{"id":293715,"date":"2026-06-02T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293715\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:09:07","slug":"former-heat-radio-voice-david-halberstam-dies-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293715\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Heat radio voice David Halberstam dies, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0June 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM<\/p>\n

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MIAMI \u2014 David Halberstam, the Miami Heat\u2019s original radio play-by-play announcer, has died after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, according to multiple reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Halberstam, 74, spent nearly five decades working in sports broadcasting and management. <\/p>\n

He served as the Heat\u2019s radio play-by-play voice from the franchise\u2019s inaugural seasons in 1992 through 1998, helping introduce the expansion team to South Florida fans.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Heat, Halberstam was the play-by-play announcer for St. John\u2019s men\u2019s basketball from 1982 to 1992. His Wikipedia states<\/a> that he later moved into sports media management, serving as executive vice president and general manager of Westwood One Sports from 2002 to 2008.<\/p>\n

Halberstam was succeeded as the Heat\u2019s radio voice by Mike Inglis, who later passed the role to current broadcaster Jason Jackson.<\/p>\n

Halberstam in 2011 joined the Nova Southeastern University Sharks Athletics family as its Men\u2019s Basketball play-by-play announcer. <\/p>\n

In addition to his broadcasting career, Halberstam was also an author and longtime sports executive.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 David Halberstam, the Miami Heat\u2019s original radio play-by-play announcer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-293715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}