Matt Fishman Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

PD/Ops Manager for Columbus' #1 Station, 97.1 The Fan

Cleveland, Oh

Responsible for all content created and produced by ESPN Cleveland. This included on-air, online and social media. Lead station internal and external communications. Plus, our subscription site/app The Land on Demand. ESPN Cleveland is America's most followed local sportsradio station with more than 222,000 Twitter/X followers.

United States And Beyond

Wrote a weekly column for Barrettsportsmedia.com--a sports media trade website. My column provided insight and advice to sports radio programmers, talent, producers, and reporters.

Scottsdale, Arizona

An organization comprised of concerned parents and individuals about the well being of our children and student athletes involved in contact sports. The primary mission is to provide the best possible information related to the prevention and reduction of head injuries to athletes.

Responsible for all college sports programming on SiriusXM. Built 24/7 college sports channel. Brought regional Paul Finebaum Show to a national audience. Recruited, signed, and trained former college football players and coaches to host on the channel. The players include Heisman Trophy winners Eddie George, Gino Torretta, Eric Crouch and Tim Brown as well as former college basketball stars Jim Jackson, Miles Simon, Stephen Bardo. Coaches included Gene Chizik, Houston Nutt, Bruce Pearl, Fran Fraschilla, Tom Brennan, Steve Lappas and Bobby Cremins. Directed, managed, and developed 40 person nationwide staff and multi-million dollar annual budget. Specialization in talent recruitment and development. Main point of contact for SiriusXM’s relationships with college conferences, schools, and programming providers. Worked with various key interdepartmental parties including; Broadcast Operations, Production, Ad/Sales, Listener Care, and Marketing.

Worked with third party programming providers to improve content--including ESPN, Fox Sports Radio, Content Factory (Dan Patrick Show) and Sporting News Radio(now Yahoo! Sports Radio). Program Director of XM Sports Nation and Executive Producer of NASCAR-related shows hosted by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Jimmie Johnson.

Joined XM Satellite Radio to launch MLB HomePlate®--America’s first channel entirely devoted to baseball and baseball talk. Duties included, but not limited to: working with talent, MLB teams, hiring staff producers and anchors. Worked with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken and his brother Bill Ripken to launch "Ripken Baseball." Responsible for planning and executing live remotes--including Spring Training, All-Star Game, Hall of Fame and MLB Post-season.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Programmed start-up sports radio station in Kansas City owned by Entercom. Recruited, hired, relocated and trained new staff. Found young talent in a nationwide search. This included hiring DA (Damon Amendolara) from Fort Myers, FL--He's now hosting afternoons on CBS Sports Radio and Doug Franz-now Morning Drive host at KTAR in Phoenix from Huntsville, Alabama. Additionally, created and developed "Dante Hall Show" when the Chiefs Kick Returner was setting NFL records for kick returns. Developed and executed strategic programming, marketing, and communication plans. Worked with local teams and athletes to create good relations and strong local programming elements. Responsible for station imaging, relations with national syndication groups, Arbitron, station budgets, and all day-to-day operations.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of The Score, Chicago’s top rated sports radio station. Directed logistics with department heads (engineering, marketing, sales, and continuity), remote broadcasts, station promotions, broadcast features and play by play. Identified and hired new talent. Met with producers and hosts to discuss overall strategy and show topic and guest ideas. Worked with our broadcast partners (Blackhawks, Bears, Illinois and DePaul) to develop broadcast features, format sheets, game broadcasts and coaches shows.

Greater Chicago Area

Winner “Best Sports talk show” 2000 Chicago A.I.R. Awards. Directed four person staff. Created, researched and developed show topics while booking entertaining and relevant guests. Specialization in remote broadcasts (Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Bears Training Camp, Bears/NFL Pre-game Show).

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area