Live With CDP Sports Talk, Guest: Daniella Ponticelli, Season #4, Episode #50, (November 10th, 2022)

Daniella Ponticelli, is a pre-and post-game radio host and sideline reporter for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders games on 620 CKRM. With that, she is the first woman to work on the official Riders radio broadcasts. Additionally, she works contractually for the CFL club to produce written and video content. In Fall 2022, Daniella became the first female play-by-play announcer for USPORTS football, as the full-season radio voice of the University of Regina Rams. She first broke barriers a year earlier, becoming a full-time play-by-play announcer for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women's hockey program. The radio broadcasts themselves made history, being the first time a private broadcaster (Pattison Media) committed to a full season of women's hockey in Canada. The team went on to win bronze at national in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Following up on that success, Daniella provided play-by-play and rinkside reporting for several games during the 2021-22 SJHL season, including work in the Finals series. A month later, she co-hosted the 2022 SJHL draft, a three-hour livestreamed event, working closely with teams and the league commissioner. ​ Aside from hockey and football, Daniella also hosted a full season of Rattlers Rundown, a 12-episode weekly television show produced by AccessNow Sports during spring and summer 2022. The one-hour show featured interviews with coaches, players and fellow broadcasters, along with analysis of the Saskatchewan Rattlers and the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Pre-pandemic, Daniella worked as a contract on-floor reporter for Saskatchewan Rush Lacrosse games in Saskatoon, broadcast on B/R Live, until COVID-19 halted the season in March 2020. The season prior, 2018-19, Daniella worked with the club full-time as the host and producer of Rush TV along with in-stand announcer. Working solo, she shot, wrote, edited and produced ten 30-minute episodes showcasing players and coaches, fans and the work of Rush partner businesses. With more than a decade of news experience, Daniella strives to tell stories with accuracy, compassion and context. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniella solo anchored Global News Morning in Regina, starting first as the station's community reporter and backfill weather specialist in October 2019. Daniella's versatility stems from her education in the joint Creative Communications degree-diploma program. In 2012, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from The University of Winnipeg while also completing her journalism diploma from Red River College. As a student, Daniella freelanced and took on various embedding opportunities with The Canadian Forces, even taking her to the Northwest Territories. She continued writing military stories as the resident CFB Shilo reporter/photographer for the Brandon Sun out of university. Working professionally ever since, Daniella has gained experience in print, broadcast and digital-first newsrooms. The summer of 2019, she worked casually as a videographer, web writer and social media presenter for CBC Saskatchewan, while also joining the MaxTron video crew as a camera operator at Mosaic Stadium. She was a senior web editor and reporter/anchor for Rawlco Radio in Saskatoon and Regina from 2016-2018. Before that, she worked in television news as a video journalist for CTV Winnipeg and a host/producer for Shaw TV Saskatoon, as well as a print reporter for the Winnipeg Sun. #daniellaponticelli #saskatchewanroughriders #livewithcdp #podcast #talkshow #guest #reginarams #sidelinereporter #playbyplayannouncer #canadianfootballleague #620CKRM #regina #saskatchewanhuskies #womenshockey #youtubechannel #facebooklive #twitter #audio #applepodcasts #googlepodcasts #spotify #anchorfm #iheartradio #amazonmusic #tunein #stitcher #breaker #pocketcasts #radiopublic #linkedin #castbox #barrycullenchevrolet #sponsor