Jacks on WNAX radio WNAX, at 570 AM, is the official station of South Dakota State University sports. The announcers for the Jackrabbit flagship station have a 135 mile trip, one-way, for South Dakota State home games. WNAX reaches into parts of seven states and provides broad coverage in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. STEVE IMMING, SPORTS DIRECTOR – St. Louis native Steve Imming returns for his tenth year as “Voice of the Jackrabbits". He was selected South Dakota Sportscaster of the Year for 1998 by members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Imming became sports director at WNAX in July of 1992. He is a graduate of Creighton University with a degree in journalism. Imming has won the South Dakota Associated Press Broadcasters Sportscast of the Year award seven times. His prior radio experience includes Waynesville and Rolla, Missouri; Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Omaha, Nebraska. Following his undergraduate studies at Creighton, Imming spent four years with the U.S. Air Force, 1967-71, and served as Sports Director of the Armed Forces Thailand Network. He worked at Sodrac Park and several other large greyhound tracks across the country in the late 1970's and 80's. Imming was co-host of the Greyhound Race of Champions on ESPN in 1985 and on Sports Channel in 1986. Throughout the course of his professional broadcasting career, Imming has handled play-by-play for NCAA Division II college football and basketball, high school football, basketball and baseball, and minor league professional baseball. JERRY OSTER – Jerry Oster has been on the WNAX staff since 1976 and began doing color for Jackrabbit football in 1979, making him one of the senior media members in the North Central Conference. Oster heads an award-winning news department at WNAX. He has won a number of Associated Press news awards and in the summer of 1998 was presented the Tom Brokaw Award, presented by the South Dakota Broadcasters Association honoring excellence in broadasting. The station won top honors in the South Dakota AP Broadcasters Association news contest five of the past six years. Oster is past-president of the AP news directors in South Dakota. Oster attended the University of South Dakota-Springfield. Oster and his wife, Cheryl, have four children.
• JACKRABBIT MEDIA • Contact: Steve Imming, Spts Dir Radio Station: WNAX Address: 1609 East Hwy 50 Yankton, SD 57078 Telephone: (605) 668-1179 1-800-843-0089 Newspaper: Brookings Register Contact: Eric Hammond, Spts. Ed. Address: 312 5th Street Brookings, SD 57006 Telephone: (605) 692-6271 Local Radio: KBRK Contact: Dellas Cole, Spts. Dir. Address: Box 97 Brookings, SD 57006 Telephone: (605) 692-1430
Local Radio: KJJQ Contact: Scott Kwas, Sports Director Address: Box 790 Brookings, SD 57006 Telephone: (605) 692-9102
Television: KDLT Contact: Mark Ovenden, Spts. Dir. Address: 3600 South Westport Sioux Falls, SD 57116-0196 Telephone: (605) 361-5555
Newspaper: Sioux Falls Argus Leader Contact: Adam Thaler Address: Box 5034 Sioux Falls, SD 57117 Telephone: (605) 331-2323
Television: KSFY Contact: Erik Thorstenson, Spts. Dir. Address: 300 N. Dakota, Suite 100 Sioux Falls, SD 57102 Telephone: (605) 336-1300
Television: KELO Contact: Travis Fossing, Spts. Dir. Address: 501 South Phillips Sioux Falls, SD 57102 Telephone: (605) 336-1100
Newspaper: SDSU Collegian Contact: Sports Editor Address: USU 060 Brookings, SD 57007 Telephone: (605) 688-6164