Jim Frederick (left) and Bruce Frey call a game at Oak Hill Field in New Brighton.
(Photo/BCR Archives)

Longtime WBVP and WMBA sports broadcaster Jim Frederick has passed away at the age of 71.

Frederick started as sports director at WMBA in 1995, and served as a sportscaster at Beaver County Radio for over a decade, up until the early 2010s. He called dozens of football and basketball games for the two AM stations along with Tom Hays, Bruce Frey, and the late Bob Barrickman among others.

One of Frederick’s most legendary calls took place on February 26, 2005 at the former A.J. Palumbo Center in Pittsburgh, when a three-overtime match between Beaver Falls and Aliquippa for the Class 2A WPIAL Championship was decided on a last-second shot by Lance Jeter (shot takes place at :56 in the clip below):

 

Frederick also served for nearly two decades as Deputy Treasurer in the Beaver County Courthouse, working from 2002 until 2020. Prior to his work at WMBA and later WBVP, Frederick worked at WHIZ-TV as sports director from 1974 until 1989.