Halloween scare for sports announcers; from the low minor leagues to the Olympics
It’s Halloween, season of ghosts, goblins, chainsaw wielding murderers and rowdy teenagers. It’s a night […]
From the Howard Stern Show to hitting Sports Talk With The Hein
While many aspire to achieve their dream job, Jon Hein is charmed enough to have […]
Historian Curt Smith examines why the World Series TV ratings have dropped badly since 1988
On September 30, 1989, NBC telecast its last of more than a thousand […]
1968 World Series: Jose Feliciano sings anthem off-key and Tigers Voice Ernie Harwell fears for his job
Fifty years ago, times weren’t really different. The country was as divided then as […]
How did MLB, then dominant on TV, respond to the eruption of the NFL in the 1960s?
It seems like another planet now, but at one point in the early 1960s […]
Curt Smith, baseball broadcast historian: MLB hasn’t yet reclaimed September as Bud Selig vowed
What if you gave a party, the old joke goes, and nobody came? What if […]
Early ESPN interviewing icon, Roy Firestone: Opinions today are the cheapest form of programming
Firestone: “I’ve done 5,000 interviews. It’s less about the questions and more about the rapport […]
ESPN’s Ian O’Connor, author of ‘Belichick’: Coach’s relationship with Brady and Kraft is transactional
Weeks after O’Connor sent Belichick a copy of the bio, one that took 3 years […]
All-time Top-10: NFL players turned TV studio hosts; ranked by field success, card value and analysis
Today, we shift our focus to the Top 10 all-time studio analyst football cards. Last […]
Opinion: The 3-man TV booth and split screen of 2 games don’t work
THEY JUST DON’T WORK ON TV There are two things that don’t work […]
Historian and TV observer Curt Smith proposes a six step program to reverse the declining interest in baseball
By Curt Smith 10/31/2018 2
True story. Circa 1970. As a teen, I played hoops in our family […]