Career Highlights
Al McCoy's first job in radio was at KJFJ in Webster City, Iowa. He later worked for three years at WHO (AM) in Des Moines, and he is still a frequent guest on "Two Guys Named Jim," a sports-talk show on WHO.
Prior to joining the Suns on September 27, 1972 McCoy was the broadcaster for the Triple-A Phoenix Giants baseball club and "One of the Good Guys," a DJ on KRUX 1360 AM. McCoy was also the weekend television play-by-play man for the Arizona Diamondbacks during the club's first season in 1998. He worked with Joe Garagiola.
McCoy was actually present at U.S. Airways Center for the aforementioned 2005 game he missed due to illness, hosting the "Suns Warmup" pregame radio show, "Suns Report" postgame show, as well as some analysis prior to the second half. Play-by-play for the radio broadcast was a feed of the KUTP (UPN 45) audio featuring Tom Leander and Eddie Johnson. Suns flagship radio station KTAR used radio commercials to cover the audio during commercials.
McCoy was on hand to cover the unforgettable Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals in which Garfield Heard made the game-tying basket that sent the game into triple overtime.
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