Vin Scully could have made as much money reading bedtime stories as doing play-by-play. If you’ve never heard the former Dodger great, go online and listen. Note how beautifully he used his voice as an instrument.
It’s the single most difficult aspect of sports broadcasting to master.
These three tips will help you master your voice as an instrument.
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A sports talk show host told me that after he had unsuccessfully applied for a job, he asked the program director to critique his work.
I replied, “Oh my, why did you do that?
Here are three reasons you don’t want to ask hiring managers to critique your work.
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In the old days, doctors made house calls. They brought with them a black kit filled with the essentials for the job — things like stethoscopes, syringes and bandages.
Play-by play broadcasters should also take a kit to work every day.
Here are 14 tools that should be in your play-by-play kit . . .
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It’s the middle of your play-by-play season and you’re feeling the grind to find new things to say about your team and the players on it.
What do you do?
A baseball broadcaster told me, “I find myself struggling to mix things up on an everyday basis. I feel like I’ve already said everything there is to say about a player or team. There’s always talking to the players before each game, but it becomes a struggle to talk to every single player and memorize all that information for the broadcast.”
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In my first radio job in McPherson, Kansas, I hosted Bulldog Sports Weekly, a weekly coaches show featuring the head football coach of McPherson College. We did it from Wendy’s on North Main Street in McPherson. The highlight, besides the fact that I loved the coach Dan Thiessen, was free hamburgers, fries and Frosties.
The challenge was having enough content to last for the hour.
These six tips will help you prepare a better coaches shows.
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If you were starving and needing to catch a fish, would you fish in a lake that has more than 200 fish, or would you fish in a lake with just one fish?
Unfortunately, trying to land a Division I football/basketball play-by-play job is like fishing in a lake with one fish and hundreds of people trying to catch it. One company, Learfield IMG College, manages most of the schools.
You must accept that looking for a DI play-by-play job is a process that is largely out of your control.
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Drew Carter, a senior at Syracuse University, is the winner of the 2019 Jim Nantz Award. The award is presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding collegiate sports broadcaster by Sportscasters Talent Agency of America.
It’s the fourth time in the 11-year history of the award, and the first time since 2015, that the trophy has been earned by a Syracuse student.
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Pitchers at the University of Florida used to swim as a regular part of their training. It’s well documented how Tom House, the old pitching guru, used to have his pitchers throw footballs to improve their throwing motion.
Baseball has long been a sport that is conducive to unusual training methods. The same goes for baseball broadcasters.
Here are nine uncommon tips for baseball play-by-play broadcasters.
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A sports broadcaster in California applied for a job in-state. He didn’t anything from the employer for a couple weeks so he sent a follow up. He mentioned that one reason for applying was that he and his family regularly vacationed in this community. He finally heard from the employer two weeks later, set up an interview, and got the job.
He won with polite persistence.
These do’s and don’ts will help you create a strategy for following up your sports broadcasting job applications.
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There is a sports talk host in the South who is beside himself because his program director says he needs to improve his ratings but he’s not giving the host guidance for how to do it.
Here is a six-pack of ways to improve your sports talk show.
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