Thursday, March 2, 2023

Good Karma Brands West Palm Beach 20th Anniversary

     Good Karma Brands will celebrate its 20th anniversary in the West Palm Beach market on Friday. They have a 20-hour live local broadcast tomorrow on ESPN West Palm 106.3 WUUB-FM. 
     They acquired a West Palm Beach AM frequency and launched ESPN 760 WEFL-AM on March 3, 2003. Their only local program was an afternoon show hosted by Craig Karmazin and Steve Politziner. The rest of their schedule had nationally syndicated ESPN Radio. 
     Evan Cohen would later move from early evenings to host the afternoon show while Karmazin and Politziner shifted to early evenings. Jeremy Marks-Peltz and Jason Pugh would replace them so they could put their main emphasis on Good Karma Broadcasting management at that time. 
     Good Karma Brands decided to buy another West Palm Beach radio station WUUB-FM and made it an FM frequency simulcast of ESPN 760 on February 25, 2013. They flipped it to a sports talk format and branded it ESPN West Palm 106.3. Their original property was changed to ESPN Deportes 760 with a Spanish language sports talk format in September 2013. 
     There have been numerous people that have worked at Good Karma Brands in West Palm Beach. On-air talent includes Craig Karmazin, Steve Politziner, Evan Cohen, Ken LaVicka, Jeremy Marks-Peltz, Mike Goldstein, Lance Davis, Russ Evans, Jason Pugh, Joe Girvan, Debbie "Jeter" Brown, Joe Colella, Alex Petakas, Jordan Sherwood, Chris Kokell, Pat Rooney Jr., Wells Dusenbury, Ginette Javier, Din Thomas, Kristina "Tina" Costanza, Maria Martin, Rick Horrow, Pierre Garcon, Craig Dolch, Chris Dietrich, Jimmie Bell, Josh Cohen and Herb Uzzi. Producers have included John Martin, Jim Rutledge, Brian Rowitz, Kelley Bydlon, Pratik Patel, Kyle Cassandra, Chris Conte, Stone Lebanowitz and Christian Katt. 
     They also had on-air talent that contributed at ESPN West Palm along with their duties at WPTV-TV Channel 5 and WFLX-TV Channel 29. Sportscasters were Ben Becker, Ryan Lieber, Evan Cohen, Emerson Lotzia, Jason Pugh, Joe Girvan, Keli Ferguson, Ian Hest, Theo Dorsey and Tyree Smith. 
     ESPN West Palm 106.3 WUUB-FM, ESPN 760 WEFL-AM, ESPN Deportes 760 WEFL-AM and Good Karma Brands West Palm Beach had their share of upper management along with program directors and directors of content over the past two decades. They have consisted of Craig Karmazin, Steve Politziner, Lance Davis, Mike Goldstein, Evan Cohen, Stephanie Prince and Courtney Reukaff.
     Good Karma Brands has carried local team game broadcasts over the past 20 years. They had the Palm Beach County exclusive radio rights to the Miami Dolphins, Miami Heat, Florida Marlins, Florida Panthers, University of Miami Hurricanes and University of Florida Gators when ESPN 760 launched in 2003. The organization would later become the flagship radio station of the Florida Atlantic University Owls and Keiser University. Good Karma Brands has broadcast high school football games since 2003. In addition, they once announced a weekly Florida State League baseball game of the Jupiter Hammerheads or the Palm Beach Cardinals.

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