Steve Stewart
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Former Cincinnati Reds radio announcer Steve Stewart was hired by the club on February 11, 2004, and joined Marty Brennaman for half of that season's broadcasts while filling in for Joe Nuxhall. He spent the following two seasons with the Reds, but the Reds announced on August 19, 2006, that they would not renew Stewart's contract for the 2007 season. They later replaced him with Marty's son, Thom Brennaman.
In December, 2006 he was rumored to be one of the finalists for the open position as the play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers, along with Ted Robinson and Andy Masur.[1] He was also rumored to be a finalist for a position with the San Diego Padres. However, Stewart failed to land either position; Masur ended up with Padre position while Brian Anderson won the Brewers job.
Stewart is a 14-year baseball broadcast veteran. Prior to joining the Reds, Stewart worked for WBAL-AM 1090 in Baltimore, the flagship station of the Orioles, covering 25-30 games a year for 4 seasons as the team's third radio broadcaster. He filled in as a sports anchor at WBAL-TV 11 and broadcast the morning drive sports reports on WBAL Radio. In 2002, Stewart filled in as play-by-play announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals on KMOX Radio.
Stewart worked 4 seasons in the minor leagues calling games for the Class AAA Calgary Cannons on CKO and CJSW Radio (1987) and the Class AAA Richmond Braves on WRNL Radio (1993-95). He also worked 4 seasons broadcasting baseball for the University of South Carolina on WVOC Radio (1996-99). A St. Louis native, Stewart began his broadcasting career in 1981 as the announcer for Southern Methodist University football and basketball broadcasts on campus radio station KSMU in Dallas. His career also includes stints as a play-by-play broadcaster for Major Indoor Soccer League teams in Dallas and St. Louis, Randolph-Macon College football, Virginia Union University basketball and Colonial Athletic Association basketball. He also worked as the network host for University of South Carolina men's basketball and football broadcasts.
Stewart has broadcast University of Maryland men and women's basketball games and spent 5 years as a television news and sports anchor/reporter in Nebraska, Illinois and Missouri. In 1985 Stewart graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in broadcast news, with a concentration in political science.
He currently hosts the Bad Boy Blog.
