Stockton, a Syracuse University grad, announced Miami Dolphins preseason games as the play-by-play announcer on WFOR-TV Channel 4 since 2010. The exception was in 2013 when Jesse Agler had the role.
He was employed as a sportscaster in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at the start of his broadcasting career. Stockton landed in 1971 at WBZ-TV and WBZ-AM in Boston. He would become the television voice of the Boston Celtics from 1974 to 1977 and the Boston Red Sox from 1975 to 1978.
Stockton has been heard on a national basis on several television networks. He spent two years as an NFL play-by-play announcer at NBC Sports until 1977.
He was with CBS Sports as a NFL play-by-play announcer from 1978 to 1993. Stockton became the primary television voice of the National Basketball Association on CBS Sports from 1981 to 1990. His game analysts included Bill Russell, Tommy Heinsohn, Billy Cunningham and Hubie Brown. Stockton worked as the secondary voice on the Major League Baseball from 1990 until 1993. He added Turner Broadcasting duties in the late 1980's and called NBA games for over 25 years.
He joined Fox Sports when they began to carry the National Football League in 1994. Stockton added play-by-play announcer duties of Major League Baseball in 1996. He also called the National Hockey League with that organization during the 1994-95 season. Stockton did his final NFL game with Fox Sports in 2020.
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