2021 Promise Ball

Joe D'Ambrosio

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Joe D’Ambrosio is a lifelong Connecticut resident who has been working in Connecticut media since 1978, and has battled T1D since 1982.

Currently, Joe is the morning sportscaster on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 and co-hosts the WTIC Morning Show with Ray Dunaway. He is also a sportscaster at Fox 61 in Hartford, hosting “Friday Night Sports Ticket” and handling play-by-play for UConn Men’s ice hockey and baseball telecasts.

From 1992 through the 2017-18 season, Joe was the radio voice of UConn football and men’s basketball. In addition, Joe broadcast UConn Women’s basketball from 1995 through 1998 and again from 2000 through 2006. He has called eight National Championships in his career, been a part of eleven Final Fours and called six bowl games, including the 2011 Fiesta Bowl.

Joe also broadcast UConn hockey from 2015- 2018 and did play-by-play for UConn post season baseball from 2009 through 2013.

Joe was a sports anchor and reporter for NBC Connecticut from 1990 through 2017. He broadcast New Britain Rock Cats games from 2009 through 2011 and was a host and anchor for ESPN Radio from 1996 through 2012. He has been named Connecticut Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscaster and Sportswriters Association a state record nine times and received the Dean of Sports Award at the Franciscan Sports Banquet in June of 2018.

Joe is a native of Hartford, attended SouthCatholic High School and currently lives in Bloomfield and Old Saybrook.