Florida Panthers Drop PA Announcer

     Bill Murphy will not by the Florida Panthers public address announcer at home games for the 2015-16 campaign. The team will hold a tryout for the position along with a new national anthem singer on August 26 at BB&T Center.
     Murphy was the public address announcer of Florida Panthers home games for over 13 seasons. He has been known in South Florida as a disc jockey for several radio stations. Murphy had a long reign as the afternoon host on Big 106 WBGG-FM and has recently worked as a production director and weekend host on Magic 102.7 WMXJ-FM.
     He replaced John DeMott who was the public address announcer in the first five seasons with the team when they played at Miami Arena. DeMott moved up with the Panthers to Sunrise where he did it for two more seasons.
     Longtime University of Miami public address announcer Jay Rokeach was brought in to replace Murphy back in the late 2000s when Murphy was shifted to the game operations arena host spot. That just lasted a couple of months and Murphy was brought back to take over public address announcer duties.