Tag: Play-by-Play
Video streaming: The fastest growing segment of play-by-play; Almost any event, anywhere, live or on-demand
In 2017, there were 134,000 hours of sports programming available on television in the […]
Halby’s Morsels: Older announcers can’t fight the clock; Few can withstand the winds of time
Amazon voices Storm and Kremer were very well prepared but lacked experience to caption the […]
Denny Matthews: Hall of Fame ‘Voice of Royals’ started with expansion Kansas City franchise in 1969
Most big-league announcers will tell you that they grew up dreaming of calling games. Al […]
Pat Hughes: From #2 in Milwaukee to #1 in Chicago; Popularity of Cubs’ radio voice is swelling
Pat Hughes’ colleagues around baseball will tell you unhesitatingly that he is friendly, likable and […]
Sports Media Visionary Ed Desser: Legal gambling will bolster ratings for blowouts; Select tech players will bid for rights
There’s a photo of David Stern and Ed Desser, likely taken at the time that […]
Everett Fitzhugh: Professional Hockey’s only African-American play-by-play announcer
While the Stanley Cup will land somewhere with pomp and ceremony, Everett Fitzhugh is just […]
Baseball Broadcast Historian Curt Smith ranks top 5 all-time Play-by-Play announcers
Curt Smith, a former White House speechwriter for the first President Bush, George Herbert Walker, […]