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“CHANGING THE GAME”
NASO Medallion Award
Jim Host, founder of Host Communications and an invaluable advocate in the early days of the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO), was chosen as the 2022 NASO Mel Narol Medallion Award recipient. The award will be presented in Denver, Colo., on Tuesday,...
Pat & Jim Host |Featured in TOPS in Lex, August 2020 Issue
Jim Host Interview with Kenny Rice | Episode 77
On episode 77 of the Horse Racing Show, Kenny Rice talks with Dr. Stuart Brown of Keeneland and sports marketing pioneer Jim Host, beginning at 14:05.
Book Review from UK Announcer, Carl Nathe
Jim – Just wanted to tell you – I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book, “Changing the Game” – To say you have lived an incredible life is a major understatement! A fascinating read – Well done by you and your collaborator, Eric Moyen – In addition, I recently listened...
WUKY SportsPage Episode 23: Collegiate Sports Marketing Legend Jim Host
Written By ALAN LYTLE • JUL 10, 2020 The WUKY SportsPage This week on the WUKY SportsPage Keith Elkins talks with sports marketing pioneer Jim Host; founder of Host Communications, and onetime radio voice of the Kentucky Wildcats. Among his many accolades, Jim is a...
Host with the most: Ashland native details role in rise of college sports industry in book
By ZACK Klemme, The Daily Independent LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) - Jim Host recently moved. The Ashland native and his wife, Pat, are both in their 80s, and they “downsized dramatically” to a house in Lexington which better fits their capability to take care of it, Host...
Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Jim Host Edition
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the Big Blue Nation, and welcome to the Tuesday Morning Quickies. Today, I want to highlight an article over at the Lexington Herald-Leader about an new book by Jim Host, founder of Host Communications, that sounds like a real...
Want a wild UK coaching search story? Jim Host’s new book reveals a doozy.
If you like “behind the curtain” Kentucky Wildcats sports stories, you will enjoy a new book from Lexington’s Jim Host. In “Changing The Game: My Career In Collegiate Sports Marketing,” Host reveals some of the inside information he gleaned during his company’s many...
Act with vision and integrity with CEO Jim Host
Jim Host is credited with creating sports marketing and changing the face of collegiate athletics. He’s also known for being a visionary who acts with integrity. Jim joins Patrick in the lab to discuss how to make a mark on the world, invest in others, and change an...
Tom talks with Tom Hart, Larry Vaught, and Jim Host.
LESSONS FROM JIM HOST’S NEW BOOK, “CHANGING THE GAME”
Earlier this year, Jim Host, founder of Host Communications and one of the pioneers of college sports marketing released his autobiography “Changing the Game”. An absolute must-read for anyone with an interest in the business of college sports, the book has many...
Changing the Game, a book about Jim Host
I have just finished reading a recently published book written by Eric Moyen about Jim Host called, “Changing the Game.”Many of you know who Jim Host is and some of the things he has done. I know Jim from our college days at the University of Kentucky back in the late...
BOZICH | Jim Host’s college sports marketing playbook is essential reading
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Whenever college sports return, they will require a playbook. A playbook — long before the games, practices and competition resumes — on how to put fans at ease, how to rebuild their following and how to market their product The life’s work...
Jack talks with the sports marketing and broadcasting legend.
UPK Releases Memoir of UK Alum and Collegiate Sports Marketing Pioneer Jim Host
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 27, 2020) — It’s safe to say that many Kentuckians and collegiate athletic fans are no stranger to the name Jim Host. In his new book, “Changing the Game,” written with Eric A. Moyen and published by the University Press of Kentucky, Host details...
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