Franklin-native Mike Keith, the 2006 Tennessee Sportscaster of the Year, begins his eighth year as the "Voice of the Titans" in 2006. The NFL's second-youngest play-by-play announcer was actually the first ever associated with Tennessee's NFL team. In 1996, while the team was in Houston, Keith hosted a pre-game show for Tennessee stations who carried the Oilers games. The Franklin-native served as the network's scoreboard host in 1997 before moving into the booth as color analyst in 1998 and then assuming the play-by-play duties in 1999.
On May 26, 1998, Keith joined the Titans full-time as Director of Broadcasting. He came to the Titans after becoming one of Tennessee's most honored sportscasters while working in Knoxville for WIVK/WNOX Radio and the Vol Radio Network. From 1989-98, the AP State broadcasters five times named Keith's play-by-play work and his daily sports talk show as the best in Tennessee. Among his other awards, Keith won a 1997 RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for nationwide excellence in sports reporting.
In 1999, Keith joined former University of Tennessee quarterback Pat Ryan and Titans Radio executive producer Larry Stone as the Titans' broadcast team that called Tennessee's Super Bowl run. That run included the now-famous "Miracle Play," a special teams touchdown that give the Titans a wild card playoff round win over Buffalo. Keith and Ryan's description of the play has been featured on numerous national programs.
Keith is a 1986 graduate of Franklin's Battle Ground Academy and a 1991 graduate of the University of Tennessee. He is married to Michelle Johnson Keith and has two children, Abby and Matthew.