PEORIA, Ill. — Bradley University alum and voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Charley Steiner returns to the BU campus on Tuesday.
Steiner will be back for the 5th annual Charley Steiner Symposium for Sports Communications at the Caterpillar Global Communications Center.
A panel of industry experts will include Peoria native and fellow Bradley alum, Ralph Lawler.
“For 40 years he was the voice of the Clippers. NBA Hall of Fame. Grew up in Peoria. And, like so many of us, broadcast Bradley basketball games,” Steiner said.
Steiner told WMBD’s Greg and Dan, the sports industry has just exploded in recent years.
“I learn more from the kids, I suspect, than they learn from me. I just want to know where our industry is heading,” Steiner said.
Lawler said young people getting into sports broadcasting now have more opportunity than either of them ever had.
“With the internet and all the electronic things that are available to young kids, there are so many chances for them. So, I think that there are lots of young people that want to get into the business, but it’s from a very different avenue,” Lawler said.
Steiner and Lawler both got their starts in broadcasting in Peoria at Bradley in the 1960s.
Bradley University opened the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communications, the first named school of its kind, in 2015.
Steiner’s symposium Tuesday runs from 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
The event is open to the public.
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