Jimmy Williams

It is my 30th year in broadcasting and as you know it all started for me as a college student at USF when I started to work with Mitchell Mick and Mark - doing baseball and all kinds of things for ISI and later Mutual Radio as a student in 1974 while a sophomore at USF.

From 1977 - just out of college I became a member of WTOG as the youngest News Director in the country in a Top 20 market. Later in 1978 I would become the Executive Producer of live Programming at WTOG at the age of 22. That year I also became the producer of the John McKay Show, and the host of a weekly baseball show on WTOG who became the first station in the country to be able to air games from 8 different teams who trained in the Bay Area.

In 1979 I also began as a producer at a new network, ESPN who I worked for on a variety of projects until 1990. In 1980 I left WTOG to become the Senior VP and Executive Producer of a new regional cable network in Ohio - Ten TV which did all the sports in Cleveland. The Cav's, the Indians and the Browns. Also following Big Ten sports for ESPN as a producer and director.

In 1983 I added to my duties the job of Executive Producer of Sports Ticket a regional cable network that covered the Midwest - mainly Ohio and Michigan. I was in charge of all of the cable productions. The Cav's, Pistons, Red Wings, Tigers, and Indians. We also handled Big Ten Sports. In 1984 as part of my duties I took over the Big Ten Sports Network, as Executive Producer. I directed over 30 football games and 70 college basketball games over a three year time.

In 1985 I left Sports Ticket and became the VP of Special Project of Malrite Communications in that capacity I directed over 200 concerts from Kenny Rodgers to Sting.Also as part of my job I also moved over to WOIO TV - it was the most successful sign on in FOX TV history. I also continued to do Big Ten sports as well as other Cleveland sports.

In 1987 I left Cleveland to head on to Houston where I became the Senior Producer of HSE in Texas where I covered the Astros, the Rockets and all major colleges.

In 1988 HSE won the rights to develop a network in Florida, at that time I became the first ever Senior Producer of Sunshine Network and got it on the air. Later in 1989 I moved over to Sports Channel Florida. I stayed with Sports Channel Florida and Sports Channel America until they became part of Fox Sports Network. I moved from Florida to Washington, DC in 1992 and became the first ever Capitol Chief for Prodigy Online. So I was back in the news business along with keeping my hand in sports with Fox.

In 1995 till the present I started LJC, L.L.C. Media -- my company handles Washington, DC coverage and also we advise many major broadcasting companies and telco's on multi media productions and webcasting.

Also I still write a twice a week sports column that is internationally syndicated by SportsFeed to over 2000 online sites world wide... www.sportsfeed.com with over 2.2 million readers each week.