Three years after we profiled her among four women excelling as MiLB broadcasters, Melanie Newman is the 2021 Ballpark Digest Award winner for MLB Broadcaster of the Year, honoring her work delivering the call of Baltimore Orioles games on MASN and 105.7 The Fan. (more…)
A familiar name in the Baltimore Orioles broadcast booth: Melanie Newman became the first female broadcaster in franchise history to call play-by-play for a regular-season game. (more…)
Broadcasters Melanie Newman and Geoff Arnold are moving up to the majors, joining the Baltimore Orioles 2020 broadcast team. (more…)
The Lexington Legends (Low A; Sally League) will host Female Voices: The Women Broadcasting Minor League Baseball at Whitaker Bank Ballpark on March 7, featuring four current MiLB broadcasters. The event will include Kirsten Karbach (Reading Fightin Phils), Jill Gearin (Visalia Rawhide), Melanie Newman (Salem Red Sox), and the Legends’ Emma Tiedemann. (more…)
Melanie Newman will serve as the Salem Red Sox‘s (High A; Carolina League) play-by-play broadcaster for 2019, joining color analyst Suzie Cool in baseball’s first all-female broadcasting booth. (more…)
Kirsten Karbach volunteered at her college radio station in Florida. Emma Tiedemann’s grandfather handed her his headset at a college basketball game in Texas. Melanie Newman pursued photojournalism in Alabama. And Suzie Cool juggled six jobs in Pennsylvania. (more…)
