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It’s Halloween. A day to celebrate all things scary and spooky. When it comes to sports broadcasting, few things are truly ‘scary’. However there is always the risk of a serious injury or a major technical glitch that can turn a normal game into a broadcast horror story. I’ve been very fortunate in my career.…
Let’s start a debate about social media language. In the past, Sportscaster Life has covered the various aspects of social media. How to create cool GIF content, great social media management tools, and social media party fouls…among other things. For the most part, when it comes to content and conduct online, the general rule of…
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Ask any professional worth their salt and they’ll tell you the number one thing that is required in just about ANY industry to move up the ladder and succeed is networking. In movies and television, the saying is “it’s not what you know, but who you know”. In sportscasting, that rings even more true with…
The single most important thing a broadcaster can do is prepare. You’ll see it all the time in spotting charts and research on teams and histories. Important match-ups or niche stats gleaned from hours of online digging. But it also rings true to the tech side of your broadcast, in particular having broadcast backups for…
The notion of testing equipment is somewhat of a no-brainer for me. You arrive at the venue, you setup and test your equipment. But I can’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had with fellow broadcasters that went something along the lines of this: Me: How’d your game go the other night?Them: I had…
A while back, we discussed the importance of secondary skills in sportscasting, the notion that sportscasters could no longer just rely on being the voice of a team, station or school, and that they needed to bring more to the table…especially when it comes to securing full time, broadcast related employment. So by now you…
Today we’re back and talking about secondary skills. It’s been over a month since Sportscaster Life saw some new content posted. A website that has prided itself on producing regular, weekly content dropped off substantially through late February and into March and the reasoning is a great message and lesson learned about sportscasting. Since the…
One of the most challenging aspects of sportscasting has to be dealing with coaches. If there is a bigger ‘chalk and cheese’ in sports media, I’m not aware of it. Sportscasters want the inside information whereas coaches want to ensure a bubble around their team and players and while on many occasions these two sides…
