23 Facts About George Plaster

George Plaster was born on May 7,1959 in Nashville, Tennessee and is a former collegiate sports administrator and a sports broadcasting personality.

George Plaster previously served as associate athletic director at Belmont University.

In May 2019 it was announced that Plaster would be leaving Belmont and returning to hosting a weekday sports talk program, to be entitled SportsNight, beginning in July 2019 on WSM-AM.

George Plaster said he intended to return to sportscasting with a podcast to be announced, possibly around Labor Day.

George Plaster had hosted the show since shortly after its 2003 inception until leaving WGFX in September 2011, and for ten years prior, hosted SportsNight, a similar program on WWTN-FM.

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When Cumulus Media agreed to purchase WWTN from Gaylord Entertainment Company, George Plaster invoked a contract loophole which voided his contract with WWTN.

George Plaster left WWTN in July just as the sale to Cumulus was completed, having been employed by the station since the early 1990s.

George Plaster was under the assumption the clause had been voided along with the contract, which had been signed by Gaylord Entertainment, not Cumulus.

George Plaster was allowed to join his co-hosts on WGFX, where he continued to broadcast until September 16,2011.

Meanwhile, SportsNight continued at WWTN without George Plaster, and was later moved to WNFN-FM, where it continued to compete with The Sports Zone until March 13,2006.

In July 2006, after three months of earning respectable ratings airing ESPN Radio programming against George Plaster, WNFN launched The Sports Guys, a new afternoon show hosted by Nashville sportscaster Robert "Bob" Bell and former Middle Tennessee State head football coach Boots Donnelly, although Bell's declining health later caused him to leave the program.

George Plaster continued his work on TV, and returned to radio on July 23,2012 as co-host of Baptist Sports Medicine SportsNight at the Game from 3:00 to 6:00 PM on 102.

In February 2006, George Plaster began to experience difficulties with his voice, which soon became serious enough that he was forced to curtail his on-air activities.

George Plaster began receiving voice therapy at the Vanderbilt University Voice Center.

George Plaster did so, conducting an interview with his good friend, former NBA and Vanderbilt center Will Perdue, who now serves as a color analyst for ESPN Radio and Westwood One.

George Plaster eventually returned to his standard schedule of three hours daily.

George Plaster served as the color analyst, opposite Bob Jamison, for the Nashville Sounds baseball club in the 1980s, occasionally filing in on play-by-play.

George Plaster was the play-by-play voice for Memphis State for one season and Vanderbilt athletics for three seasons as well as the Nashville Kats Arena Football League franchise.

George Plaster was featured on Mark Wills' 2003 single "And the Crowd Goes Wild", from his album of the same name.

In 2006, George Plaster was named to the inaugural Talkers Magazine "Talkers 250" list, highlighting the 250 most influential talk radio hosts in America.

George Plaster was inducted into the Distinguished Alumnus Hall of Fame in June 2008.

George Plaster's late father was a close friend of the late former Nashville Vols, Vanderbilt, and Georgia Bulldogs announcer Larry Munson.

George Plaster is proud of his Greek-American heritage and makes frequent reference to it, being for a long time one of three Greek-Americans prominent in Nashville broadcasting, the others being former WSMV news anchor Demetria Kaledemos and longtime WTVF anchor Chris Clark.