Before Southern California
Before the Chargers, Hamilton was announcer for the football and basketball programs at Arizona State University and a talk-show host in Phoenix for news/talk/sports station KTAR. His show, "620 Sportsline", was a four-hour show similar in format to the show he would host in Southern California. During his tenure at KTAR, Hamilton engaged in a long-running feud with then-Arizona Republic columnist Tom Fitzpatrick, whom he dubbed "Trashcan Tom Fitzpatrick." Fitzpatrick countered with blasting Hamilton in his column for being self-important and being all style and no substance. The main reason he gave for leaving KTAR was a chance to do play-by-play for the Chargers, since Phoenix didn't have an NFL team at the time.
Even earlier, in the mid-1970s, he was play-by-play voice of the Mohawk Valley Comets - Clinton, New York, Utica, New York of the North American Hockey League, Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association, hosted an evening sports talk radio show on Akron, Ohio talk station WHLO, and hosted the long-running sports radio program Sportswatch on WIBX in Utica.
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