Broadcast Team
MATT MELZAK
Radio/TV Play-by-Play
Matt Melzak has been "The Voice of the Toledo Walleye" since the inaugural 2009-10 season. Matt serves as the lead television announcer for all home games and is the primary radio announcer while the team is on the road. Melzak also hosts the weekly coaches show during the season on Fox Sports Radio 1230, WCWA.
Matt was the Director of Communications and the voice of the Toledo Storm from 2003-2007. In 2006, Matt was selected as a member of the ECHL All-Star Game broadcast team.
A native of Toledo, Melzak has called over 400 hockey games at different levels, including a full season as the voice of Bowling Green State University Hockey. He has also worked for BCSN since its inception calling football, baseball, and hockey telecasts. Matt has also worked for ESPN 106.5 the Ticket, and 94.5 WXKR.
Matt graduated from Toledo St. Francis High School in 1994 and the University of Toledo in 1999.
RYAN SCHUILING
Home Radio Play-by-Play
Ryan Schuiling makes his Toledo Walleye debut as the radio play-by-play announcer for all home games for the 2010-11 season.
Ryan began his career in 1997 as an afternoon drive radio talk show host at WBBL-1340 AM in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During a four-year stint there, he also called play-by-play for the Grand Rapids Area High School Hockey Game of the Week as well as the Grand Rapids Bearcats (Junior A) and hosted a weekly half-hour call-in hockey program ("Face-Off").
Before joining the Walleye, the Ann Arbor, Michigan native had worked over 13 years professionally at various stops in sports broadcasting and media relations, most recently serving as the radio play-by-play voice for Central Michigan University Athletics (football, men's basketball, baseball, softball) over the last three seasons. Ryan previously worked for the Grand Rapids Griffins as a media relations assistant and playoff intermission reporter during the team's 2005-06 AHL North Division Championship season.
Ryan graduated from Grass Lake High School (Mich.) in 1992 and earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree from Central Michigan University in 1996. Ryan resides lives in Lansing, Michigan.
BRUCE JOHNSON
TV Analyst
Bruce is an analyst on BCSN. A native of Oregon, Ohio, Bruce has worked for BCSN since 2007 calling baseball and hockey telecasts.
He is also the owner of Adrenaline Athletic Fundraising, and works with 80 high schools throughout Ohio.
Bruce graduated from Clay High School and the University of Toledo, where he was a four-year letter winner in baseball. Bruce and his wife reside in Waterville, with their two children.
