As a team where our nearest divisional opponent is eight hours away, there’s a lot of time on the bus, a lot of time in hotels and a lot of time being a roommate with someone else on the team. Some broadcasters may travel with the team, and some may just make the odd road trip.…
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…
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…
For many of us in the broadcasting community, calling games isn’t the only role we play. There may be a second job on the side, or another position within the organization. When I started in Junior A hockey, I was just doing play by play, and running the social media for the team. Quickly I…
It’s hard to think of a larger story in the sports broadcasting world over the last while than the retirement of Vin Scully from the Los Angeles Dodgers and baseball in general. A decade that spanned not just years or decades but generations at the highest level will likely never be again be matched or…
With the 2016 Paralympic Games just complete in Rio, we can say goodbye to another cycle of the world’s biggest sporting event. The 31st Olympiad in Rio saw not only great sporting achievements dominated by the exploits of athletes like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt…but also in technology and broadcasting. When it comes to NBC,…
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…
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…
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…
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…