Awful Announcing owner, Ben Koo
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Episode 595 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with the owner and editor of Awful Announcing, Ben Koo.
Koo talks about his day-to-day responsibilities, his philosophy on what the site should post and how he feels about amplifying disingenuous people in sports media.
In addition, Koo discusses the relationship Awful Announcing has with the networks that air sports, whether he feels Awful Announcing is respected in sports media, whether he regrets anything the site he posted, the most popular post the site has put out, the most upset a story has made a network and much more.
Following Koo, Sal Licata from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts segment. Topics covered in this episode include issues with trying to purchase MLB.tv thorugh ESPN, the run of celebrity deaths, an iPhone problem Jimmy is having, Sal’s wild use of “legend” to describe a WWE announcer and more.
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| 1:12.5 | Welcome everyone to SI-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 1:15.6 | Thank you so much for listening. |
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| 1:19.4 | We have Ben Koo, who is the owner of awful announcing. |
| 1:22.9 | If you are in the sports media world, |
| 1:24.8 | you are checking awful announcing regularly throughout the day. You follow them on Twitter. That's where you get a lot of sports media world. You are checking, awful announcing regularly throughout the day. |
| 1:28.4 | You follow them on Twitter. |
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