Potesta, Zangrilli Form 2009 Curve Broadcast Team
January 14, 2009 - Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
ALTOONA, Pa - The Altoona Curve today announced their radio crew for the 2009 baseball season.
Veteran Ron Potesta will join the Curve broadcast team while Dan Zangrilli returns for his second season in the Blair County Ballpark radio booth.
The duo will form one of the most accomplished radio tandems in the Eastern League.
Now in his 12th season of broadcasting professional baseball, Potesta spent the previous six years with the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx. He served as the Director of Broadcasting/Media Relations for the Double-A Southern League club.
Potesta was known throughout the Southern League for his rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," at Pringles Park.
Ron also spent two years writing a monthly minor league column in Vineline, the official magazine of the Chicago Cubs. In 2007, Potesta was honored as the Southern League Broadcaster of the Year.
Potesta, 44, began his professional broadcasting career in 1998 with the Lubbock Crickets of the Texas-Louisiana League. His career has also taken him to Abilene, TX, Elmira, NY and Vero Beach, FL.
Before "turning pro", Potesta was behind the microphone for a variety of high school baseball, football and basketball games for various stations in Youngstown, Ohio. Ron was raised in Leetonia, Ohio, a small town fifteen miles south of Youngstown.
In additional to serving his on-air role, Potesta will work in the sponsorship sales and media relations departments.
Zangrilli enters his fourth year in professional baseball and his second with Altoona. Prior to joining the Curve broadcast booth last year, Dan spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons with the State College Spikes, working alongside the Voice of the Nittany Lions, Steve Jones.
Dan also works as a sports anchor at News Radio 1020, KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh covering the Steelers, Penguins and Pitt Panthers.
Beginning last week, Dan also assumed the role as the team's Director of Communications, a post that was vacated after the team's longest tenured employee, Jason Dambach left the team last month. Zangrilli will oversee the production of the team's annual media and information guide, the Curve Game Day Program, handle all media inquiries, maintain and produce all content for AltoonaCurve.com, the team's official website, along with writing all press releases for the organization.
Zangrilli, 23, is a graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Mass Media Arts & Journalism, and a minor in athletic coaching.
From 2003-2007 the Pittsburgh native served as the lead broadcaster for Clarion University men's and women's basketball. Zangrilli also served as television broadcaster for Clarion football during the 2003 and 2004 seasons before moving over to the radio side in 2005. While in Clarion, Zangrilli was a morning variety talk host at WCUC-FM for two years while also serving as the station's General Manager and Sports Director for four years.
Dan has also thoroughly enjoyed calling WPIAL football and basketball for the MSA Sports Network for the last eight years, the place where he began his broadcasting career.
Curve games will once again be broadcast on the Altoona Curve Radio Network, a collection of stations throughout Central and Western, Pa., which has become one of the most prestigious in all of Double-A baseball.
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