Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 31, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bill Kulik, known affectionately by the listeners of his Spanish language baseball broadcast, as El Gringo Malo, will broadcast his 2000th Major League Baseball game this week when he calls a Philadelphia Phillies game versus the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday, May, 31st.
Kulik, the founder of the Spanish Sports Network (SSN), which broadcasts the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, as well as the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers, is a veteran of broadcasting to America's Hispanic Community. "I never thought that I would get such incredible satisfaction from my broadcast work when I started broadcasting Major League Baseball to Hispanic audiences 13 years ago", commented Kulik, "and now the growth of this demographic ensures that SSN will be serving this community for many years to come."
Greatly respected for his high-level knowledge of sports and intimate connections with a wide range of professional athletes, Bill Kulik has impressive sway with the sports-loving Hispanic community. His natural oratory skills are what attract his audiencia, but his mastery of the Spanish language -- speaking it as if it were his first -- is what gives him authentic influence among loyal Hispanic fans.
Kulik established the Spanish Béisbol Network (SBN) - the predecessor to SSN in the spring of 2001 with broadcast rights for the Boston Red Sox games. In just a few short years, he grew the company from a start-up operation to a renowned, widespread network, obtaining the rights to the Philadelphia Phillies in 2005 and the Washington Nationals in 2008, as well as doing the play-by-play for four World Series, including the 2004 Red Sox and 2008 Phillies victories. Kulik just completed his first season broadcasting the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in Spanish to the SSN's network of stations and has recently added the Carolina Panthers to his growing group of sports franchisees that utilize SSN to reach local Hispanic sports fans.
Bill has enabled the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Eagles to establish their Spanish language broadcasts to the US Hispanic community which is growing faster than any other demographic in the US. Embracing this demographic is an esstential step for any major US sports franchise.