Tag: Bob Costas
Voices who turn 70 in 2022; We’re all getting grayer; For Hubie Brown, 88, he’s amazing and lucky
Hitting age 70 is a milestone. As we get older, our intellectual gifts weaken, some […]
Tony Kubek, 86, a longtime Yankee and NBC MLB broadcaster, lives quietly with family in Wisconsin
A quarter-century ago, network television weekly ferried baseball across the land. Today streaming, cable, and […]
Sports on TV: It seems that winning or losing has become less important than who’s announcing the game
Football Announcers Switching Networks Dominate Coverage Broadcast sports has greatly changed over the years. Networks, […]
Cosell said he told it like it is; But Bob Costas was really the Ed Murrow of his day!
There’s an old adage: Money talks. And recently there has been outsized coverage about […]
Happy 70th birthday to Bob Costas! The prodigy can do anything; His zeal for baseball is irrepressible
Today, Bob Costas turns 70. Below, we continue our series of profiles of past […]
Fox dumps $10 million of salary; Buck and Aikman go to ESPN; Fox should jump on Michaels and Costas
It appears that Joe Buck is the man. He’ll preside over ESPN’s NFL’s Monday Night […]
Top 10 all-time MLB network TV storytellers; If Buck leaves for ESPN, would Fox hire Costas for baseball?
Until TV screens were saturated with stats, replays and excessive commercial time between innings, announcers […]
NBCUniversal’s reputation as a legitimate purveyor of news will be tested during the Olympic
NBC will begin televising the Beijing Olympics from China on February 3d, even though […]
Budding voices can learn from these 30 veterans; whether the lessons are light or fundamental
Calling this eclectic would be silly. Yet having studied hundreds of broadcasters for fifty […]
A sensible and thorough break down of NBC’s Olympic coverage which didn’t get rave reviews overall
Generally speaking, NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics didn’t qualify for any medal. And […]
Will fans get the full story watching games on television or is print the only way to get the complete truth?
The critical story this year to most of us in the United States is […]
Ali-Frazier I, 50 years ago, was tinged with emotion and contrasting racial views; Bob Costas remembers
This morning, Bob Costas reflects on the Fight of the Century, the rumble that […]