Category: Commentary
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]