EP 081 Len Clark Sportscasting Academic
This episode is with Len Clark, the former Indiana Sportscaster of the Year for the NCAA DI Evansville Aces. Since then he’s been a broadcasting and journalism instructor at Notre Dame, a podcaster for Irish Illustrated, an entrepreneur, and expert in emerging media technologies. We discuss a wide variety of topics including:
- Randomly walking into a radio station and asking for a job as an 18 year old.
- Receiving degrees from five schools and the value of education for a sportscasting career.
- How his passion for teaching and academics led him to becoming the voice of the NCAA DI Evansville Purple Aces.
- How the success of his student broadcasting program led to him giving up his position at Evansville.
- Becoming one of the earliest proponents of streaming broadcasts in the mid 1990’s.
- Taking jobs in Alaska and Nebraska.
- We passive aggressively troll each other about our favorite college football teams. Nebraska and Notre Dame.
- Getting involved with the Notre Dame media family.
- How sports media in Europe compares to here in the United States.
- The value of being an entrepreneur as a sportscaster.
- The DISC System as a sales and business tool.
- Using the DISC System as a networking tool.
- His opinion of the future viability of sports audio.
- The future of play-by-play and sports talk specifically.
- The value of the NSMA.
- Keeping up with rapidly changing technology.
- Deciding which new tech products to latch onto and which ones to ignore.
- Smart speakers and other broadcasting technology to know about for the future.
- His broadcast horror stories.
- His favorite broadcasters to listen to on a day off.
And much more!
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