The network’s Round 1 coverage on Wednesday will tip off with a three-hour preview show at 5 p.m. ET with host Jared ...

To celebrate the new year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s all-time broadcasters that will appear regularly through 2025. Today, Cincinnati Reds 1942-65 Voice Waite ...

David J. Halberstam David is a 40-year + industry veteran who served as play-by-play announcer for St. John's University basketball in New York and as radio play-by-play voice of the Miami Heat in ...

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 ...

Halberstam Thirty-four years ago, fulltime sports-talk radio was born in New York under the call letters of WFAN. Within a short time thereafter, the conceptual framework of 24/7 sports programming ...

In 1974 CBS president Bob Wussler hired Jane Chastain, who was a well-prepared, terrific sports reporter who understood pro ...

“You have to know when to hold ’em,” Kenny Rogers sang, “know when to fold ‘em.” Bob Elson, a gin rummy whiz, had pigeons in ...

Longtime network TV executive Kevin O'Malley helped pluck the rights to the NCAA Tournament from NBC 40 years ago. He takes us through the interesting granular that landed CBS the rights, beginning in ...

The ultimate gentleman, warm play-by-player and perhaps forgotten as a one-time Braves pitcher, Ernie Johnson Sr. called Atlanta baseball when Braves telecasts were pumped across America on newly ...

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 ...

How Some Announcers Have Taken the Charm Out of Watching a Baseball Game By Using ‘Math Baseball’ In Their Commentary. I n many ways baseball is the “everyman sport.” A person doesn’t have to be as ...

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 ...