The
Ducks Live Play By Play Broadcasters
Steve Carroll returns to AM 830
for the Ducks 2009-2010 NHL season, joined this season by Dan Wood who covered the Ducks for years for the OC Register. And Josh Brewster
returns taking your calls after away games on
Duck Calls. Check out our
Game
Schedule page which lists the dates and times
for all of this season's Ducks games.
The Ducks website:
ducks.nhl.com
STEVE CARROLL
Radio Play-by-Play
Steve is in his tenth season as the Ducks radio
play-by-play voice. A veteran of 29 years as
a play-by-play announcer, he joined the club
prior to the 1999-2000 season.
After landing his first play-by-play job as
voice of the Mineral Area Junior College Men's
Basketball Team (Flatriver, Missouri) in 1976,
Carroll has gone on to broadcast in several
sports at both the college and professional
levels. The long list of teams include the Nashville
Sounds, Huntsville Stars, Iowa Cubs, New Orleans
Storm, Vanderbilt University basketball and
the Nashville Knights. He has been employed
in nine states and has called action in every
state with the exception of Alaska and Idaho.
At one point in the mid-1990s, Carroll was in
Nashville broadcasting for five teams in three
sports, while freelancing for a newspaper.
Carroll joined the Ducks after spending the
previous two seasons handling the radio play-by-play
duties for the New Orleans Brass of the ECHL,
including serving in the communications, media
relations and corporate sales departments. He
also called games for the New Orleans Zephyrs,
a Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros,
from 1996-98.
The 51-year-old Carroll has previous NHL broadcasting
experience with the Philadelphia Flyers, serving
as radio play-by-play announcer for the 1995-96
season. He also called action for the New Haven
Nighthawks of the AHL during the 1985-86 season
and the Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) from 1981-85.
A native of St. Louis, Carroll is also a contributor
to anaheimducks.com, the club's official team
website. On behalf of the team he does numerous
speaking engagements and charity work during
the season and in the summer months. Carroll
also co-hosted "This Week in Angels Baseball"
for two years on Adelphia Cable in Southern
California.
Steve and his wife Rhonda, reside in Ladera
Ranch.
DAN WOOD
Radio Color Analyst
Dan Wood enters his first season as radio color analyst for the Anaheim Ducks. Wood, who was named to his current position on Aug. 24, 2009, will join Steve Carroll in the Ducks radio broadcast booth for all pre-, regular and postseason games, led by flagship station AM 830 KLAA. In addition to his duties as radio color analyst, Wood will also contribute to AnaheimDucks.com.
A 17-year veteran writer of NHL hockey, Wood covered the Ducks for the Orange County Register from 2000-09, including the club's run to the 2007 Stanley Cup championship. Prior to joining the Register, Wood covered the San Jose Sharks for the Contra Costa Times from the team's inception in 1991 until 2000.
A professional sportswriter since June 1980, Wood has previously covered Stanford University football, men's and women's basketball, Bay Area college baseball and St. Mary's College basketball, as well as high school and local sports.
Born in Ely, NV, Wood was raised in Livermore, CA, in the East Bay portion of the San
Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Livermore High School in 1976 and San Jose State University in 1980 (journalism major, sociology minor). He currently resides in Anaheim Hills with wife Kim and son Kenny. His daughter, Jennifer, resides in Jacksonville, FL.
JOSH BREWSTER
Duck Calls Sports Talk Show Host
Josh is the host of "Duck Calls," the Anaheim
Ducks' postgame radio show after road games
on AM830 (KLAA) in SoCal. He founded the Western
Hockey Network in 2000, producing all-hockey
radio programming as well as print media, covering
the world's greatest game from Southern California.
Josh is also the producer of the groundbreaking
web radio series, "Hockeytalk Audio Features,"
available for listening at www.hockeytalk.biz.
He also appears regularly on XM Satellite Radio.
On November 3, 2007, he filled in as color commentator
on the Ducks' radio broadcast from Phoenix,
calling the game with Steve Carroll. Brewster
also appeared on WNSA FM in Buffalo as an NHL
commentator from 2002-04.
His hockey writing has been featured in The
Hockey News and Hockey Digest. A 20-plus year
veteran radio and voiceover personality, Josh
has been heard narrating television series for
Animal Planet and USA Network, as well as countlesss
radio and TV commercials across America.
He lives with his wife, Catherine, and his sons,
Brent and Shane, in Los Angeles.