The Massachusetts Broadcasters Association has announced it will honor outgoing Boston Red Sox radio voice Joe Castiglione as its 2024 Broadcaster of the Year at its annual Sound Bites conference to be held November 21 at the Sheraton Framingham in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Castiglione spent 42 years as the radio voice of the Red Sox from 1982 until retiring at the end of the 2024 season. The Hamden CT native began his career while attending Colgate University where he called baseball and football. After receiving a master’s degree in radio and television from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, he would work as a sports reporter and football announcer in Youngstown OH followed by three years in Cleveland calling Cavaliers basketball and Indians baseball games. He was previously been inducted into the MBA’s Hall of Fame in 2015 and won the Baseball Hall of Fame’s annual Ford C. Frick Award earlier this year.

Sound Bites is the MBA’s annual learning, meeting, and mingling event of which provides seminars for sales, programming staff, and managers, and offers a networking reception and dinner program led by the MBA’s annual meeting, industry guests and speakers, entertainment, and the annual Sound Bites Awards, which recognizes the best in Massachusetts radio and television broadcasting over the previous year.

More information on the event and ticketing information can be found at the MBA’s website.