Getting honest feedback on your work can be one of the toughest things to obtain. Friends and family often hold back in fear of offending you and fans might not be knowledgeable about the ins and outs of sportscasting. I’ve found though over the years that I’m my harshest critic, and going back to listen…
In the first of my Sunday Quick Tip series, a look at using Skype for Sports Broadcasters.
ZaraStudio is my favourite, number one, most loved, bestest program on my computer for sportscasting. When I first started out broadcasting, I used either iTunes or Windows Media Player to cue up my elements. It worked fine for playing one at a time, or maybe a few back to back. However what I didn’t like…
When Sportscaster Life launched on January 5th, one of the fresh content blog posts that went along with it was my Top Video Editors for Sportscasters for producing highlights and other digital content. Today I want to take a look at something probably a lot more commonly used and likely a lot more important and…
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.…
Video is a powerful tool in the sportscasting industry. I’ve been lucky enough to have taken a bit of a different route than most, doing some extensive technical training in television production before getting involved in play-by-play. That training included real-world work on a variety of different editing platforms ranging from free consumer products, all…
Interviews are a broadcaster’s bread and butter…and can often make or break a broadcast. A good interview will draw people in to a game, a bad one will send them running. While content, research and preparation are extremely important, the technical side of an interview is extremely important too, and when it comes to technical…
The internet has radically changed the sports broadcasting industry. Tie-lines, instant scores, social media and of course, live-streaming both video and audio. In Australia, where a sport like hockey is a fringe sport at best when compared to the mainstream culture, the technique of live-streaming games has exposed the sport to a new mix of…
While some prefer the trusty iPhone or a small pen-like voice recorder, others prefer the heft and features that a bigger model provides. Two popular audio recorders for broadcasters (and film makers incidently) are the Zoom h4n and the Tascam DR-40. With Zoom’s release of an updated model (the h6) geared more towards film makers,…