play announcer for ESPN's innovative "Statcast" broadcasts of MLB regular season and playoff games, plus the Home Run Derby ... called a majority of Sox home games and select road games in 2016-17 and 140 games in 2018 ... handled PxP for the first ever college football game at Guaranteed Rate Field on 11/9/16 when Toledo defeated Northern Illinois in the "Huskie Chi-Town Showdown" ... helped create and oversees the popular broadcast segment "SoxMath" ... participated in a baseball experience for visually impaired students and visited patients at Ronald McDonald House during Sox Serve Week 2016 ... prior to joining the White Sox, spent 10 years as an announcer in minor-league baseball ... was born with cerebral palsy (CP) and is part of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's 'Just Say Hi' campaign that launched in 2015 ... participated in the CPF's Awkward Moments campaign, an online animated series which humorously examines interactions involving disability ... does speaking engagements in Chicago and across he country discussing disability and how it's impacted his life ... visited with families and patients at LaRabida - Children's Hospital during Sox Serve Week 2018 ... served as emcee for the 2018 Beyond the Diamond CWSC inaugural event ... is a 2005 graduate of Syracuse University (bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, economics and psychology) ... worked as an adjunct professor at Syracuse's S.I. Newhouse School for Communications ... earned a juris doctor from Wake Forest''s School of Law in 2011 ... is a Chicago-area native, and graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School ... resides in Highland Park, Ill.