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BILL COATES

Sportstalk/Sports Director for KTBB 

Bill Coates is a Tyler native and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He got his start in radio in Austin, moving on to WBAP in Dallas in the early eighties. Bill has been broadcasting college and professional sports since 1981, working with the Southwest Conference Radio Network, as the radio voice of the TCU Horned, the TV voice of the SMU Mustangs, radio play by play for the Dallas Mavericks and a variety of national radio broadcast networks. Bill has broadcast three bowl games, two Texas high school football championship games and the Western Athletic Conference Championship game for CBS Radio. Locally, he has been the play by play voice of Tyler Junior College, UT Tyler Basketball, and both Tyler Lee and John Tyler football.

Bill is a six-time winner of the Associated Press award for Best Sportscast in Texas, three time winner of Best Sports Play by Play in Texas and the 1988 Dallas Press Club "Katie" award winner for best sportscast.

Bill is actively involved in the South Tyler Rotary Club where he served as President for 2005-2006.

Bill and his wife Diana have three children, Pearson, Lani, and Braden.