Mike Donegan

Mike "The Duke" Donegan is an American radio broadcaster based in Nashville, Tennessee.[1]

Career

The broadcast journalist and humorist most recently co-hosted a show on Sirius Satellite Radio and is the stadium announcer for the Tennessee Titans.[2] For many years prior, Donegan was a mainstay on radio shows at Nashville stations WMAK, WKDF and WGFX, including "Big Dave and the Dook", "Ian Case and The Duke", "Carl P. Mayfield & The P. Team" [3] and "The Wake-Up Zone". [4] He was formerly the news director at WSM AM/WSM FM and a feature reporter for WSMV-TV.

Personal life

Donegan was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Genovia and Beck Donegan, retail bakery owners. He is the brother of John Donegan, an engineer, photographer, and music executive and the father of two sons, Barry Donegan, lead singer for Look What I Did and an aspiring politician, and Nick Donegan, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College.

Donegan attended Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee, graduated with a B.A. in social science from George Peabody College and a J.D. from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law where he was a recipient of the Harold C. Streibich Intellectual Property Law Award.

References

  1. Billboard - 10 Apr 1999 - Page 33 Vol. 111, No. 15 "The on-air roster, besides Mayfield, includes Mayfield sidekick Mike Donegan, former WKDF jock Shannon "
  2. "Mike "The Duke" Donegan on Sirius". Sirius Radio. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=6QwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA33&dq=%22Mike%20Donegan%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=%22Mike%20Donegan%22&f=false
  4. "Radio Waves Hot Battleground" (PDF). WMAK. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-11-16.


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