WTGM (Sportstalk 960 AM, The Team) is in its sixth season as the flagship radio radio station for UMES men's basketball broadcasts. For the 2008-09 season, WTGM will carry ALL MEN'S GAMES live.

"The Team," a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, can be heard throughout a large portion of the Delmarva peninsula, as far north as Kent County, Delaware and as far south as northern Virginia.

For its sixth consecutive season, All In Broadcasting.com provides play-by-play coverage of men's and women's basketball games on the internet. Fans can listen to any broadcast, free of charge, by clicking on the "Listen" link to the game located on umeshawks.com.

Each game broadcast will be archived on the site throughout the season, so fans can re-live any game, anytime after its completion. To listen to a live or archived broadcast on-line, please visit the 2008-09 Broadcast Schedule.

Nick Anastos, Director of Broadcasting for Athletics, Play-by-Play Announcer
In the 200708 season The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (UMES) was proud to announce the appointment of Nick Anastos as Director of Broadcasting for Athletics. With the position, Anastos became the new play-by-play voice of the Hawks and supervised all broadcasts on the radio and internet.

Anastos returns for the 2008-09 season as the voice of The Hawk Radio Network, calling all the action for men's and women's basketball, volleyball and basbeall boradcasts on the radio and the web.

Anastos, 25, comes to UMES with a 2005 degree in Broadcast Journalism from Hofstra University. There he was the playby- play voice for the Pride, broadcasting for WRHU 88.7 and covering men and women's basketball, football, lacrosse, baseball and softball. Anastos also hosted a weekly sports show and remote coach's show. In addition to Hofstra, Anastos called the 2005 CAA men's basketball tournament for Serius Satellite Radio.

"Nick has done some very impressive things in his broadcast career and he will be a good fi t for UMES," said G. Stan Bradley, Assistant Director of Athletics for External Aff airs. "We plan to broadcast more sports this season beside men and women's basketball and Nick's versatility will pay off ."

Anastos replaced Ben Wagner, who was with the school for one year. He left to take over the play-by-play of the Buff alo Bisons, a Triple-A affi liate of the Cleveland Indians in Buff alo, N.Y.

More recently, Anastos was a local correspondent for WGAM 900 in Nashua, N.H. He also served as play-by-play announcer for D-II Bentley College, covering football and basketball for NE-10 TV. The past 2007 baseball season Anastos was the play-by-play man for the Nashua Pride, an independent baseball club.

"I am excited to be here and thrilled over the opportunity. I am anxious to get the season underway, There's nothing quite like D-I athletics. The atmosphere is special. I am enthusiastic about traveling again as well. This should be a great season," said Anastos

David Byrd, Color Analyst
David Byrd, Athletic Director and former men's basketball coach at nearby Pocomoke High School, provides color analysis for UMES hoops broadcasts during home games for a sixth consecutive season. Coach Byrd is one of the winningest basketball coaches in Maryland high school history, and possesses a state championship on his resume.

Randy Scott, Asst. Dir. of Broadcasting for Athletics; Color Analyst and Play-by-Play Announcer
Randy Scott, the play by play voice of the nearby Delmarva Shorebirds, a South Atlantic League baseball team, will be a part of several UMES basketball broadcasts in 2008-09, serving as either a color analyst or fill-in play-by-play man. A familiar voice to Hawks fans, Scott was the public address announcer for home games at the Hytche Center four seasons ago.