Marty Reid
Marty Reid | |
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Sportscaster | |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Karla (m. 1996) |
Martin Reid "Marty" Klingeman (born February 3, 1953), known professionally as Marty Reid, is an American television sportscaster who worked for
Career
Reid first dabbled in radio when his older brother, a disc jockey, needed another voice for a radio ad.[1] In the following years, Reid worked on his sportscasting by calling Hershey Bears games into a tape recorder.[1]
As Reid developed, he gained the opportunity to call
In 1988, he started Marty Reid Enterprises, a video production company that worked closely with ESPN.[1] He founded the short course off-road racing series Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) in 1997 and sold it to Jim Baldwin in 2005.[2]
Concurrently, Reid commentated off-road racing, the
In 1998, the utility player Reid was rewarded with the play-by-play role for ESPN's coverage of the
Reid then returned to his drag racing roots as the lead TV announcer for the
After Reid's work with the NHRA, ESPN and
When
On September 29, 2013, Reid called his final race for ESPN, accidentally giving the win of the
After a thirty-one-year career with ESPN and its related networks, Reid did not return to television or radio.
Personal life
When Reid was a teenager, his older brother died in a motorcycle crash in Roanoke, VA. Reid's father, Robert Klingeman, passed in 1998,[1] the year Reid took over as play-by-play announcer for NASCAR's Truck Series. In 2006, Reid's mother, Anne Klingeman, died just one day before Reid was asked to take over the Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar coverage for ABC and ESPN.[1]
Reid and his wife, Karla, reside in Brownsburg, IN.
After years out of the spotlight, Reid would announce that he was running as a Democrat for county council in Hendricks County for the 2020 election.[5] Reid would lose, scoring only 11 percent of the vote. All three Democratic challengers lost.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "ESPN motorsports commentator Marty Reid 'brings a sense of experience' to broadcasts". 29 July 2010.
- ^ "CORR/Vegas race report 1998 EXXON Superflor winter series". Archived from the original on 2009-06-17. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
- ^ a b c d ESPN Replaces Racing Announcer 29/09/13
- The Huffington Post. 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
- ^ "Home - Reid for County Council". www.reidforcountycouncil.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.