Say it ain't so!
Johnstown-Altoona-State College: The voice of the Penguins' TV broadcasts used to be ... a Red Wing!This shocking news was uncovered by the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, which reports that Paul Steigerwald got his start in radio calling games for the Red Wings ... of Johnstown. The team, which lost 45 games during the 1979-80 season, was a farm club for that other team up in Michigan.
Steigerwald's pay for calling games on the former WJNL (1490) was a princely $110 per week; he passed up a job in Hampton, Va., to work in Flood City.
WJNL was going to carry 70 games, while the Hampton station was carrying only 22.
"That Johnstown experience was really good for me," Steigerwald tells the paper. "If I had gone to Hampton and done 22 games, I may have never made it. I might have made it, but I might have gone on a different path."
Readers’ Forum
I don’t know how he ever “made it” he is one of the most unenthusiastic announcers in the NHL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6YIVGXs..
Jason - May 27, 2008 at 6:32 pm
It helped that his last name was “Steigerwald” to get into the business and, at that time, he was not too bad on the eyes. Agreed that he is pretty unenthusiastic. Boring would be a better description. Yawn.
Kelly - May 30, 2008 at 09:28 am
If your name is Steigerwald, they’ll pretty much let you do anything in the Pittsburgh area … sports shows, call-in programs, newspaper columns.
It’s almost as bad as it was in Erie with the DeSantises.
Rick - July 01, 2008 at 11:40 am