Ted Leitner

Ted Leitner (born July 9, 1947) is a former KFMB News 8 (in San Diego) sportscaster and current radio play-by-play announcer for San Diego Padres baseball and San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball and football. He is also a former host on KFMB radio in San Diego. Due to a hectic schedule, he left KFMB just three days shy of his 25th anniversary at that station. He kept his play-by-play job with the San Diego Padres (who left that station around the same time for cross-town rival KOGO) and later XX Sports Radio (he also for a short time tried an afternoon show on XX Sports Radio as well). His association with the Padres dates back to 1980.

Background

Leitner was born in 1947 in the Bronx, New York and later at age 8 moved to Yonkers, New York, a city that borders New York City. He played football for Roosevelt High School in Yonkers. After high school, he attended and graduated from Oklahoma State University and then completed a master's degree at Oklahoma University in Norman, Oklahoma. Before starting his long tenure in San Diego, Leitner worked as a broadcaster in Hartford, Connecticut and Philadelphia. He has been a broadcaster for the Philadelphia Eagles, the San Diego Clippers, the San Diego Chargers, the San Diego Padres and with university sports in Oklahoma, Hartford, Connecticut and San Diego. He has six sons and one daughter. He has been divorced four times.