Kevin Harlan: Salary, Net Worth and Earnings (Updated)
At the age of 22, Harlan joined the Kansas City Kings’ (now the Sacramento Kings’) television and radio broadcast team in 1982, shortly after graduating from college.
After spending a year calling basketball games for his alma mater, the University of Kansas, he then spent several years hosting and producing pre-and post-game programming while still an undergraduate. He subsequently went on to call matches for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs from 1985 to 1993.
In addition, Harlan split his time between calling basketball and football games at the University of Missouri (1986–89) and serving as the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA play-by-play announcer for nine seasons (1989–98).
Regarding television networks, Harlan called NFL football for NBC in 1991, college football for ESPN from 1992–1993, and NFL football for Fox from 1994–1997.
His Basement Broadcast Studio In 2020
In 2020, amid the COVID epidemic, Kevin Harlan spent much time in his furnished basement.
Whereas the Turner Sports announcer once found himself courtside at venues like the American Airlines Arena in Miami or the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Harlan announced NBA games from the basement of his century-old home in Mission Hills, Kansas. The studio is 15×8 in size.
According to the Athletic, when Harlan was calling games, there was an eight-foot “NBA on TNT” banner behind him.
Then, there were two 32-inch monitors on a rectangular folding table in front of Harlan, who was sitting in a Pottery Barn chair that his wife Ann had previously purchased for a basement table.
During games, a laptop computer was set up in front of Harlan, where he connected to the official real-time scoring of his match directly from the arena.
The Sportscaster’s Century-Old Home In Mission Hills
Per The Athletic, Harlan already had a home office established for his work on the NBA 2K video game series during the COVID epidemic.
He sets up his recording equipment, which includes laptops and gaming consoles, at the back of a large closet outside the main bedroom. From there, he can see Doris Burke and Clark Kellogg, two other game announcers, as he records.
However, the Harlans realized they would require much more room than a closet to accommodate Turner’s ambitions.
In addition, over four exhausting days, two members of CNN’s multimedia field engineering team traveled in from Atlanta to set up Harlan’s home studio. When Harlan called his first preseason game, he claimed to have two field engineers with him in his basement.
