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[email protected] 336-655-2976 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMRICK, LEY, KING, KORNHEISER ELECTED TO NSMA HALL OF FAME BURKE, WOJNAROWSKI WIN NATIONAL AWARDS McISAAC, WHALEY WIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (January 14, 2019) – Mike “Doc” Emrick, Bob Ley, Peter King, and Tony Kornheiser have been voted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and will be inducted this June, NSMA executive director Dave Goren announced. Goren also said that NSMA members voted Doris Burke as the 2018 National Sportscaster of the Year, Adrian Wojnarowski as the 2018 National Sportswriter of the Year; and members in each state elected 109 state Sportscasters and Sportswriters of the Year from 49 states, plus the District of Columbia. They will be honored during the 60th annual NSMA Awards Weekend, June 22-24, 2019 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Justin McIsaac, color commentator on the UNH Wildcats Sports Network/Learfield, was voted the 2018 New Hampshire Sportscaster of the Year. It’s his first state win. Mike Whaley, of the Foster’s Daily Democrat, won his second New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year Award. Emrick has served as the lead play-by-play voice for National Hockey League telecasts on NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network since 2011, just the latest stint in a hockey broadcasting career that began in 1973, as the voice of the Port Huron Flags. He has won the prestigious Foster Hewitt Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame and is enshrined in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.