Gary DeLaune​

Sports broadcaster Gary DeLaune’s career spanned five decades, with a unique broadcast style that both informs and entertains. He is a 55-year veteran high school play-by-play announcer in Texas and has been involved with college and professional sports teams since 1961, when he served as a broadcaster for the American Football League Dallas Texans for two seasons and as a member of the Dallas Cowboys broadcast team for three seasons (1964-66). ​

DeLaune was one of the first announcers for the American Basketball Association in 1967-68.  From 1968 through `71 he was the voice of the Houston Astrodome. He began his Texas radio and television broadcast career in 1960, first in Dallas and Houston before coming to KENS-TV in San Antonio, where he worked for 28 years as a reporter, producer and sports anchor. In 1973, DeLaune was the first San Antonio sportscaster to become a member of the Spurs basketball broadcast team. DeLaune’s other firsts include: first announcer to broadcast a UTSA basketball game, where he was the voice of the Roadrunners for five years; and first San Antonio sportscaster to broadcast the state basketball and football championship games from Austin in the same season.​

DeLaune was the voice of the University of the Incarnate Word basketball for seven seasons and Southwest Texas State football and basketball in 1992. He was named to the Lone Star Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2006 and inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.​