Broadcaster Hour

Episode 57 - Joe Castiglione

Broadcaster Hour

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.

Episode 56 - Pat Hughes

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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.

Episode 55 - Dave Sims

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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.