She met Baskin when he visited his alma mater, Kent State University, where Pflum attended before transferring to AU in 2021. While looking for jobs after her AU graduation and seeing one at The Fan, Pflum reached out to Baskin, whom she said helped her get the job. Pflum’s radio job also allows her to make connections with several people in the sports broadcasting business, such as Andy Baskin, a former Channel 5 sports anchor who has a radio show on The Fan, “Baskin and Phelps,” with Jeff Phelps, a former host of the pregame and postgame shows for the Cleveland Cavaliers. That could mean she will eventually be the next Witham, who has gone on to become a Major League Soccer sideline reporter or the next Allie LaForce, an Ohio native who does sidelining reporting for NBA games or even Erin Andrews, probably the best-known sideline reporter who does mostly NFL games. “Radio is developing my sound and the way I present things,” added Pflum, “so that way when it’s time to get back into television, I feel I will be more prepared and have a better foundation moving forward.” “I would basically be doing everything a sideline reporter does, but not presenting it on TV - I’m presenting it on our website. “That would be working toward being a sideline reporter,” Pflum said. That would involve recording soundbites during games to send to the station to use on the radio and post a short story to the station’s website after games. ![]() Once training camp for the Browns starts this summer, Pflum said she hopes to move into an off-site reporter job the station will add to cover Guardians games when the current off-site reporter can’t because of the Browns. Her main job is to give sports news updates throughout the day and support the radio station’s show hosts. “Ever since then, that’s what I’ve wanted to do,” added Pflum, who is working her way toward that dream with her first sports broadcasting job after her AU graduation (December 2022) at Cleveland sports radio station WKRK, 92.3 FM, also known as The Fan. “I just remember looking at her and thinking, ‘She has the coolest job in the world.’ He just had this insane, cool moment and she gets to talk to him right after it. “There ended up being a walk-off home run in the 12th inning and I saw that player talking to the sideline reporter, who was Katie Witham,” Pflum said. ![]() Recent Ashland University graduate Mackenzie Pflum has wanted to be a sideline reporter since she was 12 years old.Īt that age, she had attended a Cleveland Guardians (Indians back then) baseball game with her family and, due to a long rain delay, they were able to make their way down to the front row by the time the game resumed because so many fans had left.
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