For those that follow hockey, you’ll know it’s been a tough couple of decades for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Hockey’s answer to the Chicago Cubs, years of futility have plagued the franchise that clings to every win as an opportunity to plan their eventual Stanley Cup parade. Their primary radio broadcaster is Joe Bowen who…
It’s the number one, most asked, most requested question that comes with the most complicated, most non-descript, most sought after answer…….”how do I become a play-by-play announcer?” A while back I shared my story of how I got into sports broadcasting, but it’s a unique tale as are countless others out there. But what makes…
The art of job hunting has certainly taken a different direction in the last 10-15 years. Gone are the days of sending tapes or CD’s to Program Directors in the hopes of being offered a job…now job applicants are Googled and multi-interviewed and put through all sorts of tests before maybe being offered an internship.…
It’s not easy being a sportscaster. The long hours, the travel, the prep…but boy is it fun. It’s a topic we’ve covered many times before including the myths surrounding sportscasting. However the job of being a sportscaster is harder when you’re thrown an unexpected curveball just minutes before you have to go on air and…
It’s been said more than once….technology is changing the world we live in on a daily basis. From a sportscasting point of view it’s generating more broadcast opportunities and more broadcasts than ever before. INTHEBLACK is a monthly Australian business magazine that releases over 150,000 copies of its magazine in 127 different countries. In their September…
It was October of 1993. I was barely a month into my WHL broadcast career as the Voice of the Prince Albert Raiders and at the tender age of 20, I was summoned into the office of Raiders Head Coach Donn Clark. He closed the door and said, “Whose team are you on?” I stuttered…
My first year covering hockey full time was rough, and in particular my first couple of months. Making the jump from calling 20 or so home games, to travelling with a team and broadcasting what wound up being a 75 game season in my first year tested me in many ways. What helped was refining…
It’s the number one biggest question asked by those with a remote interest in being paid to talk about sports for a living….how do I become a sports broadcaster? The difficulty in answering the question is there is no one set path, there’s no one magic solution and there’s no one guarantee. Gina Miller is…
So I want to tell a story. This happened to me a few years back where I ran into a coach who didn’t see eye to eye with me. In the interests of fairness and unity, I’ve removed the names of those involved. This isn’t so much of a “how to handle a coach” post, rather…
A year and a half out of school, my life in the broadcasting world has been a blur. The same can be said for friends and classmates. When I started working up in Prince George, someone at the TV station said “This is an industry where you either shine, or burn out.” I’ve seen that…