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The network’s Round 1 coverage on Wednesday will tip off with a three-hour preview show at 5 p.m. ET with host Jared ...
To celebrate the new year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s all-time broadcasters that will appear regularly through 2025. Today, Cincinnati Reds 1942-65 Voice Waite ...
Marv Albert, Don Criqui, Tom Hammond, Verne Lundquist, Paul Maguire, Brent Musburger, Mike Patrick, Tim Ryan, Dick Stockton and Bob Trumpy These octogenarians and the one nonagenarian, aged 80 or 90 ...
In 1974 CBS president Bob Wussler hired Jane Chastain, who was a well-prepared, terrific sports reporter who understood pro ...
“You have to know when to hold ’em,” Kenny Rogers sang, “know when to fold ‘em.” Bob Elson, a gin rummy whiz, had pigeons in ...
In this third installment in our series, Sports Broadcast Journal continues our journey down memory lane. Today, we shift our focus to the Top 20 all-time announcer, football cards. In our next ...
On Friday, I got this unsolicited note from a man who had quite an impact on TV play-by-play. It was sent by Mike Patrick who had great influence on the NFL, college football, college basketball, the ...
The ultimate gentleman, warm play-by-player and perhaps forgotten as a one-time Braves pitcher, Ernie Johnson Sr. called Atlanta baseball when Braves telecasts were pumped across America on newly ...
Charles Barkley The media is in a state of change. College Football and basketball. You’ll note that Networks are very different now. The NHL had only 6 teams until 1967, the NBA had only 9 clubs in ...
Longtime network TV executive Kevin O'Malley helped pluck the rights to the NCAA Tournament from NBC 40 years ago. He takes us through the interesting granular that landed CBS the rights, beginning in ...
Radio was born 100 years ago. TV came along after World War II and grew slowly. Live sports have been a big part of the growth. This is a timeline of TV sports history, a chronology that will trigger ...
At the outset, let’s revisit Sports Broadcasting’s Mount Rushmore which we unveiled last year. For their lifetime achievements, the faces of Bob Costas, Howard Cosell, John Madden and Vin Scully are ...