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Forrest Goodman Studio Game Host
Jeff Brightwell Broadcast Captain
Tiger football and basketball, including hosting coaches shows in the late 1990s. Dillon and his wife, Marni, reside in Germantown. Native Memphian Forrest Goodman is in his 10th season as the pregame and postgame 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 Tommy West and John Calipari radio call-in shows. Prior to joining the Tiger 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 Tiger 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 came to Memphis in 2003 after spending six years in Missouri. He has done play-by-play for Southeast Missouri State, Central Methodist College, Truman State, Moberly Community College and the Memphis RiverKings. For the last five years, the native Memphian has broadcast both home and away contests for Memphis baseball and women’s basketball on WUMR-FM (91.7). 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.
MEMPHIS BASKETBALL WITH JOhn Calipari TV SHOW On WPTY-ABC 24 All of the replay excitement of Tiger basketball can be seen each Sunday night on ABC24/WPTY in Memphis. Dave Woloshin, the Tigers’ radio play-by-play announcer, serves as host of the weekly Memphis Basketball With John Calipari television show. The show airs on WPTY-TV at 10:35 p.m. on Sundays. Each Sunday, Woloshin and Calipari break down the previous week’s highlights in-depth, while looking ahead to future opponents on the Tigers’ schedule. The show also contains feature segments about various Tiger players throughout the year. Memphis Basketball With John Calipari television show has been aired by WPTY-TV/ WLMT-TV for more than 10 years. Over the past 17 years, numerous Tiger football and basketball games have been carried by WLMT-TV.
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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 Tiger football and men’s basketball games through the 2010-11 season. WREC is in its 85th year covering the Mid-South region as the station Memphis turns to for news. The new flagship allows Tiger 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 12th season. Woloshin, a well-known sports figure in Memphis, is in his 23rd year of being associated with the Tiger broadcast team. He began with Tiger television broadcasts in 1986, and for the last 11 years, has handled the radio broadcast for Tiger football and basketball. Woloshin came to Memphis as the sports anchor for WHBQ-TV 13 in 1981. He has handled playby-play for the Memphis RiverKings and the Memphis Americans, Storm and Rogues soccer teams. Woloshin has worked with ESPN and SportsChannel America and has called numerous prep football games of the week. Woloshin is married to the former Gayle Stein of Memphis. The couple has four children: Nathan (16), Jacob (15), Brett (19) and Brendan (16). Matt Dillon returns for his fifth-straight season as the color analyst for the Tigers’ radio broadcast. Although he is in only his fifth season on the radio, Dillon has been around Tiger athletics since the early 1970s. Dillon, who is in his 35th year working in the sports industry, also serves as the co-host of the Memphis pregame and postgame shows for basketball and football games. The 1973 University of Memphis graduate began his long broadcast association with Tiger sports when he did play-by-play for WKNO-TV from 1973-2001. In the 1980s, the Benton, Ky., native 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
Dave Woloshin (left) and Matt Dillon (right) call the action of Memphis basketball to Tiger Nation from courtside.
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