Steve Mason (broadcaster)
American sports radio personality
Steve Mason is an American broadcast personality based in Southern California since 1992. He is co-host with John Ireland of the "Mason and Ireland" weekday show on ESPN Los Angeles 710 KSPN and previously hosted the pregame show for the stations broadcasts of the Los Angeles Lakers team until 2010.
Mason's career began on WGOR radio based in Toledo, Ohio. He first moved to Los Angeles in 1992, before working on The Late Late Radio Show between 1996 and 1998. Since then, Mason has been heavily involved in sports talk shows in Southern California, best known for his work alongside John Ireland.
He is also a regular contributor on Good Day L.A. on FOX 11 in Los Angeles.
Early life
Mason was born Steven Macionsky in Altoona, Pennsylvania and raised in Maumee, Ohio. He graduated from Maumee High School in 1983 chosen as "Most Likely to Succeed" by his friends on the yearbook staff (there was no actual student vote). In 1982, he was chosen as the outstanding high school student in the state of Ohio and was awarded a full academic scholarship to Bowling Green University, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. In 1986, he was elected to the National Board of Directors for Sigma Phi Epsilon, serving a one-year term.
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