The Career Vision Podcast: How Dave Eanet became the voice of Northwestern athletics and WGN Radio’s sports director

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As WGN Radio sports director Dave Eanet prepares for his last morning shift, he sits down with Michael Piff on the Career Vision Podcast to talk about his career in Chicago media and play-by-play broadcasting. Dave’s career story deserves its own podcast series, but they were able to cover the following:

• What Dave was like in high school
• The broadcasters he listened to growing up
• The beautiful weekend in Chicago that convinced him to go to Northwestern
• His experience as a student broadcaster and working in college radio
• His first job out of college and his early work in radio
• How he got the play-by-play job at Northwestern and bringing it to WGN Radio
• His day-to-day and “coaching tree” as sports director at WGN
• What it was like when he first started working on the morning show and how it evolved over his career
• His advice for aspiring, young broadcasters and anyone wanting to work in sports media

…and so much more. Listen to the full conversation below:

https://serve.castfire.com/audio/7680173/7680173_2025-08-26-213413.64kmono.mp3

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