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 ...
Fifty years ago this past February, Bill White was introduced to the media as the third member of the New York Yankees broadcast team. He joined Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. In the story that Maury ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Get ready for a variety of colleges with new uniforms and schools with new conferences. The nationwide broadcast changes are dizzying in many ways, by Conferences too. CBS Sports has identified its ...