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TED DAVIS
RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER
Ted Davis enters his 35th year in broadcasting, with the 2007-08 campaign marking his 11th season as the radio "Voice of the Bucks". He came to Milwaukee following nine seasons calling the action for the Dallas Mavericks. During the 2004-05 campaign, Davis received the Milwaukee Achievement In Radio (AIR) award as the best play-by-play broadcaster for the second time in his career. He won the award in 1998-99 as well. He also earned the KATIE Award - the most prestigious award in Texas for excellence in writing or broadcast journalism - for his work as play-by-play broadcaster on KLIF-AM for the Dallas Mavericks during the 1996-97 season.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, Davis began his radio career at the age of 17 when he was hired by KDNT in Denton, Texas. He spent 10 years (1978-88) on the sports staff at KVIL in Dallas-Fort Worth, and called Texas Christian University and Texas A&M games for the Southwest Conference radio network from 1982-86. He has also covered the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for CBS Radio from 1986-88 and the NCAA Women’s Final Four in 1986 and 1987. Davis has also held announcing positions with KLIF-AM and WBAP-AM in Dallas-Fort Worth, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and North Texas State University (men’s basketball and football).
Ted and his wife, Debbie, also a native Texan, reside in Menomonee Falls.
JIM PASCHKE
TV PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER & TV DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Jim Paschke enters his 35th year in the broadcasting industry with the 2007-08 season. Paschke is currently in his 22nd season as the television "Voice of the Bucks" and 12th as the team’s Television Development Coordinator. He has paired with current broadcast partner Jon McGlocklin, the "Original Buck", for the past 21 seasons. Paschke works year-round on the telecasts, television projects and other team broadcast ventures, and regularly contributes both video and written content on the Bucks web site. Jim is also a featured speaker in the community, addressing various civic groups and school assemblies throughout the year.
A native of Bloomington, Minnesota, he attended the University of Minnesota and Brown Institute in Minneapolis. He began his broadcasting career in radio in Knoxville, Iowa, and moved to television in Sioux City, Iowa. Paschke served as sports director at WMTV-TV15 in Madison, WI, for three years and doubled as an analyst for University of Wisconsin football and basketball games.
He originally came to Milwaukee in 1980 and later served as sports director at WITI-TV6. From 1987-91 and 1995-96, baseball fans enjoyed hearing Jim as the television voice of the Milwaukee Brewers. He has also handled play-by-play duties for Marquette University basketball, Milwaukee Admirals (IHL) hockey and auto races at Wisconsin State Fair Park. Paschke returned to WITI-TV in 1992 to serve as moderator of the station’s popular "Talking Sports" program, which earned an Emmy Award in 1993. This spring, Jim handled play-by-play duties at the NCAA Division III College Baseball World Series on CSTV, as well as Wisconsin Timber Rattlers games for Time Warner Cable Sports.
On October 6, 2007, Jim became a member of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame as “a friend of the game”. He also serves as an honorary MACC Fund board member.
Jim and his wife, Kristen, live in Wauwatosa. His son, Michael, is currently attending college.
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DENNIS KRAUSE
RADIO ANALYST
Dennis Krause grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, listening to Eddie Doucette call Bucks games on the radio. For that reason, he describes being a broadcaster with the Bucks Radio Network as "a dream come true". This is Krause's 12th season as the color analyst for Bucks home games. He first joined the Bucks Radio Network in 1995 as the fill-in play-by-play voice.
Dennis is the Sports Director for Time Warner Sports (cable channel 32), based in Milwaukee and seen in 200 communities in Wisconsin. He hosts the daily “Time Warner Sports Roundtable” and a weekly interview program, “The Dennis Krause Show”.
Krause is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He worked from 1984-87 at WMBD Radio and TV in Peoria, Illinois and from 1987-2003 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, where he won two Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year Awards and a Midwest Emmy.
In addition to his Bucks radio duties, Krause is the host of the pre-game show, "Packers Game Day" on the Green Bay Packers Radio Network. Dennis lives in Thiensville with his wife, Julie, and their two children, Melissa and Zac.
JON McGLOCKLIN
TV ANALYST
Jon McGlocklin enters his 32nd season as analyst for Bucks TV games. Known as the "Original Buck”, McGlocklin has been associated with the Bucks organization since the inception of the franchise in 1968.
McGlocklin averaged 19.6 ppg in the Bucks inaugural season of 1968-69 and went on to play eight years in a Milwaukee uniform. His name appears in five categories on the Bucks all-time career leaders list. Named to the 1969 Eastern Division All-Star team, "Jonny Mac" was a starting guard on the Bucks 1971 World Championship team. For his many on-court contributions to the franchise, his number 14 jersey was retired in 1976 and currently hangs from the rafters inside the Bradley Center. McGlocklin began his NBA career in 1965 with Cincinnati where he played two seasons before moving on to San Diego. An 11-year NBA veteran, he sports a career scoring average of 11.6 ppg.
A college standout at Indiana University, McGlocklin is a member of the Indiana prep basketball Hall of Fame and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in Indiana state history. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in October of 1983, and in September of 1998 was inducted into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Hall of Fame as a "Friend of Basketball".
Following his retirement from professional basketball in 1976, he joined the Bucks front office. Soon after, in 1976, McGlocklin, along with former Bucks broadcaster Eddie Doucette, founded the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund. Serving as president, the fund financed construction of the MACC Fund research center at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has contributed $30 million to the fight against childhood cancer. In June, 2004, after spending the past 18 years as a trustee, he was named trustee emeritus for the Medical College of Wisconsin. McGlocklin also serves on the State Board of Directors for the Fellowship or Christian Athletes.
A member of the business community as well, McGlocklin helped found Bando McGlocklin Capital Corporation in 1980. He was also president and owner of Healy Awards, Inc., a manufacturer of awards and recognition products, in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, from 1997-2006. Jon and his wife, Pam, reside in Hartland. Their son, Shannon, and his wife, Colleen, and granddaughters, Kayleigh and Alannah, also reside in Hartland. Their daughter, Meghan, and her husband, Matt, and granddaughter, Keegan, reside in Wauwatosa.
CRAIG COSHUN
TV PRE-GAME AND POST-GAME HOST & SIDELINE REPORTER
Craig Coshun begins his eighth season covering the Bucks as a pre-game show host and sideline reporter for games on FSN Wisconsin. During the summer, he performs the same duties for Milwaukee Brewers telecasts on FSN.
Coshun is a veteran sportscaster in the state, going on the air for WEAU-TV in Eau Claire for the first time in 1988. Since then, he has worked as the sports director in Madison at WMTV-TV, while also calling several events for the University of Wisconsin and the WIAA State High School Football Championships on FSN. Coshun also calls college basketball and football for the Big Ten Conference and the ESPN family of networks. He has filled in as the play-by-play announcer during his time covering the Brewers and is the feature writer for Inside Wisconsin Sports Magazine.
He is a graduate of UW-Whitewater.