Michael Ashley "Mike" Hogewood was an American sportscaster. He was a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and sideline reporter. Hogewood was best known for calling play-by-play and sideline reporting on ACC college football and basketball for Raycom Sports, and for calling play-by-play and being a pit reporter on NASCAR Cup, Busch and Truck series races for TNN Sports and Turner Sports.
Hogewood was also well known for his work on NASCAR races for TNN Sports, and for Turner Sports. In 1992, while working at a local TV station in Greensboro, Hogewood interviewed Richard Petty during his final season in the Cup series as part of his retirement tour. Hogewood was primarily a pit reporter for many Cup, Busch and Truck races on TNN starting in 1997, however if the Busch Series had a standalone race, Hogewood would sometimes call play-by-play of the Busch race. Hogewood's play by play work came alongside several other voices, including Greg Sacks. When TNN's parent company CBS Sports aired a standalone Busch or Truck race and used the TNN crew to do so, Hogewood would occasionally appear as a pit reporter on CBS. TNN Sports lost NASCAR rights after the 2000 season, however Hogewood remained with the network in other capacities through 2002. Hogewood also worked on NASCAR for Turner Sports at the same time as he worked for TNN, starting in 1997, as Turner had a production partnership with CBS at the time. Hogewood was a pit reporter for Turner's Cup, Busch and Truck series races, as part of the primary broadcast team. However, despite Turner forming a partnership to produce NASCAR races on NBC for half of the Busch and Cup schedules starting in 2001, greatly increasing the number of races produced by Turner, Hogewood was replaced by Dave Burns on the primary Cup and Busch broadcast team, demoting Hogewood to some standalone Busch events on TNT. However, Hogewood's first and only chance to call play-by-play for Turner did come that season, as he announced the standalone Busch event at Watkins Glen, alongside Cup driver Tony Stewart. This event was part of Turner's NBC deal, and was also Hogewood's only appearance on the peacock network. Stewart had worked alongside play-by-play man Allen Bestwick and the primary Turner NASCAR crew on a Busch race in each of 1999 and 2000, while Hogewood had been in his usual spot on pit road, but in 2001 with the Cup crew taking the weekend off, Stewart worked alongside Hogewood instead. This would prove to be Hogewood's last race with Turner Sports, as he left following 2001. As TNN had lost NASCAR following 2000, this meant it was also Hogewood's final live NASCAR television broadcast.
