Scott Uecker

Scott has nearly 40 years of experience in the radio and television industries ranging from on-air work in radio news and sports to management positions in broadcast news, programming, engineering, and station operations.  Most recently, he was an instructor of practice at the University of Indianapolis and the general manager for WICR Public Radio.  Upon his retirement in 2023, UIndy recognized Scott’s more than 25 years in non-commercial educational broadcasting by awarding him assistant professor emeritus status.

Before he left commercial broadcasting for academia in 1997, Scott was the director of news, operations, and programming for Network Indiana.  Under his direction, the regional network grew from 35 affiliates in 1990 to more than 100 radio stations in six years.  He launched the Network Indiana Wire Service and created the widely acclaimed Indiana Sports Talk program which has been in syndication for 30 years.

Scott has had a distinguished sports play-by-play career.  He has called more than 30 Indiana high school state championship games on radio and television, many at the network level.  Since 2005, he has been the radio play-by-play voice of Indianapolis Cathedral “Fighting Irish” football, which is currently heard on Fox Sports 1260 AM, iHeart Media’s all-sports station in Indianapolis.

The Indiana Broadcasters Association has recognized his work four times with the prestigious Spectrum Award for Best Large Market Radio Sports Program.  The Broadcast Education Association presented him with a Faculty Award of Excellence for sports radio in 2011.

Scott is a board member and a past president of the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.  He also serves as the treasurer for the Indiana Debate Commission and a lay member on the state’s Oversight Committee on Public Records. 

He is a past president of both the Indiana Broadcasters Association and the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters.  He has previously served on the boards of directors of the Radio-Television Digital News Association, the Indiana Associated Press, and the National Association of State Radio Networks News Directors Association.

Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-Television from Butler University and a Master of Science degree in Information and Communication Science from Ball State University.