Frank Frangie is an American
sports announcer who works as an afternoon drive
talk show
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host on
1010XL/
92.5 FM radio stations in
Jacksonville, FL. He is the radio
play-by-play voice of the
Jacksonville Jaguars NFL
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football
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team. He also is one of the founders and the president and CEO of GridironNow.com, a
website
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specializing in the coverage of
SEC Football.
Frank Frangie was a cohost on WQIK AM 1320 with Scott Richards. Source; Scott Richards
Background/Early media career
Frangie is originally from Jacksonville, attended
Englewood High School and later the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
, where he earned a degree in Journalism and Communications in 1980. He began his sports media career as a part-time sports writer for the
Florida Times-Union/
Jacksonville Journal
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upon graduation from college and became a full-time sports writer with the paper in 1985. He was a
sports writer
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, covering high schools, then major colleges, then finally the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
. He also wrote columns for the afternoon editions of the paper. He remained with the paper until March, 1993.
Broadcast career
In 1988, in addition to his work as a sports writer, he began a career as a radio
talk show
A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show ...
host. He hosted a show on AM 1320 (
WQIK-AM, later becoming
WJGR) for one year, then moved to 930 AM (
WCRJ, which became WNZS and ultimately
WFXJ) and joined longtime host Jay Solomon on his show there from 1989 until 1993, when he resigned from the
Florida Times-Union to become full-time host of his own show.
He stayed with 930 AM until July, 2002, when he moved to AM1460 (
WZNZ) working with
Brady Ackerman
Brady Ackerman is an American sports commentator in Jacksonville, Florida. He works as an afternoon talk show host 3–7pm on 1010XL,WJXL radio. He also works on the Gators Sports Network for Florida football. He serves as the co-host on the pr ...
. He remained there until April, 2007, when he helped launch
1010XL/92.5 FM which became Jacksonville’s first all-sports radio station to air locally originated programming from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. weekdays. He remains the afternoon drive host on
1010XL/92.5 FM, which is generally considered
Jacksonville’s most successful
sports radio
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station ever. That position was ensured when the station became the
flagship station
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of the NFL’s
Jacksonville Jaguars in spring of 2014.
Team/Network affiliations
After moving into a
broadcast career on a full-time basis in 1993, he became a
pre-game host on the multi-station Gator radio network from 1996 through 1998. That job included hosting
pre-game show
A pre-game, pregame, or pre-match show is a television or radio presentation that occurs immediately before the live broadcast of a major sporting event. They typically feature previews and analysis relating to upcoming games (either a larger fixt ...
s for all
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
football games during that stretch, plus doing
play-by-play
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and color commentary on Gator
baseball
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, women’s
basketball
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and other sports.
He went on to host numerous college football and basketball programs on
Fox Sports Florida
Bally Sports Florida is an American regional sports network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local sports coverage in the state of Florida, with a focus on professional sport ...
,
Sun Sports,
Comcast Sports Southeast
Comcast Sports Southeast and Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) was an American regional sports network for the Southern United States that was operated as a joint venture between cable television providers Comcast and Charter Communications. In contr ...
and other regional sports networks around the country from 2000 through 2010.
In 2007, he was named the primary radio
play-by-play
In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...
voice of the Touchdown Radio Network, a national network that traveled to and broadcast a prominent national
college football
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Unlike most ...
game of the week. He worked alongside color analyst
Gino Torretta
Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons. He played college football at the University of Miami, won the Heisman Trophy in 1992, and w ...
, the 1992
Heisman Trophy
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winner and the founder of Touchdown Radio.
He worked as the primary Touchdown Radio
play-by-play
In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...
voice until May, 2014, when he was named the radio
play-by-play
In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...
voice of the
Jacksonville Jaguars.
Gridironnow.com
In addition to his duties as the afternoon drive host on
1010XL/92.5 FM and as the voice of the Jaguars, Frangie combined with Ben Balke, President of Etchasoft, Inc. and Seven Bridges Radio – the ownership entity of
1010XL/92.5 FM – to launch GridironNow.com (GN) in September, 2015. GN is a college football website specializing in the coverage of SEC Football and employs nationally known writers Tony Barnhart, Mike Huguenin, Jimmy Hyams and others.
References
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Living people
Jacksonville Jaguars announcers
American radio sports announcers
National Football League announcers
People from Jacksonville, Florida
Year of birth missing (living people)
College football announcers
Florida Gators football announcers