Wayne State University Athletics

Left to right: Sean Baligian, Brady Beedon, Kevin Brechmacher, Tony Ortiz.

Football 8/25/2025 2:44:00 PM Jeff Weiss, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Media Relations

WSU Announces 2025 Football Broadcast Crew

DETROIT - The 2025 campaign will mark a new era in the broadcast of WSU football and basketball games with the launch of the Warrior Sports Network.

Veteran Detroit sports broadcaster Sean Baligian returns for his 17th season calling Warrior football. Baligian, who has been on the Detroit airwaves since 1998, and was on Fox 2 from 2002-18, will serve as the play-by-play announcer for all five home games plus road contests at Findlay, Saginaw Valley, Roosevelt and Northern Michigan. He has also written for The Detroit News and MLive.com. In October of 2007, Baligian was named Best Radio Sports Talk Host by the Metro Times for the people, places and things that make Metro Detroit great. He hosted the SportsWrap show on WJR. In addition, Baligian has worked for USA Hockey and does MHSAA hockey and football. He also served as the play-by-play announcer for a Carolina Hurricanes TV broadcast.

Former Warrior defensive end Brady Beedon will serve as the color analyst for four home games plus road games at Findlay, Saginaw Valley State, Roosevelt and Northern Michigan. He will also handle the Locker Room Report and Senior Spotlight features for WDTK. In addition, Beedon will serve as the play-by-play announcer for Warrior football road games at Wisconsin-La Crosse and at Ferris State. Beedon will also host the Weekly with Wheatley show on Wednesdays prior to a home game at Woodbridge Pub. He graduated from WSU in December of 2019 with a degree in broadcast journalism and received membership into the 2020 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society for maintaining over a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average throughout his playing career. He played in 36 career games, making 11 starts and totaled 40 tackles (26-14), including 10 for loss (7 solo, 6 assisted). He is tied-for-ninth in school history with two blocked kicks and tied-for-26th with four quarterback hurries. The last four seasons (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), Beedon served as the color analyst, while also handling the Locker Room Report and Senior Spotlight interviews.

Kevin Brechmacher, who will return for his 10th season calling the WSU men's basketball games this winter, will serve as a color analyst for the games at Wisconsin-La Crosse and Ferris State as well as the home contest vs. Quincy.

In addition, WWJ Afternoon Anchor Tony Ortiz will serve as the sideline commentator during the five home broadcasts. Ortiz previously served as the sideline reporter for the Comcast CN900 broadcasts of WSU football from 2016 through 2022, as well as the sideline commentator the last two years for Warrior football on FloSports.

Every Wayne State GLIAC football game will be on Flo Sports (flofootball.com), plus the home non-conference contests against Tiffin and Quincy as well as the road game at Findlay. The FloSports broadcast of home games will be via The PreP for the third consecutive year. The PreP will also handle the FloSports stream for all home volleyball matches this fall, basketball games (both men and women) this winter along with the home baseball and softball games in the spring of 2026.

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