Frank Beckmann (1949 to 2022) was an American radio broadcaster whose career ran almost entirely through WJR in Detroit, Michigan. Born in Kiel, West Germany, he came to the United States as a small child, grew up on the east side of Detroit and Warren, and trained in broadcast journalism at Macomb Community College. He began in news in Alpena in 1969 and joined WJR in 1972, where he moved from news to the sports department and became its sports director. He was the radio play-by-play voice of the Detroit Lions from 1979 and of University of Michigan football from 1981 to 2013, and he also called Detroit Tigers games from 1995 to 2003. He created the all-sports talk show Sportswrap and later hosted The Frank Beckmann Show until he retired in 2021.
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was an American broadcaster and talk radio host on WJR in Detroit, Michigan.
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Frank Carl Beckmann was born in Kiel, West Germany, on November 3, 1949.
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Beckmann died in the evening on February 12, 2022
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was an American broadcaster and talk radio host on WJR in Detroit, Michigan.
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He won the 2010 Detroit Sports Media Association Ty Tyson Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting
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Frank Carl Beckmann (November 3, 1949, February 12, 2022) was an American broadcaster and talk radio host on WJR in Detroit, Michigan.
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