Sports Media and Broadcasting Innovator, Talent, and Entrepreneur. Mark Fratto

This podcast is possible due to the donations of its supporters. Donate here if you believe in what we do: https://anchor.fm/sportsasajob/support We are joined by Mark Fratto who has tremendous amount of experience. He started Linacre Media, a full-service digital/social media, production services, and public relations consulting company in 2014. Before that he after served as a collegiate athletics administrator in the communications departments of St. John’s University and the University of Maryland for 15 years. Ten-year NCAA Final Four news conference moderator. He also has many experience behind the microphone. Some of his experience behind the microphone includes serving as a public address announcer at Madison Square Garden for New York Knicks, college basketball and New York Liberty games, at Yankee Stadium for New York City FC Major League Soccer contests, and at MetLife Stadium for the New York Giants. Mark also has served as ring announcer for Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions, K2 Promotions, Roy Jones Jr. Promotions and many others and has called fights on HBO, HBO PPV, Showtime, HBO Latino, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, CBS Sports Network, MSG Network, and Ring TV. Episode Timestamp:  2:42 - Mark shares with us information about his business, doing voiceover, and being behind the mic.  4:38 - "When basketball implemented the press, I could only dribble right. That is when my sports career began." We dive into Mark's journey working in sports and navigating the different places he has been.  9:23 - How did Mark's Michael Jordan obsession fuel his career choices? 11:44 - Mark has been a Ten-year NCAA Final Four news conference moderator. We get behind the scenes of what he does and that is how co-host Olivia met him as well. 18:12 - Bob Beretta is a legend in College Sport Administration. Mark was lucky enough to work for him at one point. He credits a lot of his success to Bob. What did he learn from Bob and that he passes on to students today? 24:18 - We go into Mark's experience with ring announcing and being behind the mic.  26:51 - Story of how Mark was fired for his first-ever boxing event on a Tuesday of fight week.  29:31 - Practice is important. Mark would announce sparring at a local boxing club to get the reps in before being under the lights of Madison Square Garden 32:40 - After 15 years working in college athletics, how did the idea of his company Linacre Media come about? You can follow Mark Fratto on Linkedin here Send us your feedback and send us questions on our Social Media Platforms: Twitter @sportsasajob Instagram @sportsasajob Facebook @sportsasajob LinkedIn: Sports As a Job Visit our website www.sportsasajob.com Intro Music credit to ABAPO Music Studios: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwF1OqcNsQEOd0iNu0Yjitg Go sign up for #1 job sports focused job board online and be part of their network. https://www.jobsinsports.com/ make sure TO LET THEM KNOW YOU HEARD OF THEM FROM THE PODCAST. I want them to know we got industry leaders and future stars in this community!