Name Ray Didinger Movies Football America Children David, Kathleen TV shows Eagles Post Game Live | Spouse(s) Maria Gallagher Television Eagles Post Game Live Role Sportswriter | |
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Occupation Sportswriter, Sportscaster Awards Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly Books The Eagles encyclopedia, One Last Read, The Ultimate Book of S, Football America: Celebrati, The Professionals: Portraits Similar People Michael Barkann, Steve Sabol, Howard Eskin | ||
Ray Didinger | The Eagles Encyclopedia with Mark Leibovich | Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
Ray Didinger (born September 18, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an award-winning American sportswriter, author, screenwriter, radio personality, sports commentator, and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Writer's Honor Roll).
Contents
- Ray Didinger The Eagles Encyclopedia with Mark Leibovich Big Game The NFL in Dangerous Times
- Ray day with ray didinger episode 1
- Early life and career
- Author
- Radio
- Sportswriter
- Television
- Personal
- Awards and honors
- References
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Early life and career
Born to Raymond and Marie Didinger, and raised in Folsom, Pennsylvania, Didinger graduated from St. James High School in 1964. He received a B.S. in Communications from Temple University in 1968. His nickname was Nauga, after the animated character used in commercials for Naugahyde. Ray spent four years doing sports radio for WRTI and served as the station's Sports Director.
Author
In 1990, Didinger wrote The Super Bowl: Celebrating a Quarter-Century of America's Greatest Game. He co-authored Football America: Celebrating Our National Passion along with Don Shula in 1996 and co-wrote The Eagles Encyclopedia with Robert S. Lyons in 2005. Didinger also co-wrote The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies with Philadelphia radio personality Glen Macnow in 2009.
Radio
Didinger co-hosts a popular radio show every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WIP-FM in Philadelphia with co-host Glen Macnow. The show features Didinger and Macnow discussing all aspects of what is going on in Philadelphia sports. It is also common to hear the two talk about movies, since both are avid movie fans. Didinger and Glen Macnow co-wrote a book entitled "The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies", featuring what they both considered the all-time best in cinema sports dramas, published and released in 2009.
Sportswriter
Didinger covered the National Football League for The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Philadelphia Daily News for more than 25 years. He was named Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 1995, he won the Dick McCann Memorial Award for long and distinguished coverage of pro football, and his name was added to the writers' honor roll in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Television
Didinger is currently a full-time member of Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, writing articles and appearing on-air in a variety of roles, most prominently in Eagles Post Game Live. Previously, Didinger was a senior producer with NFL Films in Mount Laurel, New Jersey until he was bought out of his contract in February 2009. He has won four Emmy Awards for his work as a writer and producer on the weekly series NFL Films Presents and the Turner Network documentary Football America.
Personal
Didinger is married to Philadelphia magazine restaurant critic Maria Gallagher and has two children David and Kathleen. He also has an English Bulldog named Mack. Ray and his wife are very active with HeavenSent Bulldog Rescue (“HeavenSent”) a New Jersey non-profit corporation, dedicated to the rescue and placement for adoption of Bulldogs.