Category: Commentary
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 […]
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 […]
All-time, top-20 NFL broadcasters: Those who also played the game
In this third installment in our series, Sports Broadcast Journal continues our journey down memory lane. […]
Network TV’s best ever ‘3-sport’ announcers: Gowdy, Enberg, Jackson, Stockton and Michaels
With the intersection of the baseball, football and basketball seasons, the country’s most popular […]
Part II – Another weekend of college football; More announcers -15 additional telecasts critiqued
On Saturdays, a few announce crews are distinct. Others are a blur. College football on […]
A TV marathon, 30 hours of watching college football: 27 broadcasts critiqued; The good and not so good
Television was again overrun with college football this past weekend, especially since Friday night. […]
Al Michaels, NFL’s primetime voice for 33 seasons: “Howard Cosell deserves Hall of Fame recognition”
It’s Al Michaels season. Excuse me, it’s NFL season. What the heck’s the difference? They’re […]
All-time ranking: The top 25 baseball cards of ex-players who became popular broadcasters
In this second part of our two part series, Sports Broadcast Journal takes you […]
Missing: Howard Cosell has still not won Pro Football HOF’s Rozelle Award for broadcast excellence
On the list of the 30 winners to date of the Pete Rozelle Award, Howard […]
How did MLB, then dominant on TV, respond to the eruption of the NFL in the 1960s?
By Curt Smith 10/25/2018 1
It seems like another planet now, but at one point in the early 1960s […]