I was reading through the STAA forums recently when I came across a thread looking for help on how to approach players for interviews. Interviews are an announcers bread and butter for so many reasons. It can not only add valuable content to your broadcast during intermissions, timeouts, inning changes, etc…but also provide you valuable information…
Known for his extensive vocabulary and his unique delivery of the game, lead NBC announcer Doc Emrick is often considered in a class of his own. And unlike many announcers, he has not adopted social media to the extent of having his own Twitter account (unfortunately @DocinRealLife isn’t him). This means that any glimpses into…
It can be the toughest part of a broadcasters job, memorizing every fact and tidbit possible about every player so that it’s available at a moments notice. It’s a near-impossible task, but it can be made easier with some simple techniques. Jon Chelesnik runs STAA (Sports Talent Agency of America). The former ESPN talk-radio host…
A lot of words have been used to describe Edwards, with things like ‘homer’ among them, but he is also incredibly detailed and well researched for every game he calls. In 2011, Edwards’ home network of NESN in Boston posted an article outlining the level of care and attention that goes into his game-day preparation…
Interviews are a huge part of a sports broadcasters job. Whether it’s intermission or half-time features or your own talk radio show the art of the interview can be a huge skill for broadcasters to master. Broadcast Now is a website based out of the UK and one of their articles focused on BBC talent…
A spotting board is usually an over-sized, one page chart of all players on a team. It is more useful in some sports than in others, but its use is the same. To provide nuggets of information at a quick glance. For sports like football, it can also double as a depth chart, providing a…
Scott Feschuk with Sportsnet Magazine featured a great article about reporters getting lazy with their questions: We’re big believers that your best columnists have to step it up for the playoffs. We just gotta hope Scott can get it going. Q: Talk about the column so far. A: Getting that first sentence was huge. I…
Do you spend hours collecting and transcribing information from team and league websites, into a format that’s easily accessible when you’re on air? Did you know that Excel can automatically pull this information from the internet and have it available to you in a way that is easy to work with? You can also set…
Excel can be a powerful tool to help collect and organize information for your broadcasts. The follow video is a step by step tutorial on how to use functions in Excel to pull individual statistics for easy formatting on your spotting charts.
Broadcasters Edge is a spotting board program, designed to help broadcasters collect information on players, teams and games, and organize them in an efficient manner. In many cases, statistics from a particular league can be integrated into the program automatically. From the website: Broadcasters Edge is our sportscaster authoring system that will help keep, manage…