- April 7, 2026
If at some point you've listened to Mike Lischio’s sports broadcasts on WNZF Radio over the past 17 years, you are probably aware that he has a “day job.” And you also would know that “the alma mater” is his high school alma mater, the St. Augustine Yellow Jackets.
Lischio has been broadcasting Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas high school football games for WNZF since 2010. Recently he was promoted to sports director at the station, Flagler Broadcasting President & CEO David Ayres announced.
“Mike is well deserving of this promotion with [his] years of dedication covering Flagler County sports,” Ayres said.
Lischio plans to keep his day job at the St. Johns County Property Appraiser’s Office, even though his role with the radio station is expanding, but he’s used to that. And he loves it. For his first 12 years with WNZF, Lischio was an unpaid intern broadcasting football games first with Dr. Dave West and then with Rich Carroll, who is now the Observer’s multimedia producer. Four years ago, Lischio became a paid employee at the station as the sports anchor on Flagler’s Morning News.
During those first 12 years, Lischio thought he was the lucky one. He probably would have paid Flagler Broadcasting for the privilege to do high school play-by-play.
During those first 12 years, Lischio thought he was the lucky one. He probably would have paid Flagler Broadcasting for the privilege to do high school play-by-play.
“They gave me a (Jacksonville) Jaguars credential, so I got to cover the Jaguars for the station, and just being able to go to every game free of charge, attend some post-game conferences, and learn about interviewing people was worth it,” he said. “It was the opportunity for me to live out a dream I'd always wanted to, so even being an unpaid intern, it was an opportunity to really open up a new world that I hadn't had a chance to be in.”
It was happenstance that Lischio got on the air in the first place. In 2009, his co-worker at Prosperity Bank at the time, John Ferry, did play-by-play of Menendez’s football games for WFOY in St. Augustine. One day, Ferry was asked to fill in on the sister station broadcasting a St. Augustine High School game, and he asked Lischio if he wanted to join him in the booth.
“It was a bucket list thing. I always wanted to broadcast a game,” Lischio said. “I said sure. It happened to be against FPC, and I prepared all my notes and did some color commentary. It was pretty cool.”
He wound up talking to Dr. Dave, who was broadcasting the game for WNZF. By the next season, he became Dr. Dave’s partner.
Licshio now is also the play-by-play voice for several Flagler College sports and serves as a public address announcer at FPC as well as “the alma mater.” He lives in St. Augustine with his wife, Kim, and his high-school aged twins, Michael III and Gabriella.
Lischio wants to expand WNZF’s high school sports coverage, broadcasting basketball, baseball, softball and other sports in addition to football, as he and Carroll had been doing the past few years.
“I’m focused on what’s going on at the two high schools and at First Baptist (Academy) once they get their program consistently established,” he said. “I’d like to have more of a presence in the Palm Coast community, building on what Rich kind of laid the blueprint for. I’ll have big shoes to fill.”
