Jon Rish (born 1973) is an American former radio personality, best known for his work in the

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area.

Career

Rish was a radio host for

WEEI-FM WEEI-FM (93.7 Hertz, MHz) – branded SportsRadio 93.7 WEEI-FM – is a commercial Sports radio, sports Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. Owned by ...

in Boston. Rish attended

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and began his sportscasting experience on

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, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area. Rish's broadcasting career began in 1993, when he was an intern on Boston sports radio host

Dale Arnold Dale Everett Arnold (born March 27, 1956) is a New England sportscaster. He hosts Boston Bruins broadcasts on NESN and co-hosted talk radio shows on WEEI until his retirement from radio on March 12, 2021, announced the day before. He was the ...

's WEEI program. He subsequently broadcast college sports on several Boston-area stations. From 2006 to 2012, Rish hosted the Boston Red Sox pre and post game show on the

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. Rish served in the Red Sox broadcast booth alongside

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since 2008, sharing time with Dale Arnold and Dave O'Brien. Arnold and Rish replaced

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, who left after the 2007 season for the

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radio booth. Rish primarily announced games when O'Brien was away on assignment for

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. On June 10, 2010, Rish filled in on the NESN TV broadcast for

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who fell ill just before the start of the Red Sox game at Cleveland. On April 8, 2013, after being asked to take a major pay cut by WEEI owner

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, Rish announced that he was leaving not only WEEI but the radio business as well, saying he had been "accepted into a training program to become a software developer and will begin that career path." His last assignment for Red Sox Radio Network was for the game between the

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and the Red Sox on April 24, 2013. In August 2013, Rish was chosen by

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to serve as a substitute color analyst for

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games while regular analyst

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was on leave following the arrest of his son,

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, for murder. Rish also served as substitute Boston Red Sox play-by-play announcer on NESN in July 2014 while regular announcer

was on vacation.

References

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