TPM Episode 134: Steve Buckhantz, Sports Broadcaster
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Steve Buckhantz, or as I like to call him, Uncle Steven, is a legend in the world of Washington DC sports broadcasters. He's won Emmy Awards, was the voice of the Washington Wizards for the past 22 years, was inducted into the DC Sports Hall of Fame, the list goes on and on. His work speaks for itself, but in the world of business, that doesn't matter. Weeks ago, the Washington Wizards parted ways with their longtime, hometown, announcer, in the worst way possible. We talk about his long career, Michael Jordan and more. It's an interesting one.
Steve Buckhantz Show Notes:
2:00: Eagles, Redskins and Football
8:22: When did he realize he wanted to be a broadcaster, manual labor, and U of M/JMU
13:00: Getting on the radio, then TV and internships
22:00: Chattanooga and Nashville
25:45: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
27:30: What was life like for a young Buckhantz, Atlanta and coming to DC
31:45: Locker rooms, Dexter Manley, and Fox
40:00: Losing the NFL deal, side work, and The Bullets
47:00 Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
48:15: Michael Jordan, NBA travel, and moving seats at wiz
59:30: Moving the broadcasters, losing Phil, and not picking up his contract option
66:00: Cold-hearted Wizards Ownership
78:40: Inappropriate Questions with Chick Hernandez
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. You're listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and I am finally back from vacation and have a totally different podcast for you this week. |
| 0:20.5 | When I say different, it's really the same shit but in the world of team sports with Steve |
| 0:25.5 | Buckhantz, a dude I grew up calling Uncle Stephen. |
| 0:29.3 | The DC area has known my uncle for his Emmy Award winning DC Hall of Fame level broadcasting |
| 0:34.9 | skills over the past 40 years. |
| 0:37.2 | Buck, as some column, has done it all. |
| 0:39.6 | He's broadcasted for the NFL, Georgetown basketball, Navy football. |
| 0:44.2 | He did the D.C. area sports. |
| 0:46.1 | And he spent 22 years as the voice of the perennial dormats of the NBA, the Washington Wizards. |
| 0:52.1 | For those 22 years he spent with the struggling wizards, Buckhant's |
| 0:55.6 | got better and better becoming a known entity in the world of DC sports. His trademark |
| 1:01.0 | dagger call is part of the everyday vocabulary in DC. He made an impact. And if you haven't |
| 1:06.8 | heard the Buckhant saga over the past six months, I'm not going to spoil it in the |
| 1:11.0 | intro. You'll have to listen for all the details. Before I get into it, I want to ask you to |
| 1:15.8 | subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you listen to me on, tell a friend about the show, |
| 1:20.9 | and support my great sponsors. They are Evo, Stanley, Spy Optic, and the 10 Barrel Brewery. Now, let's talk to Steve Buckehance. |
| 1:31.4 | My audience is a ski and snowboard audience. They don't need to hear a ton about your growing up, |
| 1:36.1 | but we're going to talk about some of it. You were born and raised in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 1:40.3 | You had, I would say, a privileged life growing up. Your father ran a construction company. Life was |
| 1:45.1 | easy for a young buckhance. I heard stories of you going up to Philadelphia when you were younger |
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