{"id":453665,"date":"2026-09-04T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:28:14","slug":"ducks-name-cooney-play-by-play-announcer-for-ducks-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453665\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Name Cooney Play-By-Play Announcer for Ducks Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks named today Aaron Cooney Play-by-Play Announcer for the club\u2019s 24\/7 audio network Ducks Stream, the most comprehensive team-focused audio network in the NHL. Cooney will join Color Analyst Emerson Etem and Host Alexis Downie in the Anaheim Ducks audio broadcast booth for all pre-, regular and postseason games hosted on Ducks Stream.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re so pleased to name Aaron as the new radio voice of the Ducks,\u201d said Ducks President Aaron Teats. \u201cHe is a bright new voice in the NHL and has earned this opportunity.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Cooney joins the Ducks broadcast team after spending the past three seasons as the television and radio play-by-play broadcaster of the San Diego Gulls, Anaheim\u2019s primary development affiliate in the American Hockey League. He also called 15 games on Ducks Stream the past two seasons and the First Round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, filling in for longtime Ducks voice Steve Carroll. He made his NHL broadcast debut with the Ducks Jan. 23, 2025 against his hometown Pittsburgh Penguins at Honda Center.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Carroll retired last season after spending 50 years in broadcasting, the last 27 with the Ducks. He was inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame on Jan. 13, 2026.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In his role with the Gulls, Cooney provided play-by-play for all of the team\u2019s home and road games, oversaw the club\u2019s Gulls All Access magazine-style show on local network television, hosted a team-focused podcast and served as a contributor to the club\u2019s digital platforms. He also represented the Gulls at Signature Events and a plethora of community events that help connect the team to the community.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to join a first-class organization in the Anaheim Ducks and I\u2019m extremely grateful for the opportunity to call games for Orange Country,\u201d said Cooney. \u201cI was lucky enough to experience the loyalty and passion of Ducks fans firsthand during the team&#8217;s Stanley Cup Playoffs run last season and I look forward to sharing many more special moments with the fanbase in the future. It\u2019s an exciting time for Ducks fans and I can\u2019t wait for the season to start to be part of it all with Emerson, Alexis and the entire Ducks Stream team.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Cooney spent one season in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings in their public relations department during the 2022-23 campaign after he served as the Gulls\u2019 Director of Communications and Broadcasting for two seasons (2020-21 &amp; 2021-22). In his front office role for the Gulls, he oversaw external media and public relations while leading its broadcast department and its television and radio network initiatives.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Cooney spent nearly eight years with the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) as the team\u2019s Director of Broadcasting and Media Relations from 2013-21, where he called the club\u2019s 2017 OHL championship and Memorial Cup run. He oversaw all play-by-play commentary for home and away games while managing day-to-day communications needs, voicing junior games for prominent alumni Connor McDavid (2013-15), Alex DeBrincat (2014-17), Dylan Strome (2013-17) and Jamie Drysdale (2018-20). During his final three years in Erie, he also served as the team\u2019s Director of Marketing and Partnerships, opening new avenues for revenue growth while maintaining the team\u2019s broadcast contracts and media obligations. \u202f\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A native of Pittsburgh, Cooney also spent one season as an intern with the Pittsburgh Penguins Radio Network in 2012-13. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Radio &amp; TV Broadcasting with a minor in Public Relations at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Penn. He earned honors that included the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) Best Radio Sports Update Award (2013) and the IBS Best Play-by-Play Award (2010). He provided radio play-by-play commentary for various Point Park University athletic programs, including basketball (Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s), baseball, softball, and volleyball. In addition, Cooney served as host of Pioneer Sideline, the university&#8217;s weekly sports television program featuring analysis, highlights, stories and updates on the school&#8217;s athletic teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks named today Aaron Cooney Play-by-Play Announcer for the club\u2019s 24\/7 audio network Ducks Stream, the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-453665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}