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Predators Announce Changes

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The Predators will be offering additional television programming on Fox Sports Tennessee to support a minimum of 75 regular-season games this year, up from 70 in 2013-14.

All 82 games will be broadcast on radio on 102.5-FM The Game.

“We’ve really tweaked our broadcast lineup in large part as a result of our increased coverage,” said Chris Parker, Predators executive vice president. “All of the names are very familiar ones — people recognize them, they’ve been associated with our broadcast in many respects since day one — but they have some different roles and responsibilities.”

There will be one new name, Lyndsay Rowley, who will join Predators coverage on Fox Sports as a rink-side reporter.

Rowley has spent time on the sidelines of many sports, from college football to the NBA, and recently worked as the in-house television host for all Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets) home games.

“She comes from a very diverse sports background,” Parker said. “She did some sideline work with the (Columbus) Blue Jackets. She has worked with Fox Sports-affiliated properties over the past several years. She knows hockey, which is critically important.”

Pete Weber will continue in his position as the play-by-play voice of the Predators on Fox Sports broadcasts, joined this year by color commentator Stu Grimson.

Grimson, who has worked for the past six seasons as color commentator on the Predators Radio Network, played 30 games with the Predators during the 2001-02 season and currently serves as president of the Nashville Predators Alumni Association and as president of the Nashville Jr. Predators.

Terry Crisp will continue to be a part of Predators home broadcasts on Fox Sports. He will co-host the pregame and postgame shows with Mark Howard, anchor special features and appear on Predators Snapshot, a look behind-the-scenes at the team.

Howard will continue in his role as anchor, with new co-host Crisp, of the Predators pregame, intermission and postgame reports.

“(Terry) has a job in this organization for as long as he wants,” Parker said. “He’s one of only a handful of guys who’s won a Stanley Cup both as a player and a head coach. So he brings a very unique perspective. He’s loved by the fans, he’s extremely knowledgeable and passionate.”

Willy Daunic, who took over radio play-by-play duties on a temporary basis in the midst of last season, will join the Predators staff full time as the play-by-play voice on the Predators Radio Network and flagship station 102.5-FM.

Daunic has worked in some capacity with the Predators Radio Network since the team’s inception in 1998.

A familiar voice on the topic of Nashville sports, Daunic has had a presence on Nashville sports radio since 1993, including maintaining a place on 102.5’s popular “Sports Night.”

“He took over about a month or six weeks into the season last year,” Parker said. “He did a fantastic job, I think better than any of us could have really thought. Really fell in love with it, enjoyed it immensely.”

Darren McFarland will continue in his position as host of the Predators Radio Network pregame, intermission and postgame shows, a roll he assumed after Daunic took over play-by-play responsibility in October 2013.

Brent Peterson will join Daunic and McFarland on the Predators Radio Network, serving as a color analyst for select games in the 2014-15 season.

Peterson has spent the last 16 years as a member of the Predators hockey operations staff, working behind the bench as a member of the coaching staff from 1998-2011 and most recently as the Preds hockey operations adviser.

In 2007, Peterson founded Peterson Foundation for Parkinson’s, an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the devastating effects of Parkinson’s disease and helping fund critical research and educational and support groups.

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Doug Gottlieb: I Would Give Up Radio For Coaching Job

“I’ve told people that for the radio element to — for the right thing — I’d give it up. The (podcast), I’m not giving it up.”

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Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb recently interviewed for the vacant head coaching job at Wisconsin-Green Bay and detailed the experience on his podcast.

“I got a chance to talk to (Wisconsin-Green Bay AD) Josh Moon several times during the year after they had made their coaching job available and my approach to how I’ve done these things — and this is not the first time I’ve gone down this path, but this was a different path,” Gottlieb said on his All Ball podcast.

“This is a low-major, mid-major job, and there’s no connection there. I’ve told people that for the radio element to — for the right thing — I’d give it up. The (podcast), I’m not giving it up. I love doing it and I think there’s a very smart world where if I’m coaching I can still do this podcast and still do it with basketball people all over the country and the world, and it’s kind of like a cheat code.”

He continued by saying that seeing Shaka Smart be successful at Marquette has motivated him to continue to search for the right fit as a college basketball coach.

“That’s what I want to do. And last year when I was coaching in Israel, that also continued to invigorate me…this is something that I would really like to do. It has to be the right thing. It has to be the right AD who hits the right message.”

He continued by saying that a sticking point of negotiations was he wasn’t willing to give up his nationally syndicated radio program for the job. He was willing to take less money for his assistants pool, but also to continue doing his radio show.

Gottlieb did not get the position with the Phoenix, noting that he was a finalist but was never offered the job. The position ultimately went to Wyoming assistant coach Sundance Wicks. Wicks had previous head coaching experience and had worked with Green Bay athletic director Josh Moon at Division II Northern State. He admitted he wasn’t necessarily “all-in” on the job due to the current ages of his children and whether the timing was right to uproot his family to move to Northeastern Wisconsin.

The Fox Sports Radio host does have coaching experience. He has worked as a coach for the U.S. men’s basketball team at the Maccabiah Games, sometimes referred to as the Jewish Olympics.

Gottlieb’s father — Bob — was the head men’s basketball coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1975-1980, compiling a 97-91 record.

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Waddle & Silvy: Scott Hanson Told Us to Lose His Number

“We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”

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Aaron Rodgers took immense pride in the fact that he told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter to “lose his number” while discussing his future earlier this week on The Pat McAfee Show. ESPN 1000’s Waddle & Silvy said they’ve experienced similar treatment from guests on their radio show.

While discussing the Rodgers interview with McAfee, the pair admitted that NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson once told their producer to stop trying to book him for interviews on the program.

“I believe the presentation was ‘Do me a favor: lose my number after this interview’,” Tom Waddle said. “So he tried to do it politely. Scott Hanson did. Get out of here. That concept is foreign to me. How about ‘Hey, next time you text me, my schedule is full. I can’t do it, but thanks for thinking of me’. ‘Lose my number?’ You ain’t the President, for Christ’s sake. I’m saying that to anyone who would say that. ‘Lose my number?’ We’re all in the communication business. I just don’t know — why be rude like that to people? What does that accomplish? You know what it accomplished? We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”

Co-host Mark Silverman then mentioned that the show once tried to book Hansen and NFL Red Zone host Andrew Siciliano together in the same block, with the idea of doing a trivia game to see who the supreme Red Zone host was. Siciliano agreed, but Hansen declined.

The pair also confirmed that an NFL Network personality had told them to lose their number, but couldn’t remember if it was Rich Eisen or not.

Silverman later joked that maybe Hanson was getting a new phone with a new number, and was politely sharing with the producer that he could lose the current phone number because he would share his new number in short order.

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Seth Payne: Aaron Rodgers ‘Makes Gross Inaccuracies’ When Calling Out Media

“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations.”

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Aaron Rodgers is always mad at the media for the inaccurate things he says they report, but according to Sports Radio 610 morning man Seth Payne, no one is more inaccurate than the quarterback himself.

Friday morning, Payne and his partner Sean Pendergast played audio of Aaron Rodgers responding to a question about a list of players he provided to the Jets demanding they sign. Rodgers called the idea that he would make demands “so stupid” and chastised ESPN reporter Dianna Russini, who was the first to report it.

“Now to be clear, Dianna Russini didn’t say demands in her tweet. She said wishlist,” Pendergast clarified.

They also played a clip of Russini responding to Rodgers on NFL Live saying that she stands by her reporting and it is her job to reach out to confirm that it is true.

“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations,” Seth Payne said.

He added that if Rodgers is being serious, he is doing some serious nitpicking. He claims that he didn’t give the Jets a list, but that he spoke glowingly about former teammates and told the Jets executives that he met with who he enjoyed playing with during his career.

Payne joked that maybe he wrote down the names in a circle pattern so that it was not a list. Pendergast added that he could have had Fat Head stickers on his wall that he pointed to instead of writing anything at all.

In Payne’s mind, this is a case of Russini catching stray frustration. Neither in her initial tweet nor in any subsequent media appearance did she use the phrase “demands”.

“What he’s actually responding to in that instance is Pat McAfee is the one that described it as a list of demands,” Seth Payne said.

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