Jon Chelesnik, owner of STAA, joins the podcast to critique the play-by-play calls of legendary fictional announcer of the Cleveland Indians Harry Doyle.… Read More
Sportscasters covering small college or minor league teams all have one thing in common: lots of time spent on busses. Living in geographically isolated Aberdeen, South Dakota ,I’ve been on bus rides of more than 8 hours to Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, and Utah — just to name a few (I wrote about one of them here ).… Read More
Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbs and nouns. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clip of pre-existing play-by-play synced to video and come up with five different ways to call the same sequence of events.… Read More
Last Sunday, I turned the dirty thirty. It’s the age you aren’t actually old, but people in their teens and twenties think you’re old. I’m one month away from finishing my 8th basketball season as a professional sportscaster and while there are still endless volumes of books that could be filled with all the stuff I don’t know, here are a few things I wished I had known coming out of school.… Read More
A conversation with 40 year vet Randy Grossman, Sports Director for 107.1 KDSN in Denison, Iowa.… Read More
If you’re a sportscaster, you likely have a love/ hate relationship with road games. We get to travel to unique places and see cool things on the dime of the team we cover. We also get sent to places where, unless you have friends and family to visit, there is no reason for anyone to intentionally go.… Read More
Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbiage. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clip of pre-existing play-by-play synced to video and come up with five different ways to call the same sequence of events.… Read More
“Sports radio” is a format many of us are extremely passionate about. But to have a passion for “sports radio” you first must have a passion for “radio” in general. Most sportscasters either are or once were music jocks, salespeople, or programmers who developed a deep love of all different formats and the many ways the medium can entertain a variety of people.… Read More