Please Stop With the No Announcer Broadcast Shtick
"Perhaps the biggest issue I have is there’s nobody there to set the scene, or to build drama in key moments. Those big sequences in a game need a play-by-play announcer to let you know just how important this situation is to the game."
There’s Good Ways to Broadcast Bad Teams
How do broadcasters handle calling the dog days of a team that's playing poorly? Andy Masur asked a couple of announcers in that position.
There Is Only One Way to Fill-In For John Sterling: Be Yourself
With Sterling out of the booth for those games, opportunities to fill-in will present themselves to a few broadcasters. The opportunity is awesome, but so is the task of ‘sitting in’ for a legendary play-by-play announcer.
Anatomy of an Analyst: Ray Ferraro
“I did get some advice early on, it’s not an accumulation of word count,” Ferraro told the Hartford Courant. “If you don’t have something to say where you can provide some context then there’s no need to say it. If the audience thinks I’m talking too much, then I probably think I’m talking too much.”
How To Fix The Media’s ‘Breaking News’ Problem
Why is it breaking when a player that was injured in a game, is still injured and won’t play in the next game? A player that will be a free agent in three-years signs an extension in spring training and that’s breaking? Nope. Never. Uh uh. No way.