Commentators and Hosts
There have been many commentators in the history of Heat. Industry veterans and Raw broadcasters Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler have done commentary on the show. The show was also the launchpad for Shane McMahon's on-camera career in WWE, originally placed in the role of a commentator for the program. In October 2000, the show was hosted by Rebecca Budig and MTV VJ/Rapper DJ Skribble when it moved from USA Network to MTV.
During pay-per-view events and often outside the venue, hosts introduce segments of the show, recently the hosts of The WWE Experience (Ivory and Todd Grisham) perform these duties. If a SmackDown brand pay-per-view takes place, Velocity's announcers host the in-ring commentary for the show.
Often wrestlers would take the role of color commentators on the show with Al Snow, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, and D'Lo Brown all holding this position mostly as a replacement for an announcer who was unavailable. During the show's run on MTV, Diva Lita also served as a commentator following her major neck injury.
Before the WWE-produced Extreme Championship Wrestling reunion pay-per-view One Night Stand 2005 took place, a special Extreme Heat episode was broadcast and hosted by Jonathan Coachman and Michael Cole.
During one episode when Jonathan Coachman was unavailable, former ECW announcer (and then-lead Raw announcer) Joey Styles took part in the show. Styles then quit in storyline, however, on the following Monday's' Raw, meaning Grisham ran the show alone.
Shortly before being canceled, in March 2008 Todd Grisham and Josh Matthews were doing commentary during a match on Heat between Snitsky and Val Venis when Matthews mentioned that a "former" WWE wrestler by the name of Issac Yankem DDS would match up well against Snitsky. Grisham then made a comment that Yankem resembles Kane and suggesting that they might be brothers, thus breaking kayfabe by outing Glenn Jacobs as the man who portrayed Yankem before his more famous gimmick as the younger brother to The Undertaker. Although the commentary was edited out before being uploaded to WWE.com for the United States market, WWE still sent the original, unedited version overseas before it was noticed by company executives. Grisham was reprimanded for the incident.
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