Posted at 1:35 p.m., Monday, June 23, 2003
Former UH lineman Vaioleti will do K5 color
By Stephen Tsai
Advertiser Staff Writer
Vaioleti, a union carpenter, met with K5 officials last week and is scheduled to meet with them this week, at which time "all of the details will be finalized," said John Fink, the station's president and general manager.
Vaioleti replaces Dick Tomey, a former UH and Arizona head coach who served as K5's color analyst the last two seasons. Tomey is now an assistant coach with the San Francisco 49ers.
K5 play-by-play announcer Jim Leahey said Vaioleti was his first choice.
"He is one of the brightest young people whom I know," Leahey said.
In the mid-1990s, Vaioleti was an intern at K5's sister station, KHNL-8. It was during "philisophical conversations" with Vaioleti, Leahey recalled, "that I always kept him in mind" for a broadcast opening.
K5, which owns the television rights to UH sports, will televise nine of the Warriors' 13 regular-season games this year. The others will air on national television. Five of K5's telecasts of home UH games will be available live on pay-per-view through Oceanic Cable. Those telecasts also will be shown on a same-night, delayed basis on K5.
