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  • Episode 57 - Joe Castiglione

    Joe Castiglione is in his 38th season on Red Sox radio, the longest tenure of any Red Sox radio broadcaster and of any Boston broadcaster. Prior to coming to Boston, Castiglione called television games for Cleveland in 1979 and 1982 and for Milwaukee in 1981. The Ham- den, CT native has also announced television games for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and did college basketball on NESN for 6 years. During the offseason, Joe taught classes in broadcast journalism at Northeastern University for 29 years (1985-2013), at Franklin Pierce University for 15 years (1996-2010), and at Emerson College in 1996. Since 1990, he has also served as a Jimmy Fund staff member in fundraising. A graduate of both Colgate (undergraduate) and Syracuse Universities (graduate), Joe is the author of Broadcast Rites and Sites-I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox, which was published in 2004, and Can You Believe It, 30 Years Inside Red Sox Baseball, published in 2012. Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2014. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    42 min
  • Episode 56 - Pat Hughes

    Pat Hughes is in his 23rd season as the radio play-by-play

    voice of the Cubs. He joined Cubs radio broadcasts in 1996 after spending the
    previous 12 years teaming with Bob Uecker on the Milwaukee Brewers Radio
    Network. Hughes began his baseball play-by-play career in the minor leagues,
    calling action for the San Jose Missions (1978-1981) and the Columbus Clippers
    (1982). He worked as a play-by-play voice for Marquette University's basketball
    team from 1988-2004, including working with Al McGuire during the 1996-2000 seasons.
    Hughes' collegiate play-by-play career also includes stints with Northwestern
    University, San Jose State University, the University of Wisconsin and ESPN. He
    worked in Minnesota in 1983 as the TV voice of the Twins and as the hockey
    host/interviewer on North Stars telecasts. Hughes was named the Illinois
    Sportscaster of the Year in 1996, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
    He earned Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year Award honors three times
    (1990-1992). Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus
    @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    42 min
  • Episode 55 - Dave Sims

    Dave Sims is in his 16th season with the Seattle Mariners

    broadcast team. He has won back-to-back Washington Sportscaster of the Year
    awards from the National Sports Media Association. Sims, who has play-by-play
    duties on Mariners television broadcasts, is familiar to sports fans for
    calling MLB and college basketball games on ESPN, as well as NCAA Basketball
    and NFL play-by-play on Westwood One.

    He co-hosts “Basketball & Beyond with Coach K” for Sirius XM

    with Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski, is a correspondent for MLB Network
    and calls Big East college basketball on FS1. The two-time Emmy Award winner
    also won the American Football Foundation's Outstanding Sportscaster Award in
    2003 and the Big East Media Award in 2005. Sims began his career as a
    sportswriter for the New York Daily News prior to becoming a weekend sports
    anchor at WCBS-TV. In 1991, he joined ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for
    college basketball. From 1998-2014, he did NFL play-by-play, including Sunday
    Night and Monday Night Football, as well as the NCAA Men's Basketball
    Tournament, for Westwood One. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram:
    @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 54 - Drew Carter

    Drew

    Carter is in his first year as a full-time play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN.
    Carter previously worked as a sports reporter/anchor for Birmingham's CBS 42
    from August 2019-2021. He has also called Minor League Baseball with the Auburn
    Doubledays in 2018. Carter was the winner of the 2019 Jim Nantz Award by the
    Sportscasters Talent Agency of America, as the most outstanding college
    sportscaster in the nation. Carter is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University's
    S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. 
    Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus
    @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    57 min
  • Episode 53 - Pete Pranica

    Pete

    Pranica has been the television play-by-play voice of the Memphis Grizzlies
    since 2004. Prior to joining Memphis, he spent time filling in on Detroit
    Pistons radio broadcasts, and was the full-time radio voice for the Portland
    Trail Blazers. Pranica was the winner of the 2017 Tennessee State Sportscaster
    of the Year. Pranica is a 1986 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Follow
    the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and
    @CrooksPBP.

    50 min
  • Episode 52 - Brian Boesch

    Brian

    Boesch has been the play-by-play broadcaster for Michigan Wolverines men's
    basketball since 2019. Boesch also serves as the studio host for Michigan
    football and is the producer for the Michigan radio network with Learfield.
    Boesch also held broadcasting positions in Minor League Baseball with the
    Winston-Salem Dash, Frisco Roughriders, and Burlington Royals. Boesch is a 2011
    graduate of Ohio University. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram:
    @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 51 - Ian Nicholas

    Ian

    Nicholas made his ESPN debut as the play-by-play announcer for the ESPN
    KidsCast for the MLB Little League Classic on Sunday August 22, 2021. Nicholas
    recently graduated from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, and will be
    attending Syracuse University as a Broadcast and Digital Journalism major at
    the Newhouse School of Communications in the Fall of 2021. Former play-by-play
    commentator for New Canaan HS Football, Baseball, Basketball (Men's and
    Women's), Lacrosse (Men's and Women's), Soccer (Men's and Women's), Volleyball
    (Men's and Women's), and more. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram:
    @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    44 min
  • Episode 50 - Halfway to a Hundred

    50th

    Episode of Broadcaster Hour! Roger Hoover and Kyle Crooks team up for a
    free-flowing conversation touching on the first 50 episodes of Broadcaster
    Hour. They also preview their upcoming athletic years ahead at Florida and
    Alabama and what's ahead for the show. Follow the show on Twitter and
    Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    40 min
  • Episode 49 - Andy Demetra

    Andy Demetra became the “Voice of the Yellow Jackets” on the Georgia Tech Sports

    Network in August 2016. In addition to serving as the play-by-play broadcaster
    for football and men’s basketball on Tech’s statewide radio network and
    Sirius/XM, Demetra hosts Georgia Tech football and men’s basketball’s radio
    call-in and television shows. He also periodically serves as play-by-play
    announcer for Georgia Tech women’s basketball, baseball and softball telecasts,
    is the voice of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream’s home telecasts and was the TV
    play-by-play voice for selected Chicago Bulls road games in 2018-19. Outside of
    his radio and TV broadcasts, he is the author of “Inside The Chart,” a weekly
    feature column for RamblinWreck.com,
    which won a 2016 South Carolina Press Association Award for “Best Series of
    Sports Articles, All Divisions.” He is also the host of the “Toddcast,” Georgia
    Tech’s monthly podcast with director of athletics Todd Stansbury. Prior to his
    role with the Yellow Jackets, Demetra spent seven seasons as the Director of
    Broadcasting and play-by-play voice for the South Carolina Gamecocks, primarily
    covering men’s basketball and baseball. His television play-by-play credits
    include SEC Network, Pac-12 Network and Fox Sports South. A native of Oak
    Brook, Ill., Demetra (pronounced duh-MEH-truh) graduated summa cum laude from
    Syracuse University in 2003 with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism and
    Spanish literature. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour
    plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 48 - Brad Sham

    Brad Sham is preparing for his 43rd season as the radio "Voice of the Dallas

    Cowboys." Sham
    has been with the Cowboys since 1976, when he was hired to be their color
    analyst alongside play-by-play man Verne Lundquist. When Lundquist left for CBS
    in 1984, Sham became the lead play-by-play man, a position he has held ever
    since (save for three seasons in the mid-1990s). During his absence from the
    Cowboys, Sham called Texas Rangers games on the radio with Eric Nadel between
    1995 and 1997.  Sham has done NFL
    play-by-play for the NFL on Westwood One,
    the NFL on Fox, TNT Sunday Night Football, and the NFL
    on CBS for one game in 2004. He has also worked games for NFL Europe and
    the Arena Football League's Dallas Desperados. Sham has extensive experience
    broadcasting collegiate sports, having done play-by-play for NCAA athletics,
    most notably the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and college
    football. He spent over a decade as the radio voice of the Texas Longhorns'
    football and basketball teams (mostly in the 1980s), which also aired on
    flagship KRLD and on the Mutual Southwest Radio Network. Sham has been in the
    booth for 26 Cotton Bowl Classics, calling play-by-play for 25 games and
    serving as the analyst for one. He has also served as a play-by-play
    broadcaster for the Big 12 Network basketball Saturdays, as well as for select
    ESPN Network Big 12 games.

    1 hr 1 min

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