ESPN's first ten years: The dozen anchors and personalities who …
WEBFeb 11, 2019 · Top 12 ESPN personalities through its first decade,1979-1989 . In 1979, the country had all of 16 million cable subscribers. With spartan quarters, few viewers and little resources, ESPN launched its first program on September 7, 1979. It was available in 1.6 million cable homes.
Sports Broadcast Journal - Play-by-Play Broadcast News
WEBSports Broadcast Journal’s goal is to serve a mix of announcers, executives, producers and other interested followers of sports broadcasting, podcasting, webcasting and the growing world of digital media. There will be a focus on game coverage, particularly play-by-play and other popular sports programming.
Fox Sports’ Curt Menefee: From a small school to a huge job; from …
WEBFeb 12, 2020 · Curt Menefee, intechangeable with Fox NFL Sunday, is now doing XFL play-by-play. He talks about the NFL studio show, the future of the XFL and Joe Buck. Menefee emerged from small Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
NFL Films' heritage: The Sabols, John Facenda and Harry Kalas; …
WEBJan 22, 2019 · NFL Films’ heritage: The Sabols, John Facenda and Harry Kalas; Scott Graham has deep voices to fill Walking through the corridors is a march through NFL history, supported by miles and miles of film and narrated by the deepest pipes in America
How CBS snared the NCAA Tourney rights from NBC 40 years ago …
WEBLongtime 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 1982. At the end of the current extension, 2032, CBS and the NCAA will have been joined at the hip for 50 years. It all started 40 years ago.
Bracketology: Who won? ESPN's Lunardi, CBS' Palm, Fox' Schwab …
WEBMar 19, 2019 · Months of extrapolating and prognosticating are behind them. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, the ncaa.com and Big Ten Network’s Andy Katz, CBS’s Jerry Palm, and Fox’s Howie Schwab can sit back and enjoy the madness like millions of the rest of us.
The colorful career of Brent Musburger, A prominent 50 years …
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · That Cosell and Musburger haven’t gotten it has to be politics. That Bill King hasn’t gotten it is pure ignorance. But on Cosell and Musburger, who were sometimes compared (and at one point ABC courted Musburger to essentially take over Cosell’s role, as I recall, before he eventually wound up there), they were controversial figures.
CBS' Amanda Balionis sidestepped golf growing up and is now …
WEBSep 1, 2021 · It's a long journey, an emotional roller coaster. And CBS' Amanda Balionis has come through with flying colors. The warmth you feel on the set isn't contrived. It's who Amanda is as columnist Dan Mason leaned interviewing her.
41 for 41: Ranking ESPN's top 41 studio personalities in its 41 …
WEBToday, September 7th, ESPN turns 41. Yes, on this day in 1979, the all-sports network limped on the air, one of the very early national cable program providers. These are the 41 top men and women who contributed to the enormous growth of ESPN. One thing for sure. In 41 years, failure at ESPN is not an option .
Instant replay continues to evolve as sports’ most important …
WEBFeb 7, 2019 · Instant replay continues to evolve as sports’ most important technology, from accuracy to good TV viewing Getting the call right, league nerve centers and expert commentators in the booth have turned replay into its own industry of sorts