On Monday we talked about Vin Scully’s final game, final year and final call of his illustrious career. However in the process of gathering articles and video for that post, I came across an old video of Vin going over his prep techniques. It’s a fascinating 8 minute trip through one of the all-time greats…
A while back I shared a beautiful set of spotting boards and scoresheets that were produced by BBC’s Nick Barnes. The feature was done by EightbyEight Magazine, a link to which is in the original article. Well there’s good news….. Part two. This time it’s NBC’s Arlo White who takes a different approach. If Barnes’…
I stumbled upon the blog of college basketball announcer Adam Young recently. In search for information on spotting boards, I found a series of posts he had published back between 2012 and 2014 on advice he had for up and coming broadcasters, particularly those in college. While Adam hits a number of key points multiple…
I love what you can find when you’re not looking for it. When doing some research and scouting around for some imagery on another story, I found this wonderful chestnut for those among us who LOVE spotting board layouts and design. In the past I’ve covered some true beauties including Jack Edwards’ setup from the…
Being a sportscaster is a tough tough job. You’ve got to be eloquent, knowledgeable, expressive and trustworthy. You have to manage your emotions, but convey the feeling of a given moment or game. And that’s just on air! The prep work that goes into a broadcast is tedious at best and has been covered multiple…
This post stems from a conversation I had with fellow hockey broadcaster Jonathan Kliment. Kliment reached out to Sportscaster Life to discuss prep techniques, namely the volume of information put onto spotting boards and a few issues that he’d been having while covering the SUNY Broome Hornets in the NCJAA. Here’s Jonathan’s questions: JK: A…
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…
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…
My background in this industry, the on-camera side of things at least, is all from the school of life and practical experience. I never majored in journalism at University, and outside of a part-time sports broadcasting course taught by two local TV anchors in Vancouver, I’ve never been to school for the journalism and on…
In today’s blog, how to import stats into Excel when the original tutorial didn’t work. On some websites, the direct import to Excel feature doesn’t recognise that there are tables and isn’t able to import them into excel. This tutorial involves an extra technique for importing statistics and tables from the web into Microsoft Excel.…