2011-12 Memphis Basketball LISTEN TO ALL TIGER BASKETBALL ACTION ON WREC 600 AM
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In 2006, the University of Memphis began a new broadcasting agreement with Clear Channel Radio, making WREC 600AM the flagship station for all Tigers football and men’s basketball games through the 2011-12 season. WREC is in its 88th year covering the Mid-South region as the station Memphis turns to for news. The new flagship allows Tigers games to be broadcast in HD Digital. Existing radio network affiliate agreements will allow for broadcasts to reach from near Nashville to the east, Jonesboro to the north, Little Rock to the west, and Oxford to the south. Dave Woloshin remains as play-by-play commentator for his 15th season. Woloshin, a well-known sports figure in Memphis, is in his 26th year of being associated with the Tigers broadcast team. He began with Tigers television broadcasts in 1986, and for the last 14 years, has handled the radio broadcast for Tigers football and basketball. Woloshin came to Memphis as the sports anchor for WHBQ-TV 13 in 1981. He has handled play-by-play for the Memphis RiverKings, the Memphis Americans, Storm and Rogues soccer teams, has worked with ESPN and SportsChannel America and for numerous prep football games of the week. Woloshin is married to the former Gayle Stein of Memphis. The couple has four children: Nathan (19), Jacob (18), Brett (23) and Brendan (19). Matt Dillon returns as the color analyst for the eighth-straight season. Although he is in only his eighth season on the radio, Dillon has been around Tigers athletics since the early 1970s. Dillon, who is in his 38th year working in the sports industry, also serves as the co-host of the Memphis pregame and postgame shows for football and basketball games on WREC. The 1973 University of Memphis graduate began his long broadcast association with Tigers sports when he did play-by-play for WKNO-TV from 19732001. In the 1980s, Dillon also served as analyst on WMC and handled play-by-play duties on WPTY-TV for road contests. From 1995-2000, Dillon served in several capacities in broadcasting Tigers football and basketball, including hosting coaches shows in the late 1990s. Dillon and his wife, Marni, reside in Germantown.
Dave Woloshin Play-By-Play
Matt Dillon Analyst/ Pre-Post Game Host
Forrest Goodman Studio Game Host
Jeff Brightwell Broadcast Captain
Native Memphian Forrest Goodman is in his 13th season as the pre-game and post-game host for Memphis football and basketball. Goodman, who is the assistant program director for NewsRadio 600 WREC, also serves as the host of both the Larry Porter and Josh Pastner radio call-in shows. Prior to joining the Tigers broadcast team in 1999, Goodman was the play-by-play voice of all sports for Delta State University, and also spent 10 years handling high school football play-by-play. Goodman and his wife, Michelle, have a daughter, Abigail, and reside in Bartlett. Jeff Brightwell, the “Voice of Tigers baseball and women’s basketball,” serves as the broadcast team captain handling the majority of the production and engineering duties. A 1996 graduate of the University of Memphis, Brightwell returned to the Bluff City in 2003 after
spending six years in Missouri. Prior to his return to Memphis, Brightwell performed play-by-play duties for Southeast Missouri State, Central Methodist College, Truman State and Moberly Community College. Before taking over play-by-play for Memphis women’s basketball and baseball, Brightwell did play-by-play for the Memphis RiverKings. For the last eight years, the native Memphian has broadcast both home and away contests for Tigers baseball and women’s basketball on WUMR-FM. He also hosts a weekly Tigers Update webcast that is streamed through All-Access at www.gotigersgo.com, the athletics department website. Brightwell was named the College Baseball Foundation’s National Broadcaster of the Month in April 2005 and was honored as the Sportscaster of the Year in 2002 by the Missouri Broadcasters Association. He has also served as the public address announcer for the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds.
THE JOSH PASTNER TV SHOW ON FOX 13 IN 2011-12 The Josh Pastner Television Show returns for a second-consecutive year to Fox 13 in 2011-12. Fox 13 airs the show each Sunday night at 10 p.m. (CT), with the first regular season broadcast slated for Dec. 4. The weekly update on Tigers hoops continues throughout the season. Dave Woloshin, the Tigers’ radio play-byplay announcer, and Fox 13’s own Matt Stark are the show’s co-hosts. Each Sunday, Coach Pastner joins Woloshin and Stark to break down the previous week’s highlights, while looking ahead to future opponents on the Tigers’ schedule. The show also contains feature segments on Tiger players throughout the year.
Dave Woloshin (left) and Matt Dillon (right) call the action of Memphis basketball to Tiger Nation from courtside.
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