There are few challenges in sportscasting as demanding and unique as broadcasting professional wrestling, and one of the best is Mauro Ranallo. As we’ve discussed on Sportscaster Life before, professional wrestling is a perfect blend between drama and sports and allows for so much storytelling. It’s unique in the sense that in some cases you…
Sometimes when networking or building a book of connections, we forget that it’s not only coaches who can help us advance our careers and improve our calls. It’s no secret that sportscasters are sometimes left out of the loop regarding team news. Trades, new players, and special circumstances always seem to pop up and it’s…
Ask any professional worth their salt and they’ll tell you the number one thing that is required in just about ANY industry to move up the ladder and succeed is networking. In movies and television, the saying is “it’s not what you know, but who you know”. In sportscasting, that rings even more true with…
Put yourself in Humboldt Broncos broadcaster Rory McGouran’s shoes at the start of the 2018/19 junior hockey season. You’re in your first year with a brand new team that suffered an unspeakable tragedy only months prior, resulting in the death of 16 people (including your predecessor) and severely injuring 13 more. Now your task is…
Anyone who’s known me long enough knows that since high school, some 13 years ago, I’ve always had a small notebook tucked in my back pocket. It’s something I have on me every day and it wasn’t until very recently that I realized how important that pocket notebook is to my career. Since it became…
I grew up a fan of the Chicago Cubs and Buffalo Sabres, so it goes without saying that my childhood sports fandom was full of disappointment and not a lot of positivity. Until 2016, the Cubs were the poster-children of “here we go again.” Every time they gave their fans a glimmer of hope, it was…
Being a sportscaster is perhaps one of the most unique jobs on the planet. Few people in the world get to experience the thrill of live sporting events with a microphone inches from their face. Few get to travel with athletes and tell stories to dedicated audiences. But not everyone can hack it in this…
Ten, or even five years ago, the notion of giving eSports the same attention and coverage as traditional sports would have been absurd. Who wants to watch people play games…and more importantly who wants to commentate that game play. However the growth of eSports broadcasting across the world can’t be ignored and is now a…
For many winter sports broadcasters, the season is right around the corner. As for the summer sports gang, the season may soon be coming to an end. The best time to take a state of the union with your gear is always at the end of your season and once again at the start. The…
The single most important thing a broadcaster can do is prepare. You’ll see it all the time in spotting charts and research on teams and histories. Important match-ups or niche stats gleaned from hours of online digging. But it also rings true to the tech side of your broadcast, in particular having broadcast backups for…