Category: Reviews

NFL Week #12: Thanksgiving is here! Announcer critiques; Tirico gets both NBC games; Al Michaels off

By David J. Halberstam 11/24/2021 0

Week #12 Byes- Arizona and Kansas City For late changes – Check The 506 – […]

10 ex-network voices whose work we miss today and 10 voices still on-air who are annoying

By David J. Halberstam 11/08/2021 1

Sitting around this weekend and hearing one indistinguishable voice after another, particularly on an unending […]

Fox Sports’ World Series pre-game shows were silly, a bad mix of participants and directionless TV

By Arthur Solomon 11/06/2021 1

During the World Series, I thought I’d do something a bit different. So I […]

The Mannings and 3 of their guests, Lynch, Brady and Brees, were informative and fun, Bird miscast

By Eric Bean 10/26/2021 0

Monday Night’s ManningCast returned to ESPN2 last night. The side by side show had […]

In the 90s, broadcast coach Marty Glickman evaluated top network voices; Most had some flaws

By David J. Halberstam 10/25/2021 2

As mentioned in Friday’s Glickman piece, I got to know Marty fairly well in […]

Starting its last season of Thursday Night Football, Fox Sports’ Buck, Aikman and crew excel

By Eric Bean 10/08/2021 0

Fox Sports began its last season covering Thursday Night Football. Next year, Amazon Prime […]

‘You are Looking Live’: A closeup of CBS’ The NFL Today; The circus days of Brent, The Greek and Phyllis

By David J. Halberstam 10/06/2021 1

Columnist Rich Podolsky has written a dandy. It’s about a time when television was smaller […]

NBC did nice job covering Brady’s return to NE; After kickoff, Michaels, Collinsworth and Tafoya settled in

By Eric Bean 10/05/2021 0

The anticipation was as inflated as expected. Tom Brady’s return to New England on […]

Fox’ Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft get off to a decent start in Ohio State’s win over Minnesota

By Eric Bean 09/04/2021 0

Fox Sports’ College Football A-Team of play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson, color commentator Joel Klatt, […]

Playing Musical Chairs with sports programming: Fox’ “Saratoga Live” was impossible to follow

By Rich Podolsky 08/23/2021 0

We’ve written some very positive things about Fox Sports Two’s racing show “Saratoga Live.” […]

A sensible and thorough break down of NBC’s Olympic coverage which didn’t get rave reviews overall

By Arthur Solomon 08/10/2021 1

Generally speaking, NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics didn’t qualify for any medal. And […]

NBC avoided Olympic controversies; Holt stuck to journalism first; Guthrie didn’t; Costas missed

By Arthur Solomon 08/09/2021 0

Go back for a moment to a Variety story on April 14th. It set […]