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1964: Baseball’s best broadcasting year, top to bottom; 25 eventual HOF Ford Frick winners were on the air
By David J. Halberstam 07/08/2019 3
For baseball broadcasting, you might say that it was a glorious year, one not surpassed […]
Eighty years ago today, NBC experimented with the first ever telecast of a sporting event
By David J. Halberstam 05/17/2019 4
Yesterday, NBC circulated a press release that triggered my stream of historical consciousness. Today, the […]
Curt Smith shares why pioneer Red Barber was fired by Yanks in ’66; Costas gets Frick Award tomorrow in Cooperstown
By David J. Halberstam 07/27/2018 1
This Saturday, Bob Costas will be honored with the 42nd Ford Frick Award, emblematic of […]
Kevin Harlan: The Energetic Radio Voice of the Super Bowl
By David J. Halberstam 01/30/2018 0
Loved by many for his high-octane play-by-play and disliked by some for overdoing it, Kevin Harlan will be calling his eighth straight Super Bowl on national radio this Sunday.
Catching Up With the Iconic and Versatile Broadcaster Jack Whitaker; Enjoying Life in his 90s
By David J. Halberstam 01/15/2018 2
In the early 60s, Whitaker left local television and his hometown of Philadelphia, beginning a colorful journey through network television’s dominant years.
A Q&A with WFUV’s Bob Ahrens
By David J. Halberstam 12/31/2017 0
Bob Ahrens has been around the sports broadcast game for over a half century.
Vin Scully on Life and Lessons from his Rookie Year with the 1950 Dodgers
By David J. Halberstam 07/17/2015 0
In 1950, an unfussy, callow rookie tiptoed into the Dodgers broadcast booth and never left.