I have been at the Radio Results Network since 1994. I have been the network news director ever since that day, and I took over the local sports broadcasting duties a short time later.

I graduated from Robichaud High School in Dearborn Heights, MI, in 1989, and then graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1994. I started my radio career while I was in college, and was also the editor of the student newspaper North Wind. After a brief stay at a radio station in Ann Arbor, I came back to the Upper Peninsula and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

It's an important job to report the news to you every day, and I'm lucky to have people like Don Curran and Mindy Wills on my news team. If there's a news story that you'd like to see covered, E-Mail me at jack@radioresultsnetwork.com.

My real love is sports broadcasting. I mean, I get to sit there for two or three hours, have a hot dog (or two), and watch kids play for the love of the sport. And I get to let everybody know back home how the game is going, and my goal is to make it feel like they are actually at the game while they're listening.

I'm especially proud to be the Voice of Little League Baseball. Those 50 games we broadcast every summer is sports in its purist form, in my opinion. I'm also proud to be the Voice of the Escanaba Eskymo baseball team, and the Voice of the Escanaba Eskymo hockey team. Hockey is my favorite sport (look me up on MySpace and you'll see). I've broadcast 363 Eskymo hockey games over the last 16 years and I am looking forward to this 2010-11 season.

I enjoy broadcasting the high school and youth sporting events here in Delta County because I get to meet a lot of good people. I have made some great friends over the years just by broadcasting Little League games or high school events. It's a great feeling when someone comes up to me, years after they graduated from high school, and we talk about "the good ol days".

This is one of the main reasons why I've never really pursued a radio job in a bigger city. Plus. I hate driving in traffic.

I think that any success I've had in sports broadcasting is because I've been able to get to know the kids who are playing the games. They are not just uniform numbers. I like knowing a little about the guys or gals who I'm broadcasting for.

Besides the radio, I have been dragged kicking and screaming into the world of the Internet. I guess I'm old-fashioned in some ways and focus really hard on what I put onto the air. But, the Internet is important nowadays and I am slowly getting used to it. I've even had a blog for over a year now, so check it out!

For the last five-plus years, I have been in charge of the high school sports sections on rrnsports.com. Check it out if you're looking for scores, schedules and other information about U.P. high school teams.

I guess that's about all I can think of to write in this section. Thanks for listening to my broadcasts over the years and if you have any suggestions, let me know.

Jack Hall