April 26, 2010 - Miami, FL (www.touchdownradio.com) -- Touchdown Radio Productions, America’s leading independent producer of College Football radio coverage, has announced its broadcast schedule for the 2010 NCAA football season.
Our schedule has it all, the defending national champion, 9 of last 10 national championship teams, and reigning conference champions from the Big 10, Pac 10, Big 12 and SEC. We have Lane Kiffin’s debut at USC, Miami’s trip to Columbus to try and avenge their 2002 BCS Championship loss to Ohio State and the most storied rivalry in all of college football Michigan versus Ohio State,” says Gino Torretta, 1992 Heisman Trophy Winner, Founder and CEO of Touchdown Radio.
Via a production, marketing and ad sales partnership with United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. (“USRN”), Touchdown Radio broadcasts to millions of listeners during the NCAA season, and Touchdown’s CEO and founder, Gino Torretta, expects to build upon its reputation as a national leader in high-quality play-by-play programming with the announcement of this season’s impressive schedule of games.
2010 Touchdown Radio Broadcast Schedule
September 2: University of Southern California at Hawaii
September 11: Miami at Ohio State
September 18: BYU at FSU
September 25: Kentucky at Florida
September 30: Texas A&M at Oklahoma State
October 9: Tennessee at Georgia
October 16: Ole Miss at Alabama
October 23: Oklahoma at Missouri
October 30: Baylor at Texas
November 6: Washington at Oregon
November 13: Penn State at Ohio State
November 20: Nebraska at Texas A&M
November 27: Michigan at Ohio State
December 4: TBD
Bowl Games: Eagle Bank Bowl, TBD
“Touchdown Radio’s unique broadcast format and experienced team will bring the game to the fans,” said Torretta, a former University of Miami Heisman Trophy Winner. “Our goal is to deliver the best NCAA match-ups every week with high-quality and entertaining play-by-play.”
Gino Torretta will serve as the analyst on all of the broadcasts, bringing the listeners insight that only a 2- time National Champion quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner can. Joining Torretta in the booth will be Frank Frangie and Roxy Bernstein. Frangie brings over 20 years of radio and television experience to the booth, and Bernstein has handled MLB, NFL , NHL and NCAA broadcasts in his career.
“We’ve been incredibly fortunate to compile a very experienced broadcast team,” said Torretta. “Our mission is to bring expert commentary, compelling play-by-play and insightful analysis to our listening audience and make the fans feel they are a part of the game.”
About Gino Torretta:
Gino Torretta was the most celebrated football player in the University of Miami and National Collegiate Athletic Association history. A 1991 graduate with a degree in Business Management, Torretta won both athletic and academic awards during his prolific career as a Hurricane. He became only the second player in Hurricane history to win the coveted Heisman Trophy Award as the nation’s top collegiate football player. He was also honored as the Walter Camp Football Foundation’s Player of the Year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Torretta has been heavily involved with TV and Radio Production the past decade serving as a game analyst on several NFL and college football weekly match-ups. He is currently the co-host for the nationally syndicated College Kick-Off show and has also hosted Southeastern Football Today on Comcast Sports Southeast, Orange/Black Preview for Oklahoma State University and the Orange/Blue Preview show for the University of Illinois. He has also been the color analyst on game broadcasts for ESPN, CSS and Fox Sports Net.
United Stations Radio Networks is America's leading independently owned and operated radio network. USRN currently produces and distributes dozens of format-specific programs and services accounting for nearly 5000 affiliations with commercial radio stations across the country. The New York-based company maintains programming, sales and affiliate marketing offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington and Nashville. USRN was founded in 1994 by radio pioneers Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky.
