From The Press Box To Press Row
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From the Press Box to Press Row is a nationally syndicated sports talk radio
show which places major emphasis on HBCU (Historically Black College and University) sports or Black college sports. The show airs for one hour weekly on stations across the country. The show can also be listened to on line at www.boxtorow.com. Donal Ware currently hosts the show.
The show premiered on August 20, 2005 as a live call-in show on seven stations around the country. From the Press Box to Press Row celebrated its 100th show on September 15, 2007, and its 200th show on August 29, 2009.
From the Press Box to Press Row was also featured in JET Magazine (August 9/16, T.I. cover) after celebrating five years on the air on August 20, 2010.
Some of the show's guests have included top HBCU coaches, student-athletes and administrators and have also included tennis superstar Serena Williams, Demarcus Ware, Jim Brown, Tony Dungy, Frank Robinson, the late Buck O'Neil, Stephen A. Smith, William Rhoden, Jason Whitlock, Avery Johnson, Kellen Winslow, Michael Strahan, Bill Lester, Sam Jones, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Al Attles, Earl Lloyd, Ken Williams, just to name a few. The show has stepped outside of sports and has had such guests as rapper-actor Common, rapper Scarface, actor-comedian Anthony Anderson, and gospel recording artist Smokie Norful. From the Press Box to Press Row has broadcast live from world renowned events such as Radio Row at Super Bowl's XLI, XLIII and XLIII. The show was also credentialed to cover Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. From the Press Box to Press Row has also broadcast live from NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas
and New Orleans, NBA Finals, the MLB All-star game in 2009 in St. Louis, and live from the CIAA Tournament.
Other entities that are direct derivatives of the show include www.boxtorow.com, the official Web site of From The Press Box To Press Row, Boxtorow Blitz, a weekly three-minute feature encompassing actual play-by-play audio of some of the big HBCU games during the week and audio of big plays made by HBCU alumni who are playing in the NFL, the Boxtorow Beauties, Football Fantasies Calendar Series, the Boxtorow.com/BASN HBCU Football Weekly Top 10 Polls (media and coaches), From The Press Box To Press Row's Top 10 I-AA HBCU Recruiting Classes, From The Press Box To Press Row: This History Makes Past, Present and Future, the Boxtorow Report, the official monthly newsletter of From The Press Box To Press Row, the Boxtorow.com scoreboard, which updates HBCU football scores every 30 minutes on game days, Boxtorow.com Game of the Week and HBCU Radio Central.
The show is owned and operated by DWCommunications, LLC and is syndicated by and is a presentation of the DWCommunications Radio Networks.
Talk radio
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show which places major emphasis on HBCU (Historically Black College and University) sports or Black college sports. The show airs for one hour weekly on stations across the country. The show can also be listened to on line at www.boxtorow.com. Donal Ware currently hosts the show.
The show premiered on August 20, 2005 as a live call-in show on seven stations around the country. From the Press Box to Press Row celebrated its 100th show on September 15, 2007, and its 200th show on August 29, 2009.
From the Press Box to Press Row was also featured in JET Magazine (August 9/16, T.I. cover) after celebrating five years on the air on August 20, 2010.
Some of the show's guests have included top HBCU coaches, student-athletes and administrators and have also included tennis superstar Serena Williams, Demarcus Ware, Jim Brown, Tony Dungy, Frank Robinson, the late Buck O'Neil, Stephen A. Smith, William Rhoden, Jason Whitlock, Avery Johnson, Kellen Winslow, Michael Strahan, Bill Lester, Sam Jones, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Al Attles, Earl Lloyd, Ken Williams, just to name a few. The show has stepped outside of sports and has had such guests as rapper-actor Common, rapper Scarface, actor-comedian Anthony Anderson, and gospel recording artist Smokie Norful. From the Press Box to Press Row has broadcast live from world renowned events such as Radio Row at Super Bowl's XLI, XLIII and XLIII. The show was also credentialed to cover Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. From the Press Box to Press Row has also broadcast live from NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas
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and New Orleans, NBA Finals, the MLB All-star game in 2009 in St. Louis, and live from the CIAA Tournament.
Other entities that are direct derivatives of the show include www.boxtorow.com, the official Web site of From The Press Box To Press Row, Boxtorow Blitz, a weekly three-minute feature encompassing actual play-by-play audio of some of the big HBCU games during the week and audio of big plays made by HBCU alumni who are playing in the NFL, the Boxtorow Beauties, Football Fantasies Calendar Series, the Boxtorow.com/BASN HBCU Football Weekly Top 10 Polls (media and coaches), From The Press Box To Press Row's Top 10 I-AA HBCU Recruiting Classes, From The Press Box To Press Row: This History Makes Past, Present and Future, the Boxtorow Report, the official monthly newsletter of From The Press Box To Press Row, the Boxtorow.com scoreboard, which updates HBCU football scores every 30 minutes on game days, Boxtorow.com Game of the Week and HBCU Radio Central.
The show is owned and operated by DWCommunications, LLC and is syndicated by and is a presentation of the DWCommunications Radio Networks.