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Glenn Ordway

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Glenn Ordway is an American sports radio and television personality from the Boston area who has retired from regular broadcasting. He began in radio in 1972 at WMLO in Beverly, Massachusetts, moved to Boston in 1975, and gained prominence from 1981 at WRKO as host of the call-in show Sportscall. He spent 13 years on the Boston Celtics radio team, seven of them as number two announcer beside Johnny Most and then, from 1989 to 1996, as primary announcer. At WEEI he became executive sports director and later program manager, was promoted to program director in 1996, and began the program The Big Show, which he hosted until he was let go in February 2013. He returned to WEEI in 2015 and in 2021 announced his retirement from the station. In 2005 he was nominated for a Marconi Award for Major Market Personality of the Year.

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Jimmy Award 1
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1951 1
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is an American former sports radio and television personality
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    Glenn Ordway (born January 16, 1951)
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    is an American former sports radio and television personality
  • Awards and recognition
    In 2005, Ordway was awarded the annual Jimmy Award by The Jimmy Fund.
  • Associated With: Radio, Career
    Ordway began his radio career in 1972 at WMLO, a small station in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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