Twenty-three years ago, Brendan Burke decided he wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

He was 9 years old and he was sitting between John Sterling and Michael Kay, then the Yankees’ radio team, as they broadcast a game at Fenway Park. His father, Don, was a sportswriter who covered the Yankees at the time and took his son with him to the game.

Burke immediately fell in love.

“I listened to them,” he said. “I found out from my dad that their job was to talk about sports … and they got paid for it.

“In that moment, that was when I knew what I wanted.”

Now, he’ll be the one being paid to talk about sports. MSG Network announced Thursday that Burke is succeeding Howie Rose as the lead TV play-by-play voice for Islanders games alongside analyst Butch Goring.

It’s a destination which took Burke 10 years to arrive at, starting from his hometown of Fair Lawn, N.J., to Ithaca and Batavia, N.Y., to Wheeling, W.Va., to Lakewood, N.J., to Peoria, Ill., and finally to Utica, N.Y., before realizing his dream of working in the NHL and the New York City market.

And to do so for an organization that has had only the voices of Rose and Jiggs McDonald gracing its microphone since the 1981-82 season makes it even more special.

“The fact they have had just two guys for 35 years, it’s just incredible to think about that,” Burke said. “Trust me, I know the bar is set really high. That’s New York City for you, and specifically with the Islanders with Howie because of how good he is.

“It’s not lost on me how big of a seat I’m going to be sitting in come opening night.”

It’s a seat Burke, whose father now works for The Post, is prepared for.

Not only has he covered the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins and most recently the AHL’s Utica Comets, Vancouver’s top farm team, he played hockey from a young age. It’s given him a unique viewpoint in broadcasting one of the more challenging sports in the business.

“When I finally got to broadcast hockey, it just felt right,” he said. “I was never the biggest or best player, but I saw the ice well and that’s a good skill to have to read plays as a broadcaster. I tend to not get too far behind a play because I can read where it’s going.”

Right now, he’s heading behind the microphone at the Garden on Oct. 13 for the Islanders’ regular-season opener against the Rangers.

In other words, right where Burke has always wanted to be.