Jeff Levering

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Jeff Levering
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Levering at Angel Stadium in 2024
OccupationSportscaster
Years active2005–present

Jeff Levering is an American sportscaster. Levering is currently the lead play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers on Bally Sports, and he served as the secondary announcer to Bob Uecker with the Brewers Radio Network (usually the primary for road games outside the Midwest). He was named to this position for the 2022 season. [1]

Broadcasting career

Levering graduated from Chapman University in 2005 and immediately became a sports broadcaster. His career began in Rancho Cucamonga with the Class A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League. He was a radio broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals AA team from 2010 to 2012, then worked for the Boston Red Sox AAA team from 2012 to 2015. [2] Levering then joined the Brewers radio team in 2015. In 2021, the Brewers announced that Levering would become a permanent broadcaster for the television broadcasts as Brian Anderson began to work more prominently for Turner and CBS Sports. Levering also occasionally works for Fox Sports and BTN covering college basketball, football and baseball, including occasional Brewers games carried nationally as part of the MLB on Fox package.

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References

  1. "Jeff Levering will do more television broadcasts for the Brewers in 2022". jsonline.com. Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  2. "Former Cardinals Broadcaster Jeff Levering joins Brewers Radio Team". milb.com. MiLB. Retrieved November 8, 2021.