After a glittering career ended at the conclusion of the MLB regular season, Dick Enberg can rest knowing that he leaves sports broadcasting as one of the greatest. We featured a chat between him and fellow retiree Vin Scully last week, but this time it’s an article Dick penned in the last 90’s on how…
There is so much focus and attention given to getting a job in sports broadcasting. It’s an industry that can be incredibly difficult to break into, and once you’re in you’ll cling to a job like your life and livelihood depend on it. However there are few articles on how to get BETTER once you…
You’ve probably heard about superstitious broadcasters refusing to comment on pending perfect games or super-close shutouts…in fact it was a topic on a recent Voice Behind the Voice podcast where host Sean Aronson spoke with Dave Sims of the Seattle Mariners and the topic came up (for the record Dave is a fan of talking about…
The pre-game interview. It can be a fantastic addition to a pre-game show or like trying to extract your own wisdom teeth with a pair of pliers. While most coaches have realised in this day and age that the media is an essential part of the job, you’ll still get the odd dinosaur who will…
It’s always fascinating to see the setup of a broadcast booth and how different broadcasters go about their business at different levels of their chosen sport. For baseball, it hardly gets bigger than the World Series and for a World Series it hardly gets bigger than two teams looking to break 60+ year droughts. Video…
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m a fan of Logan Anderson’s blog, Say the Damn Score. It’s a good look at his view on sportscasting as he makes his way through a young and glowing career. His entry last Monday was the story of how he got into broadcasting…going from “moderately talented athlete” to play-by-play…
This one popped up over on the Facebook Group Play by Play Announcers, Sideline Reporters, Color Analysts, Studio Hosts, which is a group that has grown in activity over the past few months. It’s a clip from early September featuring two retiring greats in Dick Enberg and Vin Scully. The pair discuss the past, present and…
Travel. It’s part of the job. If the idea of sitting on a bus with sweaty, stinky athletes for hours at a time (and sometimes overnight) doesn’t appeal to you, then sportscasting is not the career for you. As I covered on my Five Myths about Sportscasting article, unless you’re top network talent…be prepared to…
Every broadcast should start with one, and every broadcast should end with one. It’s not a whistle, or a buzzer or a gun….it’s a ‘show’, a pre or post-game show. Life reader @jayramadan17 tweeted at us recently to ask about any tips or advice we had for getting the most from pre and post-game shows…
Ahead of Friday’s opener in the ALCS between the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays, a story has surfaced about CBC (Canada’s public broadcaster) announcer John Hancock. Over a 40 year career, Hancock has plied his trade in broadcasting, but in 1992 he subtly made a stand against what he perceived as insensitive team names,…