Scott Lynn

I've been fortunate to be in a business I love for more than 33 years. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in 1976, I started my broadcasting career in TV in Decatur, Illinois. I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1978 to work at WTSP-TV (April 1978-August 1980), then headed to Portland in 1980. After spending more than 13 years exclusively in television (9 years at KGW-TV in Portland), I switched to radio and joined 1190 KEX in May of 1989. I hosted KEX SportsLine (a 2-hour nightly sports talk program) and The 5th Quarter with Scott Lynn after every Trail Blazers' game from 1989 to '95. In September of 1995, I switched duties to anchor the morning, noon, and afternoon sports reports, and that is what I have done for more than 14 years!

During my time at KEX Radio I have also free-lanced as a TV play-by-play man for Fox Sports Northwest, Comcast SportsNet Northwest, the Oregon State Television Network, and have also worked games on local channels KPTV and KPDX as well as some national games on Versus. I have called the action in a wide variety of sports including football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, beach volleyball, and professional indoor lacrosse (including the 2007 NLL All-Star game on Versus at the Rose Garden). Through the years I've called games for Oregon State, Oregon, Gonzaga, Washington, Portland, and Portland State as well as the OSAA state championship games in football and boys and girls basketball. Tune in this winter to see me calling the Portland Pilots mens' basketball games on Comcast SportsNet Northwest.

I also have become a published author. My first book, Thornridge: The Perfect Season in Black and White is now available. If you are a basketball fan, I think you'll enjoy it!
Check it out at www.thornridgebook.com. I am a colon cancer survivor and wrote much of the book while undergoing chemotherapy in 2009.

While serving as the Sports Director of KEX Radio the last 20 years, I'm proud to say KEX has won the Associated Press award for "Best Sports Coverage" in Oregon 16 times! I've been fortunate to have been honored as Oregon Sportscaster of the Year seven times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. I'm quite proud of the fact that I have won three Edward R. Murrow regional awards and several Oregon AP awards for "Best Use of Audio" for stories I have produced for 1190 KEX.

I have been married to Sharon for 32 years, and we have two grown children, Adam (25) and Kelsey (21).