{"id":872259,"date":"2026-10-06T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:50:08","slug":"diamondbacks-parting-ways-with-play-by-play-announcer-steve-berthiaume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872259\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks parting ways with play-by-play announcer Steve Berthiaume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks have confirmed they will not retain Steve Berthiaume as the team\u2019s play-by-play announcer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Berthiaume is the longest-tenured play-by-play man in Diamondbacks history, with 14 seasons as the team\u2019s television voice on FOX Sports Arizona alongside analyst Bob Brenly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before joining the Diamondbacks, Berthiaume spent 12 years at ESPN, where he worked as a \u201cSportsCenter\u201d anchor and \u201cBaseball Tonight\u201d host. He also served as a play-by-play announcer for ESPN\u2019s league-wide MLB package and called games for the College World Series Super Regional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prior to ESPN, Berthiaume spent three years as a sports anchor at CNN in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Diamondbacks did not give a reason for not retaining Berthiaume. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks have confirmed they will not retain Steve Berthiaume as the team\u2019s play-by-play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[367560,4958,367562,367559,367563,367557,363,19156,99,367561,367558],"class_list":["post-872259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks-play-by-play-change","tag-azfamily","tag-berthiaume-espn-sportscenter-history","tag-diamondbacks-announcer-not-returning","tag-diamondbacks-broadcast-team","tag-diamondbacks-steve-berthiaume","tag-mlb","tag-phoenix-news","tag-sports","tag-steve-berthiaume-diamondbacks-tv-voice","tag-steve-berthiaume-leaving-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}