Everything these days is becoming automated. Banking…ATM’s. Ordering food…there’s an app for that. But job interviews??? Surely not! Well, not so fast. According to Brian Clapp from WorkInSports.com, the automated job interview is actually not only a thing, but evolving. The process of filling out an application form online through a third party provider to…
Last month I did my first Q&A video, where I took questions that I’d been asked or found online and gave my spin on them. In lieu of a video this month, and inspired by a question received on Twitter, I thought I’d devote an entire blog post to a great question posed by Twitter follower…
Logan Anderson’s blog “Say the Damn Score” has been on fire lately. His last two posts in particular are something to take note of for all basketball and football broadcasters. This past week he’s posted a pair of glossary…glosaries? He’s posted a lot of words, over 450 to be exact. All of them are different…
Three of my favourite words when it comes to sports broadcasting is “behind the scenes”. I love peeling back the curtain that surrounds the industry and seeing how different broadcasters go about their business…it was the genesis behind this website. So when Matt Nelson posted an article on a radio broadcast of the Indy 500, I…
This one is a feel good story. Wyatt and Gerry Nelson are from Saskatoon and are die-hard Blades (Western Hockey League) fans, but not your average puck lovers. Gerry is blind and has turned to his son Wyatt to call the games for him in the stands. The NHL’s St. Louis Blues got wind of…
There was an interesting question on a popular Facebook group for Sportscasters the other day…what does your day of prep look like? There were other questions in there as well, but the overall theme of the post was about how different broadcasters prepped, what they did and how long they spent on it. So I…
This one is a short one, but one a long time coming. I wanted to provide a small shout out to Channing Edward Ewing who has fostered a growing and active community on Facebook made up of play by play announcers, sports talk, studio hosts and more on Facebook. It’s a fantastic resource for those…
Production value. Two words that too frequently get over looked in sports broadcasting. At the Network and higher levels of the industry, the tasks of building intros and elements for television and radio broadcasts falls to a team of professionals to choose, edit, adjust and publish all of these things that transform a talking head…
Buying your own gear can be a very smart investment in your sportscasting career. While many teams, schools and programs have gear already, the ability to collect your own equipment allows you to more easily freelance and pick up additional gigs and hopefully a little extra cash. I’ve already covered purchasing gear in the past, with…
Being a sports broadcaster, you have to have a thick skin…criticism is part and parcel of being a public figure. But “criticism” doesn’t even begin to cover to abuse and hatred that some female members of the sports media fraternity are subject to on a daily basis. Just Not Sports recently posted a sobering look at…