Broadcast Team
Watch Storm TV
The Seattle Storm and KING TV have partnered again for the 2011 season to air games on KONG TV and Universal Sports. The Storm will provide all production for the televised games through First Team Media, led by former FOX Sports Net Northwest Vice President Bill Kaczaraba. Stay tuned for a complete schedule of games.
KONG TV is available over the air on cable channel 6. Universal Sports airs on KING TV’s digital channel 5.2 and on cable channel 115.
Listening to the Storm Broadcast
KPTK AM 1090, a CBS Radio station, is the new home of the Storm's radio broadcast for all 34 regular-season games and the postseason. The stronger radio signal should make it easier for Storm fans to follow all the action on the radio throughout the 2011 season.
Storm TV & Radio Broadcast Team
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Dick Fain | Play-by-Play Announcer
Dick Fain is entering his fourth year as the "Voice of the Storm." Previously, Fain was the sideline reporter as well as fill-in play-by-play and color analyst from 2002-06 and was part of the broadcast team during the Storm's WNBA championship run in 2004. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1996 with a degree in broadcast journalism after attending Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, where he continues to serve as a boys basketball coach. A lifelong resident of the Seattle area, Fain and his wife Janna live in the Seattle suburb of Normandy Park.
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Adia Barnes | Color Analyst
Former Storm player Adia Barnes is in her fifth season as the color analyst for the Storm's radio broadcast. The seven-year WNBA veteran spent the 2002-04 seasons in Seattle. Drafted in 1998 by the Sacramento Monarchs, Barnes played with four different teams and finished her career averaging 3.8 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. Barnes' previous broadcast experience includes working for NBA TV.
Barnes Page
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Bill Kaczaraba | Storm TV Executive Producer
Bill Kaczaraba is the CEO & managing partner of First Team Media, a national production and content company based in Seattle. A three-time Emmy award winner, Kaczaraba was most recently the vice president of content and executive producer of FOX Sports Net Northwest. In that role, Bill was in charge of game productions and programming for the Seattle Storm, Sonics and Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. Bill is also the former News Director at Belo's NorthWest Cable News and Tribune's Q13 FOX. He spent 13 years at CNN and was the youngest executive producer in the history of the network. At CNN, Bill won the Gold Medal at the New York International Film & Television Festival for Best Newscast. In association with Gametapes LLC, Bill will work with the Storm organization to develop the Storm Media Networks and head up the productions of the team's game broadcasts.
