Category: Halby’s Morsels
Halby’s Morsels: Coronavirus scraps CBS/TNT’s tourney production meeting; Remembering Ed Ingles
The annual CBS/Turner production meeting that’s held in New York prior to the NCAA […]
Halby’s Morsels: Ex voice, survivor of Wichita State’s 1970 plane crash, is 100!; ESPN’s analysts-only game
There aren’t any 100 year old sports announcers, current or retired, at least anyone I […]
Halby’s Morsels: Talent salaries; Is Kirk Herbstreit worth $3-4 million per?; Baseball voices moonlighting
Salaries in the sports broadcast business vary considerably. Some are frankly outrageous. Let’s go […]
Halby’s Morsels: A cynical view of Roone Arledge; ESPN’s NBA talent; More 70+ Voices; NFL TV rights
NBA on ESPN ESPN ran five games on Christmas Day. The quintuple-header turned into an […]
Halby’s Morsels: ESPN’s best college football play-by-players; Sports TV’s future; NHL’s Hewitt Award
The thick of the season is behind us. The conference championships, Army-Navy and […]
Halby’s Morsels: NBA announcer changes; League has 14 voices 70 or over, Curt Gowdy and PC in 1975
Jim Barnett, an eleven year NBA journeyman, did color on Golden State Warriors telecasts […]
Halby’s Morsels: Buck energized, Brian Anderson shines, Joe Davis lacked flair; Fox’ MLB studio is good
Halby’s post-season mouthfuls Joe Buck has been a prominent network voice for a long […]
Halby’s Morsels: Baseball voices now vs. past; NHL talent changes; ESPN plans 3000 college hoops telecasts
My mother, God bless her, she’s 95, always told me that if I have nothing […]
Halby’s Morsels: It’s all in the family with names like Albert, Caray, Kelly, Kuiper and Lazarus; Mike Tirico +
First, a programming note. Columnist Dan Mason had a lengthy interview yesterday with the most […]