Mike Hogewood

Career and roles

Hogewood specialized in play-by-play announcing and sports anchoring. He worked with Raycom Sports and was best known for his broadcasts of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) football and men’s and women’s basketball, as well as for anchoring regional broadcasts of NASCAR’s Nextel Cup races. His work combined live play-by-play duties with responsibilities as an on-camera presenter and interviewer during pregame and postgame coverage.

Broadcasting credits

Over several decades Hogewood freelanced for multiple regional and national outlets. His credits include work for networks and channels that serve local and regional sports audiences. Among the outlets he worked with were:

• FSN South
• Sun Sports
• New England Sports Network (NESN)
• Comcast SportsNet
• HDNet
• Speed Channel

He also served as a sports broadcaster for WFMY-TV Channel 2 from the late 1980s into the early 2000s and produced a local feature series titled "Hog's Heroes" while later working for NBC affiliate WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In addition to college sports, Hogewood anchored Raycom's coverage of NASCAR's Nextel Cup races and was a familiar voice on ACC telecasts (ACC coverage).

Style and significance

Hogewood is remembered as a regional broadcaster who specialized in play-by-play narration and straightforward, viewer-friendly reporting. His experience across multiple networks and regional sports packages allowed him to adapt to different production styles, from in-depth college game coverage to the faster pace of motorsports broadcasts. As a freelance announcer he often stepped into a variety of roles—lead commentator, secondary booth voice, and studio anchor—depending on the event.

Later years and legacy

After a long career in television sports journalism, Mike Hogewood retired in 2013, concluding roughly 26 years as a sports broadcaster in television. He died on September 5, 2018, in Greensboro after suffering a heart attack. Tributes following his death noted his steady presence on regional sports telecasts and his contributions to ACC and NASCAR coverage in the southeastern television market.