Don has been the voice of Indiana University football and basketball since 1973, having called more than 1,300 Hoosier contests. Included in that number are seven bowl games, three NCAA championship games and an NIT championship game.
Don also hosts the weekly call-in show for IU basketball and football coaches and hosts his own show, IU Sports Today, which is syndicated statewide.
A native of Mendota, Ill., Fischer got into broadcasting in the late 1960s as a disc jockey for a small FM station in Butte, Montana. He returned home to do football play-by-play in Ottawa, Ill. From there, he went to Terre Haute, where he did play-by-play for Indiana State University football and basektball on WBOW. Fischer took the same position at IU in 1973, also serving as sports director at WIRE in Indianapolis.
During his career, Don has been named the NSSA's Indiana Sportscaster of the Year 22 times. He has also received the ISSA's Sportscaster of the Year honor.