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TONY SCHIAVONE

Tony Schiavone is the Sports Director of WSB Radio in Atlanta and can be heard anchoring sports each morning on Atlanta's Morning News with Scott Slade.

His duties during his years at WSB have included the host of the Pre and Post game shows on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network, and color commentator on the Atlanta Hawks Radio Network.

He is also the Sports Anchor for the Bill and Joel Morning Show on WDUN in Gainesville, GA and the Sports Anchor for WHIO in Dayton, Ohio.

He also is a member of the Georgia Bulldogs Football Radio Network working on the post game show during both home and away games, hosting the Mark Richt Report five days a week, and writes and produces the Best of the Bulldogs which won has won various award by both the Associated Press and the Georgia Association of Broadcasters as well as the daily feature "The UGA Sports Minute." He also is the producer/on-site engineer for the UGA Men's' Basketball broadcasts, and in charge of the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network website as part of wsbradio.com.

Prior to his years in radio in Georgia, he was the host of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT and WCW Thunder on TBS. He spent 11 years with Turner Broadcasting as TV host and was the host of Monday Nitro when it was consistently one of the top rated weekly cable television programs. He was also the host of WWE Wrestling Challenge and hosted WWE SummerSlam in 1989 and WWE Royale Rumble in 1990.

Schiavone has appeared in the motion picture "Ready to Rumble," released by Warner Brothers in 2000, and appeared in the HBO series Arliss in 1998.

Schiavone began his broadcasting career doing high school football and basketball play-by-play on WTON in Staunton, Virginia while being a student at James Madison University.

Upon graduation, he was hired as the play by play broadcaster for the Greensboro Hornets of the Class A South Atlantic League. He then spent four years as the play by play broadcaster of the Charlotte O's of the Class AA Southern League.

He and his wife of 27 years, Lois, have five children Matt, Laurie, Chris, Jon and Tim; two grandchildren: Olivia and Lizzie and one longtime dependable Cocker Spaniel of 15 years named Shortstop.

JUDD HICKINBOTHAM

Judd was born and raised in Lilburn. He attended Arcado Elementary, Trickum Middle and Parkview High Schools, before heading off to the University of Georgia.

In Athens, Judd graduated with a degree in Broadcast News, and has worked in radio for the last nine years in Atlanta and Gainesville.

He has thoroughly enjoyed doing just about every on-air job possible, including talk show host, sportscaster, newscaster, reporter and play-by-play man. He has broadcast high school sports all over north Georgia. He has also broadcast University of Georgia baseball games, as well as football and basketball broadcasts for Furman University.

Judd's passion is baseball, and he can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon or evening than at the ballpark. And he's so proud to be broadcasting in his home county of Gwinnett.