Ralph Strangis continues to call NHL hockey on television and radio networks, working as a freelancer for Westwood One, NBC Radio, NHL International and NHL Network.
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16 Facts About Ralph Strangis
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Ralph Strangis's broadcasting and media career started with his first paying radio job in 1977 at KTWN in Anoka, Minnesota and has run on several parallel tracks.
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Ralph Strangis has supervised, written, produced, executive produced, hosted and narrated long and short form documentaries, features, training and corporate videos, podcasts and audio projects, seminars and live events.
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Ralph Strangis's formal acting career began in the early 2000's with stage roles in Dallas area theaters that include – Dr Mitchell Lovell, “Murder at the Howard Johnson's”, Coach Michael, “Rounding Third”, Chef, “Don't Dress for Dinner, Various roles “Almost Maine”, HBO Executive, “Pure Country” Casa Manana, Fort Worth, Texas, and Larry Mann, “Hospitality Suite”, Gilley's Dallas.
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Ralph Strangis has had other roles in numerous short films, independent films and stage plays, and his latest role in Palm Springs at the Palm Canyon Theater as Otto Frank in Diary of Anne Frank garnered him the Coachella Valley's “Desert Theater League Award” for best lead actor in a drama.
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Ralph Strangis's writing career began very early with copywriting and technical writing for long and short educational, training and sports projects in the late 1980's and continues through the present.
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Ralph Strangis has worked as a sports columnist, a biography writer, a features writer for NHL.
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On February 27,2021, Ralph Strangis turned 60 and has dedicated this year, as he continues to battle early stage bladder cancer to completing 60 bucket list items, beginning with a 60-mile bike ride with his daughter on his 60th birthday.
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Ralph Strangis is documenting the items for a “60 in 60” documentary and is updating his progress on www.
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Ralph Strangis is divorced, has one daughter, travels extensively and is an avid reader and theater goer.
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Ralph Strangis later worked on local Public-access television stations doing play by play for a wide variety of high school and college sports.
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Ralph Strangis is especially remembered for his broadcasts of Bloomington Kennedy and Bloomington Jefferson high school hockey that appeared on Bloomington Educational Cable.
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Ralph Strangis shone in his audition, with the perfect ability to complement Shaver's play-by-play with insights from the players and his own intimate knowledge of the game.
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Ralph Strangis was a contestant on the game show Press Your Luck on the episodes that aired on May 28 and 29,1984 and Strangis won $7,431 in cash and prizes.
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Ralph Strangis appears often in commercials for the Stars that air on TV and on the jumbo-tron at the Stars' home arena.
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