Along with Chuck Thompson, Schenkel called the 1958 NFL Championship Game for NBC. In 1956, with DuMont exiting the network television business, he moved to CBS Sports, where he continued to call Giants games, along with boxing, Triple Crown horse racing and The Masters golf tournament, among other events. Schenkel was at the microphone for DuMont's last broadcast and its only color telecast, a high school football championship game held on Thanksgiving in 1957. Nicholas Arena (1954–56), replacing Dennis James as the network's primary boxing announcer.
In 1952, Schenkel was hired by the DuMont Television Network, for which he broadcast New York Giants football and hosted DuMont's Boxing From Eastern Parkway (1953-1954) and Boxing From St. For six years he did local radio and called the Thoroughbred horse races at Narragansett Park. and then moved to television, in Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1947 began announcing Harvard football games. He worked in radio for a time at WLBC in Muncie, Indiana. Army during World War II and the Korean War. He began his broadcasting career at radio station WBAA while studying for a premedical degree at Purdue University where he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Schenkel was born on Augto second-generation immigrant parents on their farm in Bippus, Indiana.