Bucks’ Benway moves on to talk radio

LAREDO, Texas – Beginning next week, sports fans in Laredo, Texas will get a treat when former Laredo Bucks broadcaster Bryan Benway takes to the airwaves on the local radio dial.
The Bryan Benway Show premieres on Monday, June 13th and can be heard Monday thru Friday from 4-6pm CST on ESPN’s “The Zone” 1490AM as well as online. It will be the first locally-focused sports radio talk show in Laredo history, targeting Laredo Bucks hockey, Laredo Heat soccer, high school football, Texas A&M International University athletics, as well as regional teams including the Dallas Cowboys, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Aeros, Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies. Benway will announce the first-ever guest to appear on the program on Friday via Twitter (@BryanBenway). When announcing his departure from the Bucks organization on April 14^th, Benway added this teaser: “I am leaving the Bucks to pursue other opportunities and projects, one that really excites me. Unfortunately, I can’t announce where I’m going just yet, but I can assure you that you have not seen or heard the last of me in Laredo.”
That being the case, a new chapter in the 28-year-old broadcaster’s career is on its way ti fruition, and deservedly so.
A native of Rome, N.Y., Benway is a 2005 graduate of Plattsburgh State University (NY) with a B.A in mass communications. He spent the last four years as the Bucks’ Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting, where he broadcasted the most regular season games in Bucks history (258). He was a finalist for the CHL Communications Executive of the Year award following the 2008-09 season.
Considered one of the best of the CHL’s broadcasting corps, Benway’s style is aptly described by Bob Hoffman, the league’s director of operations.  
“Bryan Benway’s passion for the game and connection with the listening fans is apparent, and he makes every broadcast an adventure and most of all very entertaining,” Hoffman said.

Benway hosted the popular weekly television show “Bucks Insider” which ran for the past two seasons on FOX 39 in Laredo and also appeared frequently as a guest sports anchor on the local NBC affiliate, KGNS-TV.
In January of 2010, he was selected as the television play-by-play broadcaster for the CHL All-Star game on the America One Network which reached nearly 10 million homes nationwide, including New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Not limited to hockey, in 2007, Benway served as Assistant General Manager and Broadcaster for the Little Falls Miners baseball team, of the New York Collegiate Baseball League, a 14-team summer baseball league sanctioned by the National Association of Summer Baseball and Major League Baseball.  
Benway has also worked as an announcer for the Harlem Ambassadors, a show basketball team, announcing nearly 200 games in 34 states, seven Canadian Provinces, and in Japan.
A good friend of Pro Hockey News, we congratulate Bryan on his new endeavor and wish him nothing but success!
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