JOHN CAPARANIS
CAPPY'S CRENDENTIALS
1966-1967: Student Sports Director, WOUB-AM
& FM, Ohio University (Joe Tait was my faculty advisor)
1965-1967: Play-by-Play for Mid-American
Conference games in football, basketball, and baseball
1967-1968: Sports Director,WSOM-AM & FM,
Salem, Ohio. Broadcast Salem and West Branch football
and basketball games
1969-1970: Active Duty, United States
Army, including a tour of duty in the Republic of Viet Nam
1970-1971: Sports Columnist for Salt Lake
City, Utah, newspaper: The Deseret News, and did play-by-play
for the Salt Lake City Bees (Double A affiliate of the Mariners)
1972-1973: Color Commentary for
Youngstown Hardhats and Channel 33 (teamed up with Bob Anderson)
1974-1989: Play-by-Play for TCI Pilot 9
Sports-Television broadcasts of College and High School football,
basketball, and baseball games and one abortion of a swim meet.
1982-1985: Host for television sports call-in
show, Speaking of Sports, for TCI Pilot 9 Sports. Guest on 1st
show was Paul Warfield
1986-1989: Play-by-Play voice of
Youngstown State University Football in Jim Tressel's early days at YSU
1986-1991: Radio Play-by-Play voice of
YSU Basketball network. Jim Clemons and Jon Stroia were the
head coaches.
1991:
Took time off when activated for Operation Desert Storm
1992-1993: Play-by-play of high school
football and basketball games
1993-1998: Basketball voice of the YSU
Penguins and play-by-play of high school football games
1999 thru Present: Radio sports talk
show host plus play-by-play of high school football, basketball, and
baseball games
I've broadcast over 1500 basketball and
over 1000 football games in my career. In addition, I've been involved
in radio station management since the early 1970's. Stations that I've
worked for include: WHHH (1440),
Warren, Ohio...WSOM, Salem, Ohio...KTCL, Salt
Lake City, Utah...WNIO, Niles, Ohio...WASN, Youngstown, Ohio...and, most
rrecently, WBBW, the ESPN affiliate in Youngstown.