AUDACY NAMES MIKE HOSS NEW ORLEANS SAINTS PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER ON WWL

In addition to calling Saints games, Hoss will co-host WWL ancillary programming “The Saints Coaches Show,” “The Saints GM Show” and “Fans & the Pro Fridays” alongside Deuce McAllister.  Hoss will alsomake regular appearances on the station’s afternoon show “Sports Talk with Bobby Hebert & Kristian Garic,” beginning with Saints Training Camp broadcasts on July 27.

Mike Hoss has called New Orleans home since 1989, when he landed at WWL-TV after television stops in Virginia, Oklahoma, and Texas. He spent 12 years in the sports department learning under sports director Jim Henderson, WWL Radio’s iconic play-by-play man of Saints football, for 30 years. Hoss anchored weekends and hosted a Sunday night sports show staple in “Fourth Down on Four.” In 2000, he moved from sports over to the news side of WWL-TV, where he worked various shifts from mornings to nights, and also served as the newsroom’s interim news director twice.

In March 2017, after 35 years of local television, Hoss launched Hoss Communications, a storytelling video production company. Also in 2017, Hoss was hired by the Saints to do sideline work for home games. His Superdome sideline work grew in 2019 when he added the job of manager of media relations for ASM Global/LSED, handling the spokesperson duties for the multi-year renovation of the Superdome. 

Hoss succeeds former play-by-play announcer Zach Strief, who returned to the team as an assistant offensive line coach in February.