Dave Dameshek

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William David Dameshek (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American television writer and radio personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dameshek is best known as the former sports reporter on the syndicated morning radio program The Adam Carolla Show. His birthday is June 11.

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[edit] Early life

Dameshek received his undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from Indiana University. While there, he had a bad experience interviewing Bobby Knight, the coach of the Hoosiers during that time. Dameshek was shot down several times for interviews by Knight while completing a story on him.[citation needed] Dameshek moved to Chicago shortly after college.

[edit] Professional career

Dameshek came to Los Angeles in 1999 to work in comedy writing and radio broadcasting. For the better part of two years, he wrote for various cable television shows, including Fox Sports Net's Sports Geniuses and Comedy Central's Battlebots.

His first big break, though, came in 2001, when he was hired as a writer on Comedy Central's The Man Show, where he would work for the show's third and fourth seasons. Dameshek met his wife, Cindi, while working at The Man Show. The couple has one child, a baby girl, born April 29, 2007.

During that time, Dameshek became the co-host of a Fox Sports Radio show with radio veteran Kent Voss. The show became a national late-night institution for the better part of four months. He also wrote and/or appeared in a handful of Jimmy Kimmel's popular segment on Fox's NFL pre-game show.

Dameshek then moved on to write for the second and third seasons of Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, as well as I'm with Busey and Trigger Happy TV. In 2002, he began writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Along with his main responsibility of working on the show's nightly monologue, he made a number of appearances on the show.

In 2004, Dameshek became the weekly sports correspondent on Los Angeles' FM Indie 103.1's 'Mighty Morning Show', hosted by Dicky Barrett, while making periodic appearances on regional and national ESPN Radio programs.

On January 2, 2006, Dave Dameshek joined The Adam Carolla Show, co-hosting the show with leading man Adam Carolla and acted as the show's official sports correspondent. The show experienced high-end ratings during the majority of its first year, however due to a sudden and unexpected drop in ratings by the end of December 2006, much of the staff, including Dave, were let go from the show. On December 17, 2006, Dameshek wrote on The Adam Carolla Show official message board that he had been fired and would be replaced by Danny Bonaduce.[1] On December 21, 2006 CBS made an official announcement on the addition of Bonaduce as Dave's replacement.[2] Bonaduce was subsequently removed from the show a year later, and went on to hosting his own one-hour program on KLSX.[3]

On January 27, 2007, Dave Dameshek debuted a two hour show on 101.5 Free FM in Phoenix. The show ran on the following day as well and included Jimmy Kimmel as a phone guest. Dave Dameshek's Sports Contraption ran from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Pittsburgh radio station WTZN (now WBZW). The show was supported by a blog that had permission to host podcasts of the show.[4]

The show relied more on untraditional sports personalities as opposed to hardcore sports journalists. Regular guests in the first month included the Pittsburgh Tribue Review's Rob Rossi and John Harris, and the creators of websites Pitt Blather and Mondesi's House.[5] Popular ESPN.com writer Bill Simmons guest-hosted a three-hour stint in April, 2007.[6] The show was broadcast from friend Jimmy Kimmel's house until Dameshek's wife delivered her baby.

In July of 2007, Dameshek left the Sports Contraption and remained in L.A. to continue writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

On November 26, 2007, Dameshek began hosting "The Dave Dameshek Show," a sports-oriented radio talk show similar to the Sports Contraption broadcast by ESPN Radio on 710 AM in Los Angeles, California.[7] The show currently runs weekdays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://adamcarolla.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=2131&st=150&#entry23162
  2. ^ CBS RADIO - Press Center
  3. ^ CBS RADIO - Press Center
  4. ^ http://www.sportscontraption.com
  5. ^ Mondesishouse.com: Mondesi and Dameshek, Live From Jimmy Kimmel's House
  6. ^ ESPN - Page 2 : Bill Simmons Blog Archive
  7. ^ 710 ESPN - Los Angeles - 710 ESPN Relaunches radio station with new afternoon and evening programming
  8. ^ 710 ESPN - Los Angeles - The Dave Dameshek Show

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