Tony Bruno
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Tony Bruno (born June 13, 1952) is an American
sports
talk radio
personality in Philadelphia
, Pennsylvania
.
He is a sports radio veteran, having worked at all four of today's national American sports broadcasters: ESPN Radio
, Fox Sports Radio
, Sporting News Radio
and the Content Factory; he has held a job at one of the three networks near-continuously from 1992 through today.
's Morning Guys show with Angelo Cataldi
and Al Morganti
.
decided to launch its own radio network in 1992, they tagged Bruno to be one of the co-hosts. Bruno co-hosted ESPN Radio
's Gamenight on weekends and continued to co-host The Morning Guys on weekdays. In 1995, Bruno joined ESPN Radio full-time and co-hosted the Bruno-Golic Morning Show
with former NFL Player Mike Golic
. (Bruno left the morning show in 1999 and was replaced by current co-host Mike Greenberg.)
network. Once again, Bruno played the role of a pioneering host for an up and coming sports radio network. Bruno hosted The Tony Bruno Extravaganza morning program with Andrew Siciliano. During this time, Bruno was frequently a guest host on Fox Sports Network's The Best Damn Sports Show Period
. Prior to heading west to California, Bruno hosted a morning show on 620 WDAE in Tampa.
Bruno would eventually be unable to come to a contract renewal agreement with Fox
. He left radio for 9 months to tour the world and entertain offers.
for most of the show's run on Sporting News.
The Tony Bruno Show appeared on Sporting News Radio
and XM Satellite Radio
Channel 144 on weekdays from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Eastern Time, and on Sirius
Channel 123 on weekdays from 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Eastern Time.
announced on his January 21, 2008 show that Bruno had left Sporting News Radio
and the future of his daily half-hour with Bruno was uncertain. Bruno's last show on SNR was on January 18 and he departed the network when his contract expired in April 2008.
Tony was in the San Francisco Bay Area and appeared live in the KNBR
studios with Gary Radnich on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28. He mentioned on February 28 that he would be on daily until March 8, after which he would go on vacation. He also mentioned that he had 'sat down' with Lee Hammer, Program Manager of KNBR. After his vacation, he returned to regular broadcasting with the Gary Radnich Show, and announced he would be returning to nationwide radio September 29, 2008 with his own show.
On August 1, 2011, Gary Radnich announced KNBR management has decided to drop the half-hour segment with Tony Bruno after 16 years.
. The show has Bruno listing statistics
and accomplishments from the previous "week" of play. In addition, he "interviews" players and coaches, takes calls from listeners, and even asks trivia questions.
on The Dan Patrick Show.
announced it had partnered with The Content Factory to distribute Tony Bruno's show across the Fox Sports Radio network beginning August 10. Tony will take over the same 10 PM to 1 AM timeslot on the east coast, while former timeslot host JT "The Brick" will move to overnights, replacing the pre-recorded clip show, Fox Sports Soup. The Content Factory will continue to produce the show, but Westwood One will cease distribution.
. Company peer Dan Patrick's show was bought in the deal as well. The show is now produced by the newly formed DIRECTV Sports Group. The distribution arrangement with Premiere Radio remained unchanged.
and the San Francisco Giants
at AT&T Park
in San Francisco, Giants pitcher Ramon Ramirez hit Phillies batter Shane Victorino
with a pitch. The play led to a benches-clearing brawl between the teams, with Ramirez, Victorino and two other players ejected. Following the play, Bruno published a comment on his Facebook page, which automatically posted a shortened version on his Twitter account, referring to Giants manager Bruce Bochy
, which was quickly re-Tweeted by several Immigration Rights organizations:
According to a San Francisco Chronicle story, Bruno removed the message, but it had already spread. Bruno subsequently published an apology on his Facebook
website page stating: "None of this defends what was posted in a moment of anger on Friday night and I immediately realized how it looked and the stupidity of a bad analogy by removing it, acknowledging it and have felt horrible about it ever since". Bruno has been a long time advocate of changing the "Unwritten Rules of Baseball" where managers give their pitchers a sign telling them to hit whoever is at bat in retaliation for whatever is going on in the game. My side of what really happened on Friday night, August 5th Since then many fans have come to Tony's defense, including many of Hispanic decent, stating that the comment was taken out of context and that after years of listening to Tony and/or having met him, there is no way his comment was meant to be racist.
Bruno is divorced with three grown children and lived in Venice, California, but has moved back to Philadelphia, PA as of September 2011. He attended Temple University
in Philadelphia, majoring in political science
and journalism
.
Tony Bruno (born June 13, 1952) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
sports
Sports radio
Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...
talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
personality in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
.
He is a sports radio veteran, having worked at all four of today's national American sports broadcasters: ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
, Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio, abbreviated FSR, is an international radio network consisting of sports talk programming. The network is a service of Premiere Networks...
, Sporting News Radio
Sporting News Radio
Yahoo! Sports Radio, formerly Sporting News Radio is a United States sports radio network that broadcasts sports news, talk, scores, and highlights 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On August 1, 2011, it was announced the network would change its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio, effective...
and the Content Factory; he has held a job at one of the three networks near-continuously from 1992 through today.
WCAU and KFI
Bruno has been involved in news, talk and sports in his career and has hosted general talk at WCAU 1210 in Philadelphia where he was the morning host and KFI in Los Angeles as a fill-in host. When WCAU abandoned talk in 1991 Bruno returned to Sports Talk as a co-host of 610 WIPWIP-AM
WIP is a Philadelphia radio station with an all-sports format. Located at 610 AM, the station adopted its current all-sports format in 1986, making it the first all-sports radio station in the United States...
's Morning Guys show with Angelo Cataldi
Angelo Cataldi
Angelo Cataldi is a sports radio personality for 610 WIP in Philadelphia. Airing from 5:30am until 10:00am Eastern time, along with co-hosts Al Morganti, Keith Jones and Rhea Hughes.-Career:Cataldi is a native of Providence, Rhode Island...
and Al Morganti
Al Morganti
Michael "Al" Morganti is a nationally recognized hockey analyst who has covered the National Hockey League and international competitions. He is currently a pre and post-game analyst for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL for games broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia and occasionally, The...
.
ESPN Radio
When ESPNESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
decided to launch its own radio network in 1992, they tagged Bruno to be one of the co-hosts. Bruno co-hosted ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
's Gamenight on weekends and continued to co-host The Morning Guys on weekdays. In 1995, Bruno joined ESPN Radio full-time and co-hosted the Bruno-Golic Morning Show
Mike and Mike in the Morning
Mike and Mike in the Morning is an American sports-talk radio show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg on ESPN Radio and simulcast on television, normally on ESPN2. If ESPN is broadcasting a live sporting event during the show's timeslot, Sportscenter will air on ESPN2, and the show's...
with former NFL Player Mike Golic
Mike Golic
Michael Louis "Mike" Golic is a co-host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning and a former defensive lineman at Notre Dame and in the NFL. The NFL website lists him as and ....
. (Bruno left the morning show in 1999 and was replaced by current co-host Mike Greenberg.)
Fox Sports Radio
In 2000, Bruno moved to Los Angeles, launching Fox Sports RadioFox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio, abbreviated FSR, is an international radio network consisting of sports talk programming. The network is a service of Premiere Networks...
network. Once again, Bruno played the role of a pioneering host for an up and coming sports radio network. Bruno hosted The Tony Bruno Extravaganza morning program with Andrew Siciliano. During this time, Bruno was frequently a guest host on Fox Sports Network's The Best Damn Sports Show Period
The Best Damn Sports Show Period
The Best Damn Sports Show Period is an American sports television show on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50 countdown shows and other sports...
. Prior to heading west to California, Bruno hosted a morning show on 620 WDAE in Tampa.
Bruno would eventually be unable to come to a contract renewal agreement with Fox
Fox Entertainment Group
The Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties...
. He left radio for 9 months to tour the world and entertain offers.
Sporting News Radio
In 2006, he signed with Sporting News Radio. He hosted there from 2006 to 2008, in the same morning show time slot. He was carried on XM Sports NationXM Sports Nation
Sirius XM Sports Nation is a work-in-progress channel on Sirius XM Radio, and is mainly the result of a merging of Sirius Sports Central and XM Sports Nation, and a couple programming changes with sister channel Mad Dog Radio....
for most of the show's run on Sporting News.
The Tony Bruno Show appeared on Sporting News Radio
Sporting News Radio
Yahoo! Sports Radio, formerly Sporting News Radio is a United States sports radio network that broadcasts sports news, talk, scores, and highlights 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On August 1, 2011, it was announced the network would change its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio, effective...
and XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...
Channel 144 on weekdays from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Eastern Time, and on Sirius
Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...
Channel 123 on weekdays from 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Eastern Time.
Relationship with Gary Radnich
Gary RadnichGary Radnich
Gary Radnich is the host of the 9 a.m. to noon slot on KNBR radio in San Francisco, California, and is also the lead sports anchor on KRON television.-Early life:...
announced on his January 21, 2008 show that Bruno had left Sporting News Radio
Sporting News Radio
Yahoo! Sports Radio, formerly Sporting News Radio is a United States sports radio network that broadcasts sports news, talk, scores, and highlights 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On August 1, 2011, it was announced the network would change its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio, effective...
and the future of his daily half-hour with Bruno was uncertain. Bruno's last show on SNR was on January 18 and he departed the network when his contract expired in April 2008.
Tony was in the San Francisco Bay Area and appeared live in the KNBR
KNBR
KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....
studios with Gary Radnich on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28. He mentioned on February 28 that he would be on daily until March 8, after which he would go on vacation. He also mentioned that he had 'sat down' with Lee Hammer, Program Manager of KNBR. After his vacation, he returned to regular broadcasting with the Gary Radnich Show, and announced he would be returning to nationwide radio September 29, 2008 with his own show.
On August 1, 2011, Gary Radnich announced KNBR management has decided to drop the half-hour segment with Tony Bruno after 16 years.
Madden NFL
Bruno is the host of EA Sports Radio, a show that has appeared on the 2005, 2006, and 2007 versions of the Madden NFL video gameMadden NFL
Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game series is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator...
. The show has Bruno listing statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
and accomplishments from the previous "week" of play. In addition, he "interviews" players and coaches, takes calls from listeners, and even asks trivia questions.
Dan Patrick Show
On July 16–18, 2008, March 1–2, 2010, April 26–27, 2010 October 18–20, 2010, July 5-6, 2011 Tony filled in for Dan PatrickDan Patrick
Daniel Patrick Pugh , professionally known as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor from Mason, Ohio...
on The Dan Patrick Show.
Returning to radio
On September 29, 2008 Tony returned to radio as host of Into The Night with Tony Bruno which had first aired live on the West Coast from 7 to 10pm on am 570 KLAC- the top ranked Sports station in Los Angeles. After a one-month "shakedown" exclusively on AM570, it was syndicated around the country on November 3. This show is produced by The Content Factory, the same people who produced The Dan Patrick Show before he was added to the Fox Sports Radio lineup in January 2009. As of January 20, 2009, the show has been picked up and distributed by Westwood One. Bruno airs the show from various locations around the country depending on the event going on, such as the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four and other various major sporting events.Return to Fox Sports Radio
On July 30, 2009, Premiere Radio NetworksPremiere Radio Networks
Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...
announced it had partnered with The Content Factory to distribute Tony Bruno's show across the Fox Sports Radio network beginning August 10. Tony will take over the same 10 PM to 1 AM timeslot on the east coast, while former timeslot host JT "The Brick" will move to overnights, replacing the pre-recorded clip show, Fox Sports Soup. The Content Factory will continue to produce the show, but Westwood One will cease distribution.
DIRECTV Sports Group
On October 22, 2009, The Content Factory made it official that Tony Bruno's program was being sold to DirecTVDirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
. Company peer Dan Patrick's show was bought in the deal as well. The show is now produced by the newly formed DIRECTV Sports Group. The distribution arrangement with Premiere Radio remained unchanged.
Return to Philadelphia
On January 18, 2010, Tony, paired with Harry Mayes, returned to a daily show from noon to 2 PM on ESPN 950/97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia.'Illegal Alien' Controversy
On August 5, 2011, during a game between the Philadelphia PhilliesPhiladelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
and the San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
at AT&T Park
AT&T Park
AT&T Park is a ballpark located in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, at the corner of Third and King Streets, it has served as the home of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball since 2000....
in San Francisco, Giants pitcher Ramon Ramirez hit Phillies batter Shane Victorino
Shane Victorino
Shane Patrick Victorino is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. He is a switch-hitter and throws right-handed.-Career:...
with a pitch. The play led to a benches-clearing brawl between the teams, with Ramirez, Victorino and two other players ejected. Following the play, Bruno published a comment on his Facebook page, which automatically posted a shortened version on his Twitter account, referring to Giants manager Bruce Bochy
Bruce Bochy
Bruce Douglas Bochy is the manager of the San Francisco Giants. Prior to joining the Giants, Bochy had been the manager of the San Diego Padres for twelve seasons. Bochy is the only former Padres player to serve as the team's manager. He has participated in all five postseason appearances in...
, which was quickly re-Tweeted by several Immigration Rights organizations:
- gutless #!@%*# Giants, Bochy is a coward for having his illegal alien pitcher hit a guy since mighty Frisco boys getting their asses handed to them.
According to a San Francisco Chronicle story, Bruno removed the message, but it had already spread. Bruno subsequently published an apology on his Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
website page stating: "None of this defends what was posted in a moment of anger on Friday night and I immediately realized how it looked and the stupidity of a bad analogy by removing it, acknowledging it and have felt horrible about it ever since". Bruno has been a long time advocate of changing the "Unwritten Rules of Baseball" where managers give their pitchers a sign telling them to hit whoever is at bat in retaliation for whatever is going on in the game. My side of what really happened on Friday night, August 5th Since then many fans have come to Tony's defense, including many of Hispanic decent, stating that the comment was taken out of context and that after years of listening to Tony and/or having met him, there is no way his comment was meant to be racist.
Personal life
When Tony was just 10 years old, his father died from leukemia. Today Tony regularly visits his mother Angelina Bruno, an Italian immigrant, who came to this country when she was 18, who makes, as Tony claims, the "best meatballs ever", and even re-shingled her Philadelphia roof Summer 2007.Bruno is divorced with three grown children and lived in Venice, California, but has moved back to Philadelphia, PA as of September 2011. He attended Temple University
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
in Philadelphia, majoring in political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
and journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
.