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By Arthur Solomon  For years, many years, I’ve been writing and telling PR practitioners […] ...
To celebrate the new baseball year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on the game’s all-time announcers that ...
A quiet fellow, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is beginning to get some well-deserved attention. He’s been with Miami for 15 seasons and won two titles. Michael Malone has also bounced around, four ...
On Friday, I got this unsolicited note from a man who had quite an impact on TV play-by-play. It was sent by Mike Patrick who had great influence on the NFL, college football, college basketball, the ...
The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs started on Monday, the first postseason of the new seven-year American TV deal with ESPN and Turner Sports. This is the first time there has been more than one NHL ...
When we began celebrating broadcasting’s 100th birthday, it was a salute to radio, born in 1921. American ingenuity began focusing on television before the war. But it wasn’t until after the war that ...
Tim Brando Tim Brando has covered college football and basketball nationally for 37 years. He began his network career at ESPN, before moving to CBS and is now at Fox Sports.. Brando is completely ...
Little has been said. The subject himself didn't realize it. Fifty years ago, Bill White, 87, was hired by the Yankees. He was the first Black play-by-play announcer hired by a professional team.
The Halby's: 2019 Sports Broadcasting Awards, Sports Broadcaster of the Year, sport by sport awards, Individual honors; National, Network radio, team honors ...
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 ...
Lesley Visser on sideline reporters: “It’s kind of become a metaphor for ‘female dumping ground’” Pioneer was first woman assigned an NFL beat by a major daily; Visser later became network TV's first ...
All-time, top-20 NFL broadcasters: Those who also played the game Sal Siino stacks 'em up based on popularity as announcer, on the field performance and value of card ...