Working in radio full time is a dream come true for me and I am incredibly blessed. Over the years I have had the privilege of broadcasting many hundreds of high school football, basketball, baseball, and softball games in Colorado, Oregon, Idaho and Texas. I’ve also been fortunate to broadcast professional basketball on radio and…
The average words per minute that humans talk at is somewhere between 145 and 160 words per minute. For sportscasters on air, it’s likely a bit faster, particularly for sports like basketball or hockey where the play is constant. Multiply those 150 (to choose a number in the middle) words per minute by an average…
You love watching sports. You love to talk. And a career where you get paid to go both of those things seems like it’s too good to be true. But to get started in sportscasting can be a very daunting prospect that comes with a lot of brick walls you’re forced to fight through, climb…
I love pro-wrestling. It’s a guilty pleasure that I truly enjoy for a multitude of reasons. First it’s entertaining. The production value, the presentation and the action are all fun to watch, and seeing these larger than life guys and girls pulling off moves in the ring that I can only dream about is something…
People who want to be a sportscaster as a profession know how tough it is. On the surface, a career as a sportscaster is awesome. You can get paid to watch sport and get treated like a king. However dig just below the surface and you’ll see all the blood, sweat and tears that go into…
The future of sportscasting. It’s an interesting thought. In the last 50 years we’ve seen such amazing advances in media and the coverage of sports…particularly on television. Colour pictures, satellite transmission, high definition and now in the last 5 years the prevalence and increasing access of live streaming. Even as little as five years ago,…
We all have them. Those names on the roster sheet that just fill you with dread every time you see them. You know one of these days you’ll mess it up and it’s just a matter of time until you turn some poor players name into verbal mince meat. Learning to pronounce names correctly is one…
When you think hockey, chances are the NHL comes to mind. The world’s best players plying their trade, having grown up on a healthy dose of early morning rink sessions, weekends spent playing shinny on frozen lakes and using built up snowy embankments as make-shift boards. But the NHL isn’t the world’s only hockey league,…
It’s the number one, most asked, most requested question that comes with the most complicated, most non-descript, most sought after answer…….”how do I become a play-by-play announcer?” A while back I shared my story of how I got into sports broadcasting, but it’s a unique tale as are countless others out there. But what makes…
It’s not easy being a sportscaster. The long hours, the travel, the prep…but boy is it fun. It’s a topic we’ve covered many times before including the myths surrounding sportscasting. However the job of being a sportscaster is harder when you’re thrown an unexpected curveball just minutes before you have to go on air and…