death_date death_place children birth_place image_size nationality article_title name birth_date spouse image employer birth_name occupation death_cause
15 january 1976 cleveland , ohio , u.s. louis graner akron , ohio , u.s. 200px american jim graner
 jim graner 21 february 1919 margaret graner jim graner.jpg 1957 -rrb- 1955 & ndash ; 1960 , 1963 & ndash & ; 1975 : cleveland browns radio network -lrb- via stations ndash : wtam , wgar & nbsp ; -lrb- am -rrb- ; , were -lrb- 1300 am -rrb- , and whk -rrb- 1975 : kyw-tv/wkyc -lrb- tv-3 james r. graner tv sports anchor radio color commentator malignant brain tumor
jim graner

james r. `` jim '' graner -lrb- february 21 , 1919 - january 15 , 1976 -rrb- was the weeknight sports anchor for cleveland nbc affiliate kyw-tv -lrb- later wkyc -rrb- beginning in 1957 .
he also served as color commentator for the cleveland browns radio network , most notably alongside cleveland sportscaster gib shanley .
graner had operated in both capacities for nearly twenty years when brain cancer took his life in 1976 .
