He died July 24. He was coachable. "My heart's broken," retired NewsChannel 5 sports director Hope Hines told The SiriusXM Miami SiriusXMs new state-of-the-art studios will officially open on May 1 with a special week of shows and performances, including April 25, 2023. Ive got nothing really but good things to say about my experiences there.. Sending our thoughts and prayers to his family. He joined former Titan Frank Wycheck and Kevin Ingram, launching the Wake Up Zone on 104.5 The Zone. Howard joined The Zone, 104.5-FM in the Music City in 2004 when he co-hosted the Wake Up Zone with Kevin Ingram and Frank Wycheck. I sent him one in June of 2021 telling him about a segment on OutKick 360 where I recapped a weird dream I had: He silently coached a Yankees team including Ron Guidry from under one of his beloved hoodies in a misty rain at a rec field. News recently broke that Mark Howard has died at the age of 65, but many want to know exactly what his cause of death was why it came so suddenly. He was the co-host of Wake Up Zone on The Zone 104.5 FM with Kevin Ingram and former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck. Throughout his career, he covered "the Braves and Twins in the 1991 World Series, the Tennessee Lady Vols national championship run in the late 1990s, Dale Earnhardt's incredible Daytona 500 victory, and the Titans playoff run in 2001 culminating with Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta," according to the station. Mark Howard with Terry Crisp, courtesy of the Predators Foundation. Unsurprisingly, this musical pedigree has long drawn locals and tourists alike into the city's bars and clubs. Since The Zone canceled WUZ in August of 2020, I didnt see Mark the same way I had when we were coming into the studio as they were leaving. Longtime Nashville TV sports anchor and radio personality Mark I woke up the next morning thinking, I know Ginas mad at me. Longtime NewsChannel 5 sportscaster and radio personality Mark Howard died at his home Sunday, according to his wife Debra. The first round came and went and Rothenberg did not hear his name or the name of the show. When Mark, Frank Wycheck and Kevin Ingram launched The Wake Up Zone they brought Nashville sports talk from hokie good-old-boy laugh-a-thons that spent an hour at a time talking Middle Tennessee into a more modern, fun, funny era with game reviews, previews and analysis, mixed with self-aware humor. Listeners noted Bowen struggling with certain calls throughout the Maple Leafs playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning due to the remote broadcast setup. He worried that it meant that Kiper considers DiPietro & Rothenberg a fifth-round show., If I go to day 3 and havent mentioned you, Ill be replaced by Todd McShay on this show, Kiper joked, saying he has never been under so much scrutiny before. What Howard didn't know off the top of his head, he seemed to always carry with him. He helped me with a question when I needed some perspective on something that predated me. Kusharky said he would frequently appear on Howard's radio show. Howard Cumberland Records "Those were some of the most fun working mornings of my life,"he said. You look back and he spent two decades with this company and you dont do that if youre not a special, special talent.. Howard truly covered all the bases, from reporting on three World Series games for the Atlanta Braves, hundreds of high school football games and the start of the Nashville Predators in Music City. Mark wasnt doing it to necessarily be tough, he was doing it because he was Mark.