Melanie Newman - Salem Red Sox Lead Broadcaster

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Sports Spectrum

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Episode 383

Melanie Newman is a broadcasting pioneer. She is one of only five women in the nation to call play-by-play for a professional affiliated baseball team.

The versatile talent is the lead broadcaster for the Salem Red Sox (Boston's High A affiliate) and serves as the sideline reporter for Liberty University football games for ESPN plus.

She is a former play-by-play broadcaster for Texas Rangers AA affiliate in Frisco, host for WKSY-TV, Media Communications Coordinator for the Arizona Fall League, announcer, host and correspondent for the Mobile BayBears (ARI-AA), Atlantic Sun Conference and Sun Belt Conference.

A Troy University graduate, Melanie majored in Broadcast Journalism and earned a double minor in Leadership Studies and Sports Information.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Melanie about her crazy broadcasting grind, her viral reporting moment at Liberty Football's home opener, being a baseball broadcasting pioneer, encouraging young media professionals and why living for Christ is her greatest goal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.9	Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum.
0:21.2	I am Jason Romano.
0:22.4	Today's guest on the podcast is Melanie Newman.
0:25.9	A bit of a broadcasting pioneer.
0:28.6	Melanie is the Salem Red Sox lead broadcaster.
0:31.9	That is the Boston Red Sox High A Minor League affiliate.
0:36.5	And she is the play-by-play broadcaster, and we'll explain the
0:40.3	significance of that in just a moment. But before we get to Melanie and our interviewer conversation
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