Tag: Sports announcers
Legalized betting is building dough for sports and TV; Fans more engaged from start to finish
There’s been a proliferation of legalized sports gambling across our great landscape the last few […]
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, […]
Halby’s Morsels: Use of language and terms on-air, then and now; St. John’s basketball’s golden days
Language on-air Marty Glickman and I were heading up to Hartford from Manhattan […]
College Football begins Saturday with seven games: Schedule, networks and announcers!
Waiting for football? Here it is! The first weekend begins this Saturday, 10 days […]
Voices overuse the phrase “Greatest Ever”; Eras and other factors make for uneven comparisons
More than in any other sport, commentators of baseball games have a “best ever” […]
Winning is fun; Losing isn’t; Team announcers talk about how to handle losing seasons on-air
Winning is fun. Everyone has a blast. Winning fosters community. It promotes togetherness. There’s a sense […]
ESPN’s Bob Wischusen: One of the BC trio; Classmates, Boog Sciambi, Joe Tessitore and he made it big
In sports broadcasting, we often hear about trials and tribulations that people go through […]
Watching a game or being there? The comfort of one’s home is great but announcers must be transparent
As someone who spent years watching sports at national and international arenas, initially […]
Ex-athletes and coaches who are now broadcast analysts assume fans know the jargon – They’re wrong
At one time in the past, whether a person was following a sporting event […]
Halby’s Morsels: Tourney voices; Top 5 MSG sporting events ever and the broadcasters who covered them
Looking ahead to the NCAA Tournament: CBS’ Sean McManus said that the format this year […]
Indelible Qualities: 25 announcers whose resumes won’t likely be duplicated soon
With 85 or so football games on network television this past weekend, I asked myself […]
Super agent Sandy Montag says salaries for A level network announcers are still strong
It’s a success story made in America. Super broadcast agent Sandy Montag was a young […]