In 1995, Bob Kesling was chosen as the Southern League Television Sportscaster of the Year. In 1992 and again in 1995 and 1996, the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters named Kesling Sportscaster of the Year in the State of Tennessee. Kesling's sports reporting have been honored by the Society of Professional Journalism most recently in 1993 and 1994. Also in 1993, the Associated Press awarded Action 10 Sports the Best Sportscast in Tennessee.

Besides his sports anchoring duties, Bob Kesling keeps a very busy play-by-play schedule. Since 1989, Kesling has worked for Jefferson-Pilot Sports as an anchor and play-by-play for SEC football, basketball and baseball. In 1998, Kesling was named lead play-by-play announcer for SEC football telecasts.

In addition, Bob Kesling has also done TV play-by-play for the University of Tennessee football and basketball teams as well as the Nashville Sounds baseball club. In 1993, Kesling called the radio play-by-play of the Women's Final Four College Basketball tournament for the NCAA CBS Radio Network.

Since 1977, Bob Kesling has been the radio and TV voice for the six-time NCAA National Championship University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. Kesling's other radio credits include play-by-play for the Knoxville Cherokee's Hockey Club, the Knoxville Blue Jays Baseball Club and has been a member of the University of Tennessee Vol Radio Network since 1978.

Bob Kesling got his broadcasting start in radio. He was sports director at Knoxville's WIVK radio from 1976-1980. During that time, the Associated Press honored WIVK twice for its outstanding sports coverage in the State of Tennessee.

Born in Dallas, Texas, Bob Kesling and his family later moved to Kettering, Ohio, where he attended Fairmont West High School. Kesling played on the University of Tennessee's freshman football team in 1972. While attending UT, Kesling served as the Assistant General Manager of the Knoxville baseball club.