Jim Ecker, Owner & President

 Jim Ecker is KMRY's owner & President bringing with him a long history of sports reporting and is a veritable fount of information on everything sports.

Jim, a native of Yonkers, N.Y., graduated from the University of Michigan in 1974 with a degree in journalism. He founded and serves as President and Editor of the MetroSportsReport.com, an extremely comprehensive website covering metro-area sports from high school through college and area pro teams. 

Jim spent 27 years as a sportswriter at The Gazette and was recently the information director at Perfect Game USA. 

He was named Iowa Sportswriter of the Year in 1995.

Jim does Play by Play and Color Commentary for local High School, Mt Mercy and Kirkwood Sports and still gets behind the mic for Sports Updates and as a  Guest Host for The Real Sports Hour.