The first two radio broadcasts of Pitt’s 2020 football season will not include longtime Panthers play-by-play announcer Bill Hillgrove, according to John McGonigal of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The radio voice of Pitt athletics has been suspended for the season opener and the following game as a result of a DUI charge from an incident in June.
The 79-year-old announcer was charged by Murrysville police on June 15 after the owner of an IGA grocery store said that Hillgrove drove his Honda CR-V into two store windows, walked into the store to pick up a prescription, got back into his vehicle and left, according to Megan Tomasic of the Tribune-Review.