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Jody McDonald
Jody McDonald, a.k.a. Jody Mac, is a sports talk show host on 610 WTEL (AM), WTEL/94.1WIP-FM weekdays 11pm to 2am and weekend host on WFAN 660 AM NY. He is the son of former Major League Baseball executive Joe McDonald (baseball executive), Joe McDonald. Career Jody began his career with WFAN in 1987, when it launched. He would join WIP, a Philadelphia sports radio station in 1990, where he hosted a show called Mac and Mac with Glen Macnow. He returned to WFAN in 1999 hosting through 2004. Jody Mac was also the host of the Philadelphia Eagles pre-game show on the Eagles radio network (WIP-FM, WYSP) from 2001-2004. He next worked afternoon drive, joining Sports Talk 950, (later to become 950 ESPN radio). His tenure there lasted from 2005 to September, 4th 2009. He also spent a few years on nationally aired, Sirius XM Radio, Sirius XM's NBA and MLB talk channels. Sometime in 2010 1050 ESPN Radio NY had a regular mid day show with Brandon Tierney & Jody McDonald that ran until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTEL (AM)
WTEL (610 kHz) — branded "Philadelphia's BIN 610" — is a commercial all-news AM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group, the station is currently operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. as part of their Philadelphia cluster under a long-term local marketing agreement. The station services the Greater Philadelphia and Delaware Valley area as the market affiliate of the Black Information Network. The WTEL studios are located in the nearby suburb of Bala Cynwyd, while the transmitter site is in Bellmawr, New Jersey. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WTEL programming is simulcast over the second HD Radio digital subchannel of WDAS-FM, and is available online via iHeartRadio. WTEL is a primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System in eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. History WIP On December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in charge of radio at the time, adopted a regulation formally establishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIP-FM
WIP-FM (94.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and broadcasts a sports radio format. The WIP-FM offices and studios are co-located within Audacy's corporate headquarters in Center City, Philadelphia, and the broadcast tower used by the station is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia at (). WIP-FM is the flagship station for the Philadelphia Eagles Football Network and the MLB Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network. The station has local hosts days and evenings, with programming from CBS Sports Radio heard overnight. WIP-FM broadcasts using HD Radio. Its HD2 subchannel is a simulcast of co-owned 1060 KYW's all-news format. The HD3 channel carries a classic rock format that had been once heard on 94.1 when it was WYSP. The HD4 channel is known as "Eagles 24/7," with continuous programming about the football team. History Beginning as WIBG-FM In 1948, the station signed on as WIBG-FM. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFAN
WFAN (660 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the New York metropolitan area while its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada. WFAN's studios are located in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WFAN is simulcast over WFAN-FM (101.9 FM), and is available online via Audacy. Originally at , WFAN was launched on July 1, 1987, as the world’s first radio station to adopt the sports radio format around-the-clock. The format moved to this frequency on October 7, 1988, taking over a facility which signed on in 1922 as WEAF under the auspices of Western Electric. Purchased by RCA in 1926, it became the flagship of the NBC Radio Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe McDonald (baseball Executive)
Joseph Anthony McDonald (born July 5, 1929) is a former front office executive in American Major League Baseball. McDonald served as general manager of three MLB clubs between 1975 and 1992, and had a long career in the game as an administrator and a scout. Born in Staten Island, New York City, he is a 1951 graduate of Fordham University. Long career with New York Mets He played prominent roles in the New York Mets' organization during his tenure there between 1962 and 1980. McDonald was the Mets' administrative secretary, minor league clubs, where he dealt with farm system operations in 1965– 66. In 1967, he was the director of scouting. In 1968, he moved up and became director of minor league operations, and he stayed in that position until 1971. In 1972, he served as the Mets' director of player development operations. In 1973, he again became director of minor league operations, and he stayed in that position until October 1974, when he was promoted to general manager. He ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets, when a group led by Bert Bell secured the rights to an NFL franchise in Philadelphia. Since their formation, the Eagles have appeared in the playoffs 28 times, won 15 division titles (11 in the NFC East), appeared in four pre- merger NFL Championship Games, winning three of them ( 1948, 1949, and 1960), and appeared in three Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl LII at the end of the 2017 season. Thirteen individuals affiliated with the Eagles have been inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including Bell, Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Brian Dawkins, Reggie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
950 ESPN
WPEN (97.5 MHz, "97.5 The Fanatic") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Burlington, New Jersey, in the Philadelphia radio market. The station is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC and broadcasts a sports radio format. WPEN is the flagship station for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers Radio Network and the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers Radio Network. It also carries Temple University football games, Philadelphia Union MLS games and Philadelphia Soul Arena Football League games. WPEN has local hosts days and evenings while carrying the nationally syndicated ESPN Radio network nights and some weekend hours. It is also affiliated with the Fox Sports Radio network. Studios are located in Bala Cynwyd and the station's broadcast tower is located in Wyndmoor at (). WPEN broadcasts using HD Radio. Its HD2 subchannel carries classical music. Its HD3 channel carries spanish tropical music known as "RITMO FM" on translators W253DG 98.5 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirius XM Radio
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, merging them into SiriusXM Radio. The company also has a 70% equity interest in Sirius XM Canada, an Subsidiary, affiliate company that provides Sirius and XM service in Canada. On May 21, 2013, Sirius XM Holdings, Inc. was incorporated, and in January 2020, Sirius XM reorganized their corporate structure, which made Sirius XM Radio Inc. a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings, Inc. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. on July 29, 2008, 17 months after the companies first proposed it. The merger created a company with 18.5 million subscribers, and the deal was valued at US$3.3 billion, not including de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1050 ESPN Radio
WEPN (1050 kHz) is an all-sports AM radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned-and-operated by Good Karma Brands and its transmitter site is located in North Bergen, New Jersey. The 1050 AM facility in New York signed on in 1922 as WHN. For the majority of its existence under these call letters, as well as during its 14-year stint as WMGM, the station broadcast several different music-based formats, finally assuming a country music format in 1973. In 1987, WHN dropped its country format to become the first radio station dedicated entirely to sports programming, changing its call letters to WFAN. A series of transactions in the late 1980s resulted in WFAN's format and call letters moving in October 1988 to 660 AM (on which WFAN has continued to broadcast since), with the brokered programming format and call letters of The Forward-owned WEVD (previously on 97.9 FM) being moved to 1050 AM in February 1989. In 2001, The Walt Disney Company took control of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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