Jack Franchetti

A television director ... talk show host ... major league baseball announcer ... communications instructor. These are some of the qualifications that have enabled Jack Franchetti to be highly respected in the world of communications training. His name is found among the innovators in the fields of media and speech/presentation skills since the early 1970s.

Mr. Franchetti's programs and teaching techniques have been used by numerous political leaders including those in the Office of the President right on down to county seats.

For eleven years, including the 1986 World Championship season, Mr. Franchetti was the Shea Stadium voice of the New York Mets. He has served as a guest lecturer on media and presentation skills at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University, and Carnegie-Mellon University.

Mr. Franchetti began his media training and speech preparation programs in 1973 for the J. Walter Thompson Company. For several years he was host of "Point of View" on WOR-TV in New York. In 1966 he began his professional announcing career at New York's WHN Radio and his TV directing career. He was Station Manager of WFUV Radio in New York and Director of the St. John's University Television Department.

Mr. Franchetti earned his B.S. from Fordham University in 1964 followed by a Masters Degree in Speech/Theatre from Brooklyn College in 1966. Mr. Franchetti serves on the Board of Directors of the Manhasset Community Fund and the Advisory Board of WFUV public radio in New York.