19 Facts About Mike Hogewood

Michael Ashley Hogewood was an American sportscaster.

Mike Hogewood was a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and sideline reporter.

Mike Hogewood was primarily associated with Raycom Sports.

Mike Hogewood was best known for his work on ACC football games, ACC men's and women's basketball, as well as for anchoring Raycom's coverage of Nextel Cup NASCAR races.

Mike Hogewood became a freelance announcer after nearly 15 years of experience as a network announcer, and later sports director, for the ABC affiliates WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina, and later at CBS affiliate WFMY-TV Channel 2 in his hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Mike Hogewood briefly worked for NBC affiliate WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the early 2000s on a series called Hog's Heroes.

Mike Hogewood was host of several television sports reporting shows, including: ACC Football Today, ACC Basketball Today, Saturdays in the South, and the Emmy Award winning ACC All Access.

Mike Hogewood was well known for his work on NASCAR races for TNN Sports, and for Turner Sports.

In 1992, while working at a local TV station in Greensboro, Mike Hogewood interviewed Richard Petty during his final season in the Cup series as part of his retirement tour.

Mike Hogewood was primarily a pit reporter for many Cup, Busch and Truck races on TNN starting in 1997, however if the Busch Series had a standalone race, Mike Hogewood would sometimes call play-by-play of the Busch race.

TNN Sports lost NASCAR rights after the 2000 season, however Mike Hogewood remained with the network in other capacities through 2002.

Mike Hogewood worked on NASCAR for Turner Sports at the same time as he worked for TNN, starting in 1997, as Turner had a production partnership with CBS at the time.

Mike Hogewood was a pit reporter for Turner's Cup, Busch and Truck series races, as part of the primary broadcast team.

However, despite Turner forming a partnership to produce NASCAR races on NBC for half of the Busch and Cup schedules starting in 2001, greatly increasing the number of races produced by Turner, Mike Hogewood was replaced by Dave Burns on the primary Cup and Busch broadcast team, demoting Mike Hogewood to some standalone Busch events on TNT.

Stewart had worked alongside play-by-play man Allen Bestwick and the primary Turner NASCAR crew on a Busch race in each of 1999 and 2000, while Mike Hogewood had been in his usual spot on pit road, but in 2001 with the Cup crew taking the weekend off, Stewart worked alongside Mike Hogewood instead.

Mike Hogewood was a broadcaster for TNN Sports' coverage of Monster Jam from 2000 to 2002.

Mike Hogewood covered events for the Big South Conference, and did commercials for Carolina Kia in the Triad.

Mike Hogewood retired from ACC football in 2013 after 26 years as a sports broadcaster.

Mike Hogewood died on September 5,2018, at the age of 63 of a heart attack in his sleep.