Barry tompkins biography

American sportscaster (born )

Barry David Tompkins (born May 2, ) is an American sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered football and other sports.

Early life

Tompkins was born and raised in San Francisco.^[1]

Career

KCBS, KPIX, WNBC, NBC Sports and KRON

He began his broadcasting career at San Francisco radio station KCBS in ^[2] Tompkins was hired as sports director at the San Francisco CBS television affiliate, KPIX-TV.^[2]

In , he moved to New York to join WNBC-TV as a sports anchor and feature reporter, before moving to NBC Sports in to host weekly radio shows as well as television play-by-play for basketball and football.

Tompkins spent five years at NBC.

Tompkins returned to San Francisco in and joined then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV as sports director, while continuing to cover Pac basketball for NBC as well as feature stories for its NFL pre-game show.

He left KRON in