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- Announcing, Jarrod's Blog, Minor League Hockey, PA Announcements
- February 18, 2020
In over 25 years of P. A. announcing, I’d announced over 1,000 hockey games but had never announced a professional hockey game. Minor League Baseball, yes, I spent nine years there; semi pro sports a few times; college athletics at the National Championship level, D-I, D-II, D-III schools, and more; NHL games as a DJ
READ MOREToday is the day I make my American Hockey League debut for the Hershey Bears. It won’t be the first time announcing in Giant Center, nor my first hockey game announced. There’s been over a thousand of them for USA Hockey youth, USA Hockey junior, World Police & Fire Game, college club, adult hockey leagues,
READ MOREAfter 25 years and thousands of games, I still get nervous before that first mic check. I still get nervous walking into the venue. I still get nervous right before the show starts. Earlier this week, a young sixth grader introduced the Capitals mascot, Slapshot, at his school for an assembly. It’s a show that
READ MOREIn over 25 years of announcing, a lot has changed. We’ve gone from tapes to CDs to Mini Disc to computers. We’re now using digital equipment and wireless is a lot more common. Our modes of communication have changed from phone to email to Skype. It was an email I sent back in 2002 however,
READ MOREThere have been many P. A. announcing jobs posted on this website that have sent people into the audition process. It’s our goal to help those looking to further their P. A. career with the proper tools to do so, while also helping those who are looking for the right talent. A couple of months
READ MOREReports are coming out of Chicago that the Cubs DJ played an instrumental version of a potentially volatile song that relates to recent transgressions by one of its players and it brings to light not only what Aroldis Chapman did away from the field, but also something that’s been popular among sports DJs for many
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