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Al Trautwig, who brought sports fans along with him to Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes, champagne-doused locker rooms and the medal podium at the Olympics over a broadcast career of more than three decades, died on Sunday at his home on Long Island. He was 68.

His son, Alex, said the cause was complications of cancer.

In the largest U.S. media market, where no detail is too minute for sports talk radio, Mr. Trautwig was for a generation a familiar face on New York Rangers and Knicks broadcasts on MSG Networks. He also covered Yankees games before the team started its own cable network in 2002.

Mr. Trautwig had a wider audience: He covered 16 Olympics, most recently for NBC, focusing on gymnastics. His work earned him four national Emmys and more than 30 New York Emmys. He was also named New York sportscaster of the year in 2000 by the National Sports Media Association.

Alan Hahn, an ESPN Radio host and a studio analyst for MSG Networks, described Mr. Trautwig in a as a mentor and teacher. “Al Trautwig had an amazing voice and knew how to use it the way a tenor could bring depth and intensity to a song,” he wrote.

Mr. Trautwig’s ascent on cable television coincided with a New York sports renaissance in the mid-1990s. It was defined by the 1994 hockey and basketball season, and cemented by the Yankees dynasty that began in 1996. In 1994, Madison Square Garden hosted deep playoff runs by both the Rangers and the Knicks.

Both teams made the championship round, and each series went the full seven games. The Rangers won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1940, but the Knicks lost to the Houston Rockets. Mr. Trautwig was at the center of the action, including in Lower Manhattan, where a ticker-tape parade celebrated the Rangers. He emceed the team’s celebration outside City Hall, while New York’s mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, presented the players with keys to the city.

“In 1940, we know that the Rangers went to a small room at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto and held a private party,” Mr. Trautwig told viewers before the ceremony. “There was no ticker-tape parade, no parade at all. Very few people even knew when the Stanley Cup arrived in New York, but this is what a 54-year wait will do.”

Mike Richter, whose play as the Rangers’ goaltender helped propel the team to the title, said in an interview on Tuesday that Mr. Trautwig had covered the team through its ups and downs, and always as an affable storyteller. “I loved his voice,” he said. “I loved his ability to make it accessible to the fan.”

The timing of the Rangers championship could not have been better for Mr. Trautwig, who was also a mainstay of MSG’s Yankees broadcasts. Starting in 1996, the team won the World Series four times in five years, including a 2000 victory over the crosstown New York Mets.

He left MSG in 2021 when it did not renew his contract. At the time, he said that he did not hold a grudge against his longtime TV home.

His last Olympics broadcast for NBC was in 2016. At the time, Mr. Trautwig created a stir when he would not acknowledge that the grandparents of the star gymnast Simone Biles had become her adoptive parents. When a viewer criticized the description he used on air at the Games in Rio de Janeiro, he responded on Twitter: “They may be mom and dad but they are NOT her parents.” He later apologized.

Alan Trautwig was born on Feb. 26, 1956, in Oceanside, N.Y., to Otto and Martha Trautwig.

In addition to his son, Alex, he is survived by his wife, Cathleen Trautwig, whom he met as a student at �鶹ֱ�� in Garden City, N.Y.

Mr. Trautwig worked at the student radio station and graduated from Adelphi’s business school in 1978. He was a nonathlete member of the Adelphi Athletics Hall of Fame and was an adjunct professor at the university.

His success brought him other opportunities on both the big and small screens. He had a cameo in “Cool Runnings,” the 1993 Disney movie about the Jamaican bobsled team that competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics. He also appeared in an episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and in the 1996 sports comedy “Eddie,” which starred Whoopi Goldberg.

Sweeny Murti, a senior contributor for MLB Media, that a photograph of Mr. Trautwig interviewing Derek Jeter hangs on the press level at Yankee Stadium. The photo was reposted by the Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay.

“He was meant to be on the air,” Mr. Kay wrote. “Smooth. Unflappable.”