January 2018

In early August, I was offered a position doing sales and covering an NCAA D2 football and basketball team. I won’t share the school or location out of respect for the person who eventually took the position. However, I was excited that things seemed to be falling into place! Sarah, my fiancée at the time, and now wife, was also offered a teaching job in the area, so it seemed that I was going to be back as the voice of a college team.… Read More

We’ve all read that in sportscasting, and life in general really, it’s not what you know but who you know. However, unless you attended a broadcast powerhouse school or have the last name Buck, it’s hard to build helpful relationships with people in the business organically. Nonetheless, to be successful it’s something you need to do.… Read More

In this episode I chat with the longtime radio broadcaster for the Dallas Cowboys, Brad Sham:

• The advantage of starting out as a broadcaster in high school.

I wrote a few weeks back about a day when everything went wrong . It’s with great delight that today I’m writing about a week full of awesome broadcast opportunities that, for the most part, went spectacularly right!

On Monday, I received a text from my friend Adam Hildebrandt, who is the radio voice of Oral Roberts University, informing me that he was in need of a fill-in to cover a men’s basketball game at North Dakota State in Fargo.… Read More

Small market play-by-play broadcasters have to wear many different hats. You may have to sell ad space, report on the news and weather, or play music for the masses. If you work at a station with multiple sportscasters, sometimes that means putting on the analyst headset for somebody else’s play-by-play. When you’re used to driving the bus, sitting in the proverbial passenger seat can be a difficult adjustment.… Read More

In this episode I chat with Steve Cotton, the radio voice of the Marshall Thundering Herd.… Read More

I’m writing this on New Year’s Day 2018, a day that marks the two-year anniversary of when I began following the Blueprint to Broadcasting Success. I came up with this program with the idea that it would be an effective way to improve my sound on the air, as well as a way to help build and strengthen relationships in the industry.… Read More