A's Broadcasters

Ken Korach

Play-by-Play

The 2023 season marks Ken Korach's 32nd year in the American League, his 28th with the A's, and his 18th as the team's lead radio announcer. In the long history of the A's in Oakland, he has spent the most time doing play-by-play on radio for the A's.

Korach's first MLB job was in Chicago, where he spent four years broadcasting mostly weekend games for the White Sox. He also spent six full seasons in the minor leagues, beginning in 1984 with the Redwood Pioneers of the California League. He also worked in the Pacific Coast League in Phoenix (1986-87) and Las Vegas (1989-91).

Korach was hired in 1985 to broadcast San Jose State football on KCBS Radio and he spent 22 years doing football and basketball on radio and television for Sonoma State, San Jose State and UNLV.

He is the author of Holy Toledo, Lessons from Bill King, Renaissance Man of the Mic, which was published by Wellstone Books in 2013, spent over a month as the number one best-selling baseball book on Amazon.com, and is Ken's homage to the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award recipient. Ken's second book, If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's, co-written by then-San Francisco Chronicle A's beat writer Susan Slusser, was released in the spring of 2019 by Triumph Books.

Korach was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in September of 2019, honored as the 2013 California Sportscaster of the Year, and also recognized as the 2001 Nevada Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. He was inducted in 2017 into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California and in 2003 into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

In partnership with the A's Community Fund, Korach made a joint contribution of $15,000 to support the Oakland Athletic League's mission to grow diamond sports with elementary and middle school OUSD students.

Korach is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and he and his wife Denise are parents of their daughter, Emilee. They make their home in Henderson, Nev. and Pleasanton, Calif.

Vince Cotroneo

Play-by-Play

Vince Cotroneo begins his 18th season in the A's booth, where he again will work with broadcast partners Ken Korach and Johnny Doskow in continuing the team's tradition of broadcasting excellence.

Prior to joining the A's, Cotroneo spent six seasons (1998-2003) as an announcer on the Texas Rangers broadcasts, where he partnered with Eric Nadel on the Rangers Radio Network. He also worked over 20 games on the television side during the 2002 season. Cotroneo joined the Rangers broadcast team in 1998 after spending seven seasons (1991-97) with the Houston Astros.

A 30-year broadcasting veteran, Cotroneo began his career with the Single-A Lynchburg Mets in 1984. He spent the next three seasons with the Double-A El Paso Diablos in the Milwaukee system before moving onto the Triple-A Iowa Cubs for the 1988 season. In his only season with Iowa, he was selected as the National Association's Minor League Announcer of the Year. Cotroneo joined the Astros organization the following season and was the radio voice of the Tucson Toros for two seasons (1989-90) before landing his first Major League job with the Astros in 1991.

A 1983 graduate of the University of Central Florida, Cotroneo and his wife, Veronica, have three children, Dominic, Olivia and Sophia.

Dallas Braden

Television Analyst

Dallas Braden enters his sixth season as an A's television color commentator and field analyst after spending 2017 as a pre- and postgame host for NBC Sports California.

Braden was Oakland's 24th round pick in 2004 and made his Major League debut with the A's in 2007. In his five-year playing career - all with Oakland - he compiled a 26-36 record to go along with a 4.16 career ERA. The highlight of Braden's playing career came on May 9, 2010 when he threw the 19th perfect game in MLB history against the Tampa Bay Rays on Mother's Day.

After retiring in 2014, Braden joined ESPN as a studio and color analyst. He left ESPN in 2017 to join NBC Sports California.

A native of Stockton, Calif., Braden resides in Simi Valley, Calif., with his wife, Meg, their daughters Kinslee, Marlee, Wylee, and his grandmother Peggy.

Chris Townsend

Host & Senior Broadcast Producer

Chris Townsend enters his fifth season as Host and Senior Broadcast Producer for A's Cast. In this role, he is responsible for creating and delivering multimedia A's content across multiple platforms.

Townsend also hosts A's Cast Live, the A's Radio Network pre- and postgame shows and is an in-studio host for NBC Sports California for select broadcasts. Townsend has worked in numerous capacities covering the A’s, from prior roles in both TV and radio.

He joins the A's after working for a number of local sports companies, including Oakland Raiders, 95.7 The Game, KNBR 680 and CSN Sports Bay Area. Chris has lived in the Bay Area for more than 25 years after attending San Jose State and playing baseball for the Spartans.

His grandfather Bob Elliott was the first third baseman in baseball history to win the MVP in 1947. Elliott was a seven-time All-Star during his 15 year career. He also was the manager of the Kansas City Athletics in 1960.

Amaury Pi-González

Play-by-Play (Spanish)

Amaury Pi-González, a pioneer in establishing Spanish baseball play-by-play in the Bay Area, serves as the "Voice of the A's" for Spanish broadcasts. This will be his 31st season doing A's broadcasts, having filled that role from 1978-93, 2009-10 and again the past ten seasons.

Well-known and respected in both English and Spanish media circles, Pi-González enters his enters his 46th season in Major League Baseball in 2023. He began his career in 1977 with the Athletics, and has also broadcast for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Angels. He was the Spanish play-by-play on Television for the Los Angeles Angels on Fox Deportes LA from 2010-2017. Amaury also produces and hosts "Béisbol en la Bahia" for KIQI 1010 AM.

During his tenure, Pi-González has called the 1986 World Series for CBS Hispanic Network, the 1988, 1989 and 1990 Series for the A's, and the 2002 Series for the Giants. The Fremont, Calif. resident previously served five years as sports anchor for Telemundo TV48 in San Jose and was the Spanish voice for the NBA's Golden State Warriors (1992-98) and Los Angeles Clippers. In addition, he was the English voice for the Caribbean World Series for Fox Sports International in 2001 and 2002. Most recently, he called the 2018 American League Wild Card Game for A's radio and provided color commentary for the San Jose Sharks game via their Spanish Radio/TV Sap audio formats on Oct. 20, 2018. Since 2018 and every year since, Amaury has been the Spanish commentary broadcaster for the San Jose Sharks on Hispanic Heritage night.

Born in Cuba, Amaury was inducted into the Cuban Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 and into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum in 2004. He was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2009 and is a cofounder and vice president of the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame. He was named to the New York City Advisory Board of the American Sportscasters Association in 2016. Pi-Gonzalez also called the victory parades for the Giants in 2010, 2012 and 2014, for the Warriors in 2015, and Sharks games in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2016 for Telemundo.

Manolo Hernández-Douen

Game Analyst (Spanish)

Manolo Hernández-Douen is in his 15th season as the Athletics analyst and play-by-play announcer for Spanish broadcasts. He has over 50 years of experience in journalism and has covered a variety of sports during that span. A graduate of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in his native Caracas, Hernández-Douen has covered the Olympic and Pan American Games, world championship boxing matches, and winter league baseball, including the Caribbean Series. He was Venezuela’s Sportswriter of the Year in 1979 and for five seasons was the basketball radio analyst for the Caracas Liga Especial de Baloncesto team.

Since moving to California in 1982, he has covered the NBA and Major League Baseball for several of the highest circulation Spanish newspapers in the United States including La Opinión in Los Angeles.

Most recently, he was the Sports Editor for El Nuevo Herald in Miami from 2000 to 2007, covered feature stories for lasmayores.com (MLB in Spanish) from 2008-17. He's beisbolporgotas.com’s Editor/Writer and is in charge of his own sports podcast, AcciónXGotas.

A proud father of two, Franklin and Cristina, and Kayla's, Khloe's and Liliana’s grandfather, Manolo resides in San Leandro.

Johnny Doskow

Play-by-Play & Host

Johnny Doskow begins his first season in the A's radio booth in 2023, where he will broadcast 65+ games as well as contribute to pregame, postgame, and A's Cast Live. Doskow has been the voice of the Sacramento River Cats since 2001, where he has been behind the microphone for three Triple-A Championships and five Pacific Coast League Championships.

Before joining Sacramento, Doskow was the radio broadcaster for the Fresno Grizzlies (1998-2000), High Desert Mavericks (1996-1998), and Cedar Rapids Kernels (1993-1995). Johnny made his MLB debut in 2012, joining the A's radio booth for a brief stint while Ken Korach was recovering from surgery.

In 2020, Doskow published his book, Goodnight Em: Baseball and Life Through Haiku. The title is a nod to his signature sign-off, as he wishes a goodnight to his daughter, Emily, at the end of each River Cats broadcast. He graduated from the University of La Verne with a bachelor's degree in Communications, Radio and Television.

A native of North Tarrytown, NY, Doskow resides in El Dorado Hills, California, with his wife, Deb, and daughter, Emily.

Jessica Kleinschmidt

Multimedia Reporter

Jessica Kleinschmidt heads into her fifth season covering the A's in 2023. Kleinschmidt contributes content to A's Cast, the A's Radio Network, and the Oakland Athletics' social media channels as a reporter and host.

Kleinschmidt started her sports media career in the minor leagues covering the Reno Aces (Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks) as a reporter. She then started her national career with MLB.com's Cut4 in during the 2017 season as a writer and host.

She spent three years covering all Bay Area teams for NBC Sports Bay Area where she covered the Golden State Warriors who made their way to the NBA Championships and the San Francisco 49ers soon followed suit heading to the Super Bowl in 2018-19.

She became the reporter and beat writer for the A's with NBC Sports California where she covered the team during the 2019 American League Wild-Card Game and the wild-card series in 2020 during the COVID season. Kleinschmidt also covered the San Francisco Giants and Major League Baseball for NBC on the digital and podcast platforms.

In 2022, Jessica was one of just four women to call a Triple-A game across the league when she was on the broadcast for the Aces.

Kleinschmidt also is the host of "Short and to the Point" podcast on the Awful Announcing and The Comeback platforms.

She currently lives in Walnut Creek and spends plenty of time in Reno, Nev./Lake Tahoe with her friends and family.