Being a sportscaster is a tough tough job. You’ve got to be eloquent, knowledgeable, expressive and trustworthy. You have to manage your emotions, but convey the feeling of a given moment or game. And that’s just on air! The prep work that goes into a broadcast is tedious at best and has been covered multiple…
It’s hard enough broadcasting for one sport at the pro level. The travel, the research and the pressure are all dialed up to 10. However Toronto’s Matt Devlin seems to thrive under that pressure, and manages to not only stay at the highest level, but switch seamlessly between different sports. Toronto newspaper, The Star, recently…
My favourite podcast right now is Sean Aronson’s The Voice Behind the Voice. It’s pretty much a series of broadcaster biographies in audio form, but it’s presented in such a way that you feel like you’re listening to two buddies talk about their lives and this profession. If you have ANY interest in sports broadcasting,…
One of the most fascinating things about broadcasting for me is the ‘how’. How other broadcasters setup, how they prepare, how they work their way through a game and how they do what they do. I’m a firm believer in learning from others…not copying but seeing what makes them successful and finding my own spin…
This post stems from a conversation I had with fellow hockey broadcaster Jonathan Kliment. Kliment reached out to Sportscaster Life to discuss prep techniques, namely the volume of information put onto spotting boards and a few issues that he’d been having while covering the SUNY Broome Hornets in the NCJAA. Here’s Jonathan’s questions: JK: A…
It’s the stuff of movies right? The intrepid young announcer reaching for the stars in pursuit of a childhood dream to call that Championship winning touchdown, home run, three pointer or breakaway goal. For Hockey, there are a few resources to find that ‘dream job’, with one being IceHockeyJobs.com. The site not only covers media…
If you’ve been taking in any of the Olympic coverage over the last week and a bit, you’ll no doubt have witnessed the very best in sport and humanity. So often the Olympics put politics and indifference aside in the spirit of competition. A big story of the games has been the continued dominance of…
It’s no surprise that given how ingrained the internet is in our culture and society that more and more radio stations, sports teams and individual broadcasters are moving away from things like tie-lines and phone connections and incorporating internet audio as a primary method of delivery for live sporting events. In the past, I’ve covered…
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Doc Emrick fan. This is evidenced by the stories I’ve done on him here, here, here, here and here. It’s been a while, so let’s add another one to the list. In early July, during Emrick’s off season from calling NHL games…
I’m not a fan. I haven’t really been a fan for the past 7 or so years. I might be in the minority, but as soon as I started covering hockey, it became very difficult for me to resonate with a team as a fan, and not as a professional. I’m not talking teams in…