Tag: Bob Costas
Halby’s Morsels: Network responses; Larsen’s Perfect Game; Costas; Joe Davis is much better
Ian Eagle and Jim Nantz We’ll start when a long-timer check-in anonymous pro. “I […]
Bob Costas is unbeatable on baseball, whether on Turner or on MLB Network
Costas’ MLB Call for TBS Like a Norman Rockwell Painting Tuesday night, New Yorkers […]
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 […]