Uecker died on January 16, 2025 at the age of 90. He was one of baseball’s most beloved voices, best known as the radio ...
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 ...
Three radio hosts, Colin Cowherd, Dan LeBatard, and Doug Gottlieb were the subjects of an earlier review I did on national sports talk radio. Today, the review process advances to three other ...
NFL players are young and strong. Half of the team's radio voices are 60 or above! One is 80 and another 81. It's a tough gig to give up. Every team every announcer and their age. Surprising stuff.
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 ...
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 sprouted ...
The Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn’t grant the Pete Rozelle Media Award to just anyone. Think of the many qualified network broadcasters, so identified with the NFL, who haven’t been honored; Howard ...
Editor’s Note: Jake Baskin is a dedicated student of play-by-play and sports broadcast history. He has a particular passion for hockey. Jake assessed NHL broadcasters and stacked up the sport’s ...
A longtime buddy of mine, Vince Gardino, and his brother Robert, often toured gravesites of war heroes, movie stars, renowned athletes, great musicians and politicians. For years, they visited ...
Sports have taken hits through the years. Whether it’s been gambling, cheating, drugs or work stoppages, many root causes have been from within. You might say, ‘I’ve met the enemy, it is I.” Not this ...
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 ...
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.