Episode 39: Episode 39: Rick Broering

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rick Broering who is the radio analyst for NKU basketball, publisher for Musketeer Report and Digital Content Producer at Local 12 in Cincinnati.
Rick knew from a young age that he wanted to maximize his love of sports by eventually becoming a college basketball play-by-play broadcaster. He talks about using a tape recorder to practice calling games starting when he was 11 years old.
Rick talks about growing up in Northern Kentucky and attending Holy Cross High School which is located in the Latonia section of Covington. We talk about some of the influential coaches and teachers that he encountered and learned from at Holy Cross.
After briefly flirting with the idea of playing college baseball, Rick decides instead to attend Northern Kentucky University and major in Radio/TV. Rick ended up graduating from NKU with a double major that included journalism.
We talked about the professors that we both learned from during our time at NKU including Mary Cupito, Brad King and Wes Akers.
Speaking of Wes Akers, the two of us recall getting the chance to receive hands-on experience thanks to him and Bill Farro running a student production that produced live NKU men’s and women’s basketball games.
Rick runs through his extensive resume that includes quite a bit of work while he us still a college student. This includes doing internet play-by-play and running a website with his own blog the covering high school sports.
One of Rick’s goals has been to do sports talk radio and he gets his chance working for a short-lived FM sports station in Cincinnati. That experience helped him gain experience to later be a guest on many different sports talk shows in the market.
Rick eventually lands a position working on a rivals.com site that produces content to cover the Xavier men’s basketball program. He eventually becomes the publisher of the site that now known as MusketeerReport.com (https://247sports.com/college/xavier/)
After a stint as the Kentucky preps beat writer at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Rick lands a full-time at Local 12 WKRC-TV as the digital content producer. This eventually leads to him teaming up with Richard Skinner and the two combine to work on the very popular “Skinny Podcast” that can be found on local12.com (https://local12.com/sports/the-skinny-podcast)
In 2019, Rick is hired by Learfield Sports as an in-season replacement to be the new radio analyst for NKU men’s basketball. He is teamed with longtime play-by-play broadcaster Jim Kelch who Rick credits with teaching him to be make the transition as seamless as possible.
You can follow Rick on Twitter @RickBroering (https://twitter.com/RickBroering), Musketeer Report on Twitter @musketeerreport (https://twitter.com/musketeerreport) and Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12 (https://twitter.com/Local12).
You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 (https://twitter.com/BradyLaber1) please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe
Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm (https://nobodysssafe.fireside.fm) to listen to all episodes on demand and in their entirety.
For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com (https://www.stoveleg.com) or send an email to [email protected]
Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com (https://www.bensound.com)

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rick Broering who is the radio analyst for NKU basketball, publisher for Musketeer Report and Digital Content Producer at Local 12 in Cincinnati.

Rick knew from a young age that he wanted to maximize his love of sports by eventually becoming a college basketball play-by-play broadcaster. He talks about using a tape recorder to practice calling games starting when he was 11 years old.

Rick talks about growing up in Northern Kentucky and attending Holy Cross High School which is located in the Latonia section of Covington. We talk about some of the influential coaches and teachers that he encountered and learned from at Holy Cross.

After briefly flirting with the idea of playing college baseball, Rick decides instead to attend Northern Kentucky University and major in Radio/TV. Rick ended up graduating from NKU with a double major that included journalism.

We talked about the professors that we both learned from during our time at NKU including Mary Cupito, Brad King and Wes Akers.

Speaking of Wes Akers, the two of us recall getting the chance to receive hands-on experience thanks to him and Bill Farro running a student production that produced live NKU men’s and women’s basketball games.

Rick runs through his extensive resume that includes quite a bit of work while he us still a college student. This includes doing internet play-by-play and running a website with his own blog the covering high school sports.

One of Rick’s goals has been to do sports talk radio and he gets his chance working for a short-lived FM sports station in Cincinnati. That experience helped him gain experience to later be a guest on many different sports talk shows in the market.

Rick eventually lands a position working on a rivals.com site that produces content to cover the Xavier men’s basketball program. He eventually becomes the publisher of the site that now known as MusketeerReport.com

After a stint as the Kentucky preps beat writer at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Rick lands a full-time at Local 12 WKRC-TV as the digital content producer. This eventually leads to him teaming up with Richard Skinner and the two combine to work on the very popular “Skinny Podcast” that can be found on local12.com

In 2019, Rick is hired by Learfield Sports as an in-season replacement to be the new radio analyst for NKU men’s basketball. He is teamed with longtime play-by-play broadcaster Jim Kelch who Rick credits with teaching him to be make the transition as seamless as possible.

You can follow Rick on Twitter @RickBroering, Musketeer Report on Twitter @musketeerreport and Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12.

You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe

Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm to listen to all episodes on demand and in their entirety.

For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected]

Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com