Ted Sarandis

Theodore A. "Ted" Sarandis is an American sports radio personality in Boston who was the host of the Ted Nation show that was broadcast from 7 PM to midnight weekdays on Boston sports radio station WEEI from 1992 until September 2005 and the play by play announcer for Boston College Basketball from 1995 to 2010. Sarandis is a graduate of Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University.

During his tenure on WEEI, Sarandis was the leading advocate for college sports in the Boston area. Ted's program, heard weeknights from 7 to midnight was consistently rated number 1 in that time slot for men ages 25–54 according to the Arbitron ratings book Boston edition. His former time slot at WEEI has been taken over by Mike Adams with the Planet Mikey show.

The 'Ted Nation' show name was allegedly coined by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, a takeoff on Red Sox Nation.

Sarandis was replaced by Jon Meterparel prior to the 2010-2011 Boston College men's basketball season, a position he held since 1995.

Ted's typical reaction to any positive happening on court for the Boston College basketball team is a very emphatic "WOW" and Ted ends a BC victory with "The Horn Sounds this one is over, and Boston College has won WOW!"

During the 2006-2007 seasons, Sarandis hosted the Al Skinner Show. It was a half-hour program about Boston College basketball is taped before a live audience at the Metropolitan Club in Chestnut Hill and aired each Thursday on WEEI during the college basketball season.

In 2009, Ted Sarandis was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame for excellence and achievement in broadcasting college basketball.

Ted developed and co-hosts "College Basketball Tonight," a college basketball in a one-of a kind in-depth format with a variety of expert guests including coaches and television and radio analysts, airing weekly during March Madness through the Final Four each year. Kennesaw State University Men's Basketball Coach Al Skinner co-hosted in 2013 on WATD 95.9. Beginning in 2014, College Basketball Tonight broadcasts on New York City's WNYM-AM(970) "The Answer." The show is live streamed on Hoopville.com. Listen in to the 2015 series of College Basketball Tonight co-hosted with former Head Coaches Terry O'Connor and Mike Jarvis: March 15, 2015 hour 1 and hour 2. March 22, 2015 hour 1 and hour 2; March 29, 2015 hour 1 and hour 2; and the Final Four Special broadcast from Westwood One's Radio Row live from the Indiana Convention Center on April 5, 2015 hour 1, hour 2 and hour 3.

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