Just this past April Brent Musburger received the Pete Rozelle award for “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.” The question is: what took so long ...

In 1957, NBC started airing a weekend MLB Game of the Week. It essentially assigned the play-by-play to Lindsey Nelson. Much of the business work required is salesmanship. At that point on Saturdays ...

Another weekend of College football; The depth of telecasts from the Eastern Time through the West is gripping and overwhelming. Look it over.

Some of the commentators and event analysts of the recently concluded Paris Olympics were considerably better than those in the last few Olympic Games televised by NBCUniversal. But that doesn’t mean ...

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 ...

The man worked like a horse and often drew get praise. He unfortunately died, born on September 7, 1960 and passed last week on April 20, 2024 Howie Schwab was both an old soul souls but a very young ...

Like it or not, TV is still considered an analyst’s medium. The role of a second announcer evolved slowly, mostly in the 1960s. Few of the early telecasts were defined and established. It took lots of ...

Willis Reed reminds me of bad times and good for the Knicks. He played his college ball at Grambling in Louisiana, earning a scholarship there in 1960. These were still ancient days for radio and ...

When Bob Fishman graduated Boston University he wanted to get into broadcasting, and when WCAU in Philly hired him as a stage manager he thought he was on his way. That is, until he realized one of ...

Baseball broadcast historian Curt Smith, author of The Presidents and the Pastime, also penned the seminal book, Voices of the Game In 1962, ABC television named Curt Gowdy to broadcast the ...

At 82, Dave Van Horne still has baseball’s strongest cords. If he’s lost an octave, I can’t find it. Did he lose some of his fastball in recent years? Who doesn’t? Dave’s still a man of noted ability, ...

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.