Tod Castleberry

Tod is a results-oriented broadcast executive, content and brand manager, with over thirty years of broadcasting experience in sports, news talk programming, digital media platforms, and sports marketing. His experience includes a focus on content development and audience engagement, recruitment and development of broadcasting talent, social media engagement, brand engagement, and event production and management. Tod has significant experience consulting current and former professional athletes and media personalities.Most recently he and partner Seth Berenzweig revamped the legendary McLaughlin Group political talk show introducing this iconic show to new audiences over the last three years on commercial and public television as well as digital channels. He continues his long-running partnership with Hall of Fame football legend John Riggins as co-host of their weekly video podcast, The John Riggins Show. He served as a consultant to Riggo on the Range, a TV show featuring Pro Football Hall of Fame running back John Riggins, which aired on the Discovery Network’s, “Destination America.” Prior to Riggo on the Range, Castleberry was program director for WAXY AM 790 and FM 104.3 The Ticket Miami, South Florida’s top-rated sports station in 2012 and 2013. In revamping the station’s line-up and leading the conversion of the station from AM to FM, The Ticket achieved record ratings and revenue under Castleberry. In 2013 he was selected to serve on the first-ever national ESPN Radio Advisory Board. Before joining The Ticket in 2012, Castleberry served as co-host and executive producer of The John Riggins Show, a TV and radio simulcast in afternoon drive in Washington, DC. Other broadcasting stints include Red Zebra Broadcasting, where he was vice president of programming and operations. He was responsible for all programming and technical operations for five stations as well as the Washington Redskins Radio Network of 26 stations. Prior to Red Zebra, Castleberry was the operations manager and program director of Sports Talk 980, WTEM as well as talk stations WTNT AM 570 and WWRC AM 1260. As WTEM operations manager for ten years, Castleberry led the station to record ratings and unprecedented revenue growth. WTEM has been the launching pad for many successful shows that have gone into national syndication, including The Tony Kornheiser Show, The Steve Czaban Show, The Sports Reporters with Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban, and The James Brown Show. Additionally, he was the executive producer of the Washington Redskins play-by-play broadcast and the Washington Redskins Radio Network.