- Don Imus
John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. (born March 11, 1940) is a controversial American humorist, writer, radio and television talk show host in the mold of a shock jock. His "drive time" weekday morning radio show, "Imus in the Morning" was aired over WNBC and WFAN in New York from 1971 to 1977 (when he was fired) and again from 1979 until it was canceled on April 12 2007, in response to comments he made on air.
- Mike Francesa
Michael Patrick Francesa, Jr. (born March 20, 1954) is an American radio talk show host and television commentator. He is primarily known for co-hosting the popular "Mike and the Mad Dog" show on WFAN in New York City, which he has done since September 5, 1989 with Chris "Mad Dog" Russo. Francesa is generally regarded as quite knowledgable about sports, but is extremely opinionated, which makes for a provocative show.
- Ed Coleman
Ed Coleman is a radio reporter/host for the New York Mets on WFAN. In the early 1990's he co-hosted WFAN's midday show with Dave Sims. The show was nicknamed the "Coleman and the Soul Man". When the show was canceled he was reassigned as WFAN's New York Mets beat reporter.
- John Sterling
John Sterling (born Harold Moskowitz on is an American sportscaster and the radio play-by-play announcer of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. He has announced Yankees games since 1989, calling 162 games a year, plus pre-season and post-season, without missing one. His Yankee broadcasts have been carried on the strong-signalled WABC and, since 2002, WCBS, …
- Suzyn Waldman
Suzyn Waldman (born in Newton, MA) is an American sports broadcaster. Starting with the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling on radio broadcasts for WCBS-AM in New York City. She is a graduate of Simmons College with a degree in Economics. She is famous for various "pioneering" feats in regards to female sports broadcasters.
- Chris Russo
Christopher M. Russo (born October 18, 1959), known as the "Mad Dog," is an American sports radio personality. He is best known as the co-host of the widely popular "Mike and the Mad Dog" sports radio show with Mike Francesa, which is broadcast on WFAN in New York City and simulcast on the YES Network.
- Joe Benigno
Joseph Benigno (born September 26, 1953) is an American sports radio personality. He co-hosts (with Evan Roberts) the 10am-1pm weekday timeslot on WFAN in New York City. Prior to joining WFAN, Benigno was a frequent caller to the station, known on-air as "Joe from Saddle River." He would get his first taste of radio experience in 1994, when he guest-hosted a show on WFAN as a result of winning a contest held by the station.
- Steve Somers
Steve Somers , a.k.a., "The Schmoozer", is truly a "FAN original", having been an on air fixture on WFAN since the station debuted on July 1st 1987. Steve's path to sports talk radio WFAN began in the bay area where he was born. Even before graduating high school, Steve was working at KYA radio in San Francisco delivering on air high school sports reports.
- Chris Carlin
Better known as the "Continent," Chris Carlin is the sportscaster for the Boomer & Carton Morning Show. In addition, Chris is the host of the New York Giants' Pre and Post game coverage on WFAN. Chris has called Giants pre-season games for the FAN and is also the play by play voice of Rutgers University Football. Chris has appeared several times on ESPN2, as well as CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, CSTV and the YES Network.
- Evan Roberts
Evan Roberts (born July 11, 1983) is an American sports radio personality. He currently hosts the midday (10am-1pm) show with Joe Benigno on WFAN. Roberts grew up in Cedarhurst, New York and graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001. After graduating from high school he worked for XM Satellite Radio in Washington, D.C. for 2 years. (He was the first known person to work exclusively for XM Radio and then work for its competitor Sirius Satellite Radio.) In 2003 and 2004, …
- Kevin Burkhardt
Kevin Burkhardt is a reporter for SNY's coverage of the Mets and is a Jets reporter for WFAN, where he is also a host. Kevin is a fan of the Eagles, Mets, NY Rangers and 76ers. He is married and resides on the Jersey Shore. Kevin is part of the successful SNY crew which includes Gary Cohen and former Mets Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez.
- Howie Rose
Howard Rose (born 1954) is an American sportscaster with the New York Mets and the New York Islanders for WFAN and Fox Sports New York. Rose grew up a Mets fan, and graduated from Queens College. He also attended Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens. He is known for his signature phrase of "Put it in the books!" after a Mets victory. He worked the television booth until the retirement of long-time Mets radio voice Bob Murphy.
- Phil Mushnick
Phil Mushnick is a sportswriter who writes a sports media column for the "New York Post". Mushnick's articles criticize the world of sports as portrayed in the media. Frequently criticized subjects include sexuality/obscenity in sports broadcasting, steroid abuse in professional wrestling, and the general lack of moral behavior permeating the world of sports.
- Richard Neer
Born in Syracuse, New York, Richard graduated from Adelphi University in 1970 and immediately began a career in broadcasting. After stints at Long Island's WLIR, rocker WNEW-FM and its sister station WNEW-AM, Richard became a member of the WFAN team in 1988. In 2001, Richard became an author with the release of his insightful book, "FM - Rise and Fall of Rock Radio". Best On-Air Experience: Helping a kid on a Connecticut Little League team get his World Series jersey.
- Steve Levy
Steve Levy (born March 12, 1965), is currently a journalist for ESPN. Before working for ESPN, he worked in New York for WFAN. At ESPN, he usually works on "SportsCenter", and he covered NHL regular season and playoff games before the network lost the rights to televise the league's games. Levy's NHL broadcasting career is very significant. His nickname is "Mr. Overtime", as he has called the three longest televised games in NHL history, …
- Mike Breen
Mike Breen(born June 26 1965) is a play-by-play commentator for the "NBA on ABC". He also works NBA games for ESPN, and was formerly a play-by-play announcers for New York Giants preseason games, as well as for regular season NFL games on both FOX and NBC. Breen, a 1983 graduate of Fordham University, is currently in his 14th season as an NBA broadcaster, with some of those 14 taking place while Breen worked for NBC up until 2002, …
- Mel Karmazin
Mel Karmazin is Chief Executive Officer of SIRIUS XM Radio, America's satellite radio company delivering the "The Best Radio on Radio" to more than 18.5 million subscribers, including 100% commercial free music, and premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic and weather. Karmazin oversees all aspects of the company's operations from its New York City corporate headquarters. Previously, he was President and COO of Viacom from May 2000 until June 2004.
- Jerry Recco
Jerry Recco has been with WFAN since 1997 and has been heard regularly handling the 20/20 updates in the overnight and on weekends. Beginning with the 2004 football season, Jerry has added the role of pre and post game host for Giants football coverage. In addition, Jerry also covers the New Jersey Nets for WFAN. Jerry begain his career at WFAN first as an intern and then moved up to producer and board operator, before taking over as the overnight anchor.
- Matt Loughlin
Matt Loughlin is an American sportscaster, and is the current radio play-by-play voice of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League on WFAN, where he is partnered with former Devil Tom Chorske. Loughlin previously worked as a pre-game and intermission host on Devils' telecasts on Fox Sports Net New York, where he was often paired with Stan Fischler for a popular feature called "Matt and the Maven".
- Joey Reynolds
Joey Reynolds is the pseudonym of Joey Pinto, host of the U.S. radio program "The Joey Reynolds Show" via the WOR Radio Network. Reynolds' broadcasting career began at radio station WKWK in Wheeling, West Virginia and continued at several venerable stations, including WKBW in Buffalo, New York, WHTZ and WNBC in New York City, KQV in Pittsburgh, KMPC and KRTH in Los Angeles, WDRC in Hartford, WIXY in Cleveland, and WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia.
- Scott Ferrall
Scott Ferrall is a sports talk radio host who currently broadcasts for Sirius Satellite Radio on Howard 101. Ferrall is easily recognizable by his crackling, raspy voice and his fast, sometimes nonsensical style. Ferrall's career began as a standard sports news reader on all-news KQV radio in his home town of Pittsburgh. When he left KQV, he drifted to Florida and found part-time radio work in the Tampa area.
- John Minko
John Minko is a "20/20 sports anchors" on radio station WFAN in New York and has worked there since its inception in 1987. Nicknamed "Coach" by his coworkers, Minko provides listeners with up-to-the-minute sports news, Sundays through Thursdays between the hours of 12pm and 6pm (Monday-Thursday) and 6am and 12pm (Sunday). He has also, at times, been called the "Dean of Updates", a moniker in recognition of his seniority.
- Pete Franklin
Pete Franklin (1928 - November 23, 2004), nicknamed "The King", was an American sports talk radio host who worked in San Francisco, Cleveland and New York. The zenith of Franklin's career came when he hosted "Sportsline" on 50,000-watt Cleveland AM station WWWE ("3WE") 1100-AM from 1972 to 1987. Arguably the most popular host on the mainly-MOR oriented station, Franklin was popular based on his gruff demeanor and his rude banter toward callers.
- Dave Sims
Dave Sims (born February 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster, and the television voice of the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Sims grew up in Philadelphia and attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he played catcher and majored in mass communications. He began his career as a sportswriter for the "New York Daily News".
- Tony Siragusa
Anthony Siragusa (born May 14, 1967 in Kenilworth, New Jersey) is a former American football defensive tackle who spent twelve seasons in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens. His nickname is Goose, which is derived from the pronunciation of his last name. He attended the University of Pittsburgh. At the end of his football career, he was 6'3" and 340 lbs.
- John Kincade
John Kincade is a sports talk show host based in Atlanta, Georgia for WCNN 680 "The Fan". John has co-hosted the afternoon drive show "Buck and Kincade" since September of 2000. Kincade previously worked as a sports talk show host on 790 The Zone in Atlanta and was a contributor to the popular WIP Morning Show in Philadelphia with Angelo Cataldi in Philadelphia from 1992-1994. John is also the host of "The John Kincade Show" on ESPN Radio, …
- Andy Pollin
Andy Pollin is an American radio personality. He is the sports director of WTEM since 1992. He is currently the co-host of "The Sports Reporters" with Steve Czaban. He acted as sidekick on "The Tony Kornheiser Show" between 1992 and 2006. He also co-hosted "GameDay" with Mel Kiper, Jr. on ESPN Radio between 1998 and 2004. Before his tenure on WTEM, he had served as reporter for WFAN in New York City between 1987 and 1992, …
- Gabe Pressman
Gabe Pressman (born February 14, 1924) is the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV. Pressman has been a journalist in the New York City area for over 60 years. He is considered one of the pioneers of United States television news. Pressman currently hosts "Gabe Pressman's News Forum", which airs on Sunday mornings at 6:30 AM and does mainly political commentary.
- Joe Beninati
Joe Beninati is the television play-by-play announcer for the Washington Capitals. Along with color analyst Craig Laughlin he provides Capitals game coverage for CSN. He has also done freelance announcing for ESPN, Westwood One, WFAN and as a prominent hockey voice on Versus (formerly OLN), where he calls one of the NHL's Conference Finals series each year (usually the one ranked #2 as far as ratings and market sizes).
- Jane Dornacker
Jane Dornacker (October 1, 1947 - October 22, 1986) was an American rock musician, actress, and comedian turned traffic reporter for WNBC 66 AM (which became WFAN 66 in 1987). She was married to Bob Knickerbocker.
- Bruce Murray
Bruce Murray is currently a co-host of "The Mike and Murray Show" on Sirius Radio (he began in the summer of 2006). Prior to this show, he spent ten years at the Sporting News Radio, including hosting the "Murray in the Morning Show". Prior to that, he worked on the launch of WFAN as well as at ESPN Radio and at Washington, DC's sports radio station WTEM.
- Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root (b.July 20, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a business mogul, television celebrity, TV producer, best-selling author, professional sports handicapper, and prospective Libertarian Party presidential candidate based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Bill Crowley
Bill Crowley is an American radio announcer. Crowley has been a news writer and announcer for radio stations in New York City, including WINS, WFAN and WCBS-AM. He is currently the afternoon and evening news announcer for Air America Radio. He also occasionally provides voice parts for comedy bits on "The Randi Rhodes Show".
- Samantha Ryan
Samantha (Sam) Ryan is an American sportscaster based in New York City where she works as a sports anchor and reporter for WCBS-TV and CBS Sports. In 2004, she started working on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball". In 2005, she served as the reporter for "Monday Night Football" while Michele Tafoya was on maternity leave. In June 2006, she was hired by CBS Sports and WCBS-TV in New York. An alumnus of the NYIT (Old Westbury, NY), …
- Kevin Scholla
Kevin Scholla is a news and sports anchor for KYW Newsradio. He's been a voice in New Jersey broadcasting for more than a decade. ... New Jersey 101.5 and the Millennium News Network was next on the itinerary. As a lead reporter for the group's 13 stations, Kevin's creative writing and delivery style were heard all across the Garden State for years. Kevin has also worked as the play-by-play voice for Centenary College Basketball.
- Jesse Elin Browne
Jesse Elin Browne (born August 15, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American voice actress. She was hired in 1977 by WWOR-TV, then owned by RKO General. Browne started as a production assistant at NBC Radio Network's flagship "Monitor" radio show from 1973 until the show's cancellation in 1975. In 1976 Browne was hired by ABC Radio news network as their first female Associate Director (AD)for their four radio new networks.
- Brian Smith
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- Mike
From the studios of WFAN in NY City, this is Mike Francesa on Myspace. I'm a graduate of St. Johns University in New York. I have been working in the field of sports broadcasting all my life, but my real love is horse racing. I've been working at WFAN since 1989 with my co-host Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo on the Mike and the Mad Dog show. You can also check me out on NBC sunday nights, my show is called Mike'd Up.