Jon Rish (born 1973) is an American former radio personality, best known for his work in the
Boston
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area.
Career
Rish was a radio host for
WEEI-FM in Boston.
Rish attended
Boston College and began his sportscasting experience on
WZBC, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area.
Rish's broadcasting career began in 1993, when he was an intern on Boston sports radio host
Dale Arnold's WEEI program. He subsequently broadcast college sports on several Boston-area stations. From 2006 to 2012, Rish hosted the Boston Red Sox pre and post game show on the
Boston Red Sox Radio Network. Rish served in the Red Sox broadcast booth alongside
Joe Castiglione since 2008, sharing time with Dale Arnold and
Dave O'Brien.
Arnold and Rish replaced
Glenn Geffner, who left after the 2007 season for the
Florida Marlins radio booth. Rish primarily announced games when O'Brien was away on assignment for
ESPN
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.
On June 10, 2010, Rish filled in on the NESN TV broadcast for
Don Orsillo who fell ill just before the start of the Red Sox game at Cleveland.
On April 8, 2013, after being asked to take a major pay cut by WEEI owner
Entercom, Rish announced that he was leaving not only WEEI but the radio business as well, saying he had been "accepted into a training program to become a software developer and will begin that career path." His last assignment for Red Sox Radio Network was for the game between the
Oakland Athletics
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and the Red Sox on April 24, 2013.
In August 2013, Rish was chosen by
NESN to serve as a substitute color analyst for
Boston Red Sox
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games while regular analyst
Jerry Remy was on leave following the arrest of his son,
Jared Remy, for murder. Rish also served as substitute Boston Red Sox play-by-play announcer on NESN in July 2014 while regular announcer
Don Orsillo was on vacation.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American radio personalities
Boston Red Sox announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters