Bill Pidto (born April 20, 1965) is currently a radio personality on Mad Dog Radio on the show the B-Team. He was formerly a journalist A journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased for ESPN ESPN is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day, where he was since 1993 1993 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). He was often seen as one of the anchors for ESPNEWS ESPNews , launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel that is owned and operated by the sports network ESPN. It airs news, highlights, press conferences, and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports.
Biography
A native of Palo Alto Palo Alto (pronounced /ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high") is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University and is, California, Pidto was a 1987 graduate of Cornell University Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university and a member of the Ivy League where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology. At Cornell he began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor and reporter for WVBR, a radio station in Ithaca, New York The city of Ithaca, , sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York, USA. It is best known for being home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school with almost 20,000 students (most of them studying on Cornell’s Ithaca campus). Ithaca College is located just south of the city in the town of Ithaca, adding to Ithaca’s “.[1] He was also a member of the Delta Chi Delta Chi (del-ta kai) or D-Chi is an international secret letter college social fraternity formed on October 13, 1890, at Cornell University initially as a professional fraternity for law students. Delta Chi is a member of North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC). The Fraternity is headquartered at 314 Church Street in Iowa City, Iowa Fraternity.
Pidto spent the following two years as the Sports director at WBNG-TV, located in Binghamton, New York Binghamton is a city located in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. "The Parlor City" and the "Home of the Square Deal," it is the county seat of Broome County and the principal city and cultural center of the Greater Binghamton region. The population of the city, according to the 2000 census, is 47,380. In 1989, he left WBNG for a sports anchor job at WSTM-TV in Syracuse, though he spent only a year at this station before moving on to the short-lived Sports News Network in 1990. He broke in with ESPN ESPN is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day as a field producer for the network's Scholastic Sports America, program for two years. In 1992, he also spent time as a sports anchor for New England Cable News New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable television network owned and operated by Comcast serving the New England region of the United States. It is very similar to CNN in structure and style, but focuses more on regional news items and events. The channel is also similar to Northwest Cable News, which covers.[1]
When ESPN2 ESPN2 is a American sports cable television network owned by ESPN. The channel debuted on October 1, 1993 was launched in 1993, Pidto was hired to anchor the program SportsSmash, and hosted NHL 2Night NHL 2Night was a TV show that had highlights of National Hockey League games five nights a week on ESPN2. It was usually broadcast live at midnight eastern time or immediately following an NHL telecast on ESPN2. It was then re-broadcast a few times throughout the night and following day when it debuted in 1995. That same year, Pidto also joined NFL Primetime. During his tenure at ESPN he has also served as an anchor for Baseball Tonight.[1]
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References
- ^ a b c "Bill Pidto - Bio". Sportscasters.info. http://www.sportscasters.info/p/Bill_Pidto.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
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