Entercom Announces Broadcast Team for Pittsburgh Pirates

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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KDKA-FM will run the Pirates this season.

Entercom announces the new broadcast team for pregame and postgame coverage of the Pittsburgh Pirates on KDKA-FM (93.7 The Fan), the flagship station for the team. Dan Zangrilli will return to host the station's pregame and postgame broadcasts, a role he previously held from 2012 to 2016. Jack Zduriencik returns for his fourth season as an analyst. Station veteran Kraig Riley, who has been with 93.7 The Fan since 2010 as a producer, will join the broadcast team for the first time alongside Zangrilli and Zduriencik.

Zduriencik joined the station in 2016 after serving as General Manager of the Seattle Mariners for eight years. He was also part of the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as Scouting Director from 1991-1993.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I thought Zangrilli had taken a gig with WVU. Did he lose that?

Also I think he has a day job in the insurance business.

 

[chillybilly]

I thought Zangrilli had taken a gig with WVU. Did he lose that?

Also I think he has a day job in the insurance business.

Sadly for Mountaineer fans, Zangrilli will probably retain his WVU duties despite a) living in PA and b) having no previous ties to WVU.

There's no real conflict with Pirates broadcasts except in September and most of the WVU segments can be taped if necessary.

Like so many other schools, Learfield/IMG waved money under the noses of short-sighted ADs who droned on and on about the tradition of college football while jettisoning longtime pregame/postgame hosts and segments along with flagship stations. They also droned on about jobs for locals but WVU's arrangement, at least, puts the lie to that.

Now every school's broadcast sounds like every other school's broadcast and all are littered with drop-in ads with sponsorships applied to the most trivial items like first downs and changes of possession.

 

[DOGDOG]

Another example of radio as it circles the drain as caused not by talent or the audience but by stupid ownership and management!

 

[FreddyE1977]

Sadly for Mountaineer fans, Zangrilli will probably retain his WVU duties despite a) living in PA and b) having no previous ties to WVU.

Bill Hillgrove, the long-time Voice of the Pitt Panthers, is a Duquesne grad. My mom was in classes with him there.

If schools are only able to hire alums that is really going to truncate the talent pool.

 

[CTListener]

Bill Hillgrove, the long-time Voice of the Pitt Panthers, is a Duquesne grad. My mom was in classes with him there.

If schools are only able to hire alums that is really going to truncate the talent pool.

It would certainly limit the sportscasting earning potential of graduates of small schools with excellent communications programs but only lower-division sports. And some major sports powers have no broadcasting major available at all -- the talent search there would be grim, indeed.

 

[TheBigA]

Now every school's broadcast sounds like every other school's broadcast and all are littered with drop-in ads with sponsorships applied to the most trivial items like first downs and changes of possession.

All of which is approved by the NCAA, and the money from college sports broadcast rights goes to those schools.