Sunday, October 25, 2015

Great memories of my 39+ year radio career to be featured in my in my upcoming book



Hello everybody, my name is Tom Pattison, and I'll be celebrating my 64th birthday on November 8th.  My career has revolved around radio broadcasting, both as a disc jockey and sports announcer. I also spent seven years covering the Green Bay Packers as writer, producer and "Voice" of the Goetz Radio Network's Titletown Report

I owned and operated Warhawkfootball.com. The Website, launched in 2004, centered around the University of Wisconsin football program that exploded onto the national scene shortly after I launched the popular site. My site drew over 3-million "hits" in the 10 years I ran the site.  

My radio career took me to locations throughout the United States. 
It started in 1974 at WATW Radio in Ashland, Wisconsin after graduating from Brown Institute of Broadcasting in Minneapolis.

As was the case growing up in little Durand, Wisconsin, virtually job included incredible sports stories.  Among the stories - the hometown Durand girl's basketball team that won over 50 consecutive games in the mid-1980s on the way to back-to-back state tournament championships. 

In my first year at KXXL Radio in Bozeman, Montana I saw the Montana State University football team capture the 1976 NCAA Division 2 national championship.

My next radio stop took me to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.  At WTON Radio in Staunton I witnessed first hand the No.1 ranked high school basketball player in the country. 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson of Harrisonburg, VA. Ralph drew a who's who of college basketball coaches in the stands recruiting him at each game.  Sampson was perhaps the most intriguing interview in my broadcast career.

My year's covering, and being the "Radio Voice" of UW-Whitewater football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball produced incredible stories and memories for me. 

Perhaps my greatest honor was being inducted into the UW-Whitewater Athletic's Hall of Fame in 2010.

I had joked for a number of years that maybe I should write a book.  Earlier this year, a very good friend if mine talked me into beginning work on the project.

I'll be using this Website to publish some of my greatest memories of my broadcast career. I'll also be giving readers excerpts of the chapters as I write them.

I invite you to visit my Voice's Book Project Website on a regular basis.

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