Dave McCann

Who is Dave McCann?

Dave McCann is an evening anchor for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also the studio host for BYUtv's True Blue, is co-host for the Countdown to Kickoff Pregame Show and the Postgame Show, and is the lead play-by-play announcer for BYUtv's college football and men's basketball. McCann also occasionally calls women's college basketball with Kristen Kozlowski and college baseball games with Gary Sheide for BYUtv.

McCann is the third of 10 children in his family and is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a two-year mission for the church in San Antonio, Texas. Upon his return he enrolled at Brigham Young University where he earned a degree in broadcasting. He graduated from the university in 1991 and was hired by ABC's Good Morning America to be their first sports reporter. After a few years at ABC, McCann was hired by KLAS in Las Vegas, Nevada where he was the sports anchor for 13 years.

While in Las Vegas McCann was also granted additional duties, as the voice of UNLV's football radio play-by-play man for 14 seasons. McCann would also call men's basketball TV home games for the Rebels on KUPN and MWC broadcasts for Friday Night Football and the women's basketball tournament games for SportsWest Productions.