Like Glickman, Michael seamlessly travels from sport to sport, then to the business side of radio and back to play-by-play. In the broadcasting world, he has hit the big time with the Redskins job, but isn't above working lower profile environments.
When WJFK hired him in February 2004, Kvancz thought for sure that Michael would say his goodbyes to GW.
"I heard Redskins," Kvancz said. "I thought we were out." Michael replaced Frank Herzog, who was fired after 23 years announcing the Redskins' games.
"Ironically enough," Michael said, "when I got the Redskins job, people were coming up to me saying, 'Sorry you're going to leave.' And I said, 'I'm not going anywhere.'"
So he stayed, and the non-move benefited a group of aspiring radio personalities. Beattie, along with fellow student broadcasters Sam Farber and Brett Kaplan (a graduate student) assist Michael with each Colonials' broadcast. The trio's duties go beyond fetching coffee. They work with equipment, interview players and occasionally get a bit of airtime at halftime.
While calling games for WRGW is great experience, Beattie said, working with Michael for WMET has been invaluable to him. Corporate radio is a game that is much harder to master than radio at the college level, where there are fewer guidelines to follow and no sponsors to worry about.
"It's good to get to know a lot of the nuts and bolts of it," Beattie said. "It's crazy to think about all the people you could piss off in corporate radio who don't get their money's worth."
Michael was in his apprentices' shoes earlier in his life. After growing up in Silver Spring, Md. he attended the University of Maryland, where he planned to be a law enforcement major. But discovering WMUC, the campus radio station, changed all that. Instead of pursuing a career as a lawyer, he majored in radio, television and film, and called Terrapins basketball games.
"I definitely see myself in these guys," Michael said of Beattie, Farber and Kaplan. He acknowledged their hard work and said if they keep at it, they'll land jobs in radio, of which he has had a multitude over the years.
When WJFK hired him in February 2004, Kvancz thought for sure that Michael would say his goodbyes to GW.
"I heard Redskins," Kvancz said. "I thought we were out." Michael replaced Frank Herzog, who was fired after 23 years announcing the Redskins' games.
"Ironically enough," Michael said, "when I got the Redskins job, people were coming up to me saying, 'Sorry you're going to leave.' And I said, 'I'm not going anywhere.'"
So he stayed, and the non-move benefited a group of aspiring radio personalities. Beattie, along with fellow student broadcasters Sam Farber and Brett Kaplan (a graduate student) assist Michael with each Colonials' broadcast. The trio's duties go beyond fetching coffee. They work with equipment, interview players and occasionally get a bit of airtime at halftime.
While calling games for WRGW is great experience, Beattie said, working with Michael for WMET has been invaluable to him. Corporate radio is a game that is much harder to master than radio at the college level, where there are fewer guidelines to follow and no sponsors to worry about.
"It's good to get to know a lot of the nuts and bolts of it," Beattie said. "It's crazy to think about all the people you could piss off in corporate radio who don't get their money's worth."
Michael was in his apprentices' shoes earlier in his life. After growing up in Silver Spring, Md. he attended the University of Maryland, where he planned to be a law enforcement major. But discovering WMUC, the campus radio station, changed all that. Instead of pursuing a career as a lawyer, he majored in radio, television and film, and called Terrapins basketball games.
"I definitely see myself in these guys," Michael said of Beattie, Farber and Kaplan. He acknowledged their hard work and said if they keep at it, they'll land jobs in radio, of which he has had a multitude over the years.
