With the death of Bob Uecker recently, the broadcasting world lost a Hall of Fame announcer, who was such more than a gifted broadcaster. It lost a broadcaster who, unlike the great majority of ...
Would you agree? The best-ever father and son network television duo (not local e.g. […] ...
It was announced late yesterday that Phyllis George passed on Thursday night. She was 70 years old. A former Miss America, George was the first woman who was prominently and regularly visible on ...
Fifty years ago this past February, Bill White was introduced to the media as the third member of the New York Yankees broadcast team. He joined Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. In the story that Maury ...
Think soccer, America and television and there’s one name that immediately comes to mind. Among broadcasters, there aren’t many who’ve been around the world game longer than JP Dellacamera. Not just ...
In his twenties, the prodigious Marv Albert was already the sports director of New York radio station WHN. The station ran an anachronistic programming format labeled MOR, middle of the road. The ...
Top 20 Sideline Reporters All-Time: (Editor’s Note: Marcus Gronauer spent a chunk of time doing a multi-part series on sideline reporters. He studied the history of sideline reporting which dates back ...
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 ...
in Spanish, in rival cities, Rickie Ricardo broadcasts the games of the New York Yankees and the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. His fiancée, Maria Berral, is also heard on the Philly ...
When we began celebrating broadcasting’s 100th birthday, it was a salute to radio, born in 1921. Home television ownership, a rarity during the 1940’s, grew in the post-war boom years of the 1950’s.
Four decades ago, most of the sports television universe consisted of the three New York-based networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC. Sounds very simple, right? Exclusivity was a very big deal to each of ...
You’ll need ‘em, that’s a promise. And, if you don’t use ‘em, you’re either lying – or have no pulse. Perhaps both. This isn’t a baseball story – although the main character is one of the greatest ...