Meet Bill Roth, the new voice of your UCLA Bruins! Today, the UCLA Athletic Department introduced Mr. Roth as the next play-by-play announcer for both UCLA football and basketball. The Hall-of-Fame announcer has been the Virginia Tech football and basketball announcer for the last 27 years, but now brings his experience across the country to UCLA.
Roth replaces long time UCLA announcer Chris Roberts who let his retirement be known prior to the 2014 UCLA football season. After the basketball season ended a few weeks ago, there was speculation about who would replace Roberts. Ron Pitts of CBS Sports, College Football Announcer Josh Lewin and Matt Smith of 570 AM LA Sports were all said to have been candidates.