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 ...

JERRY IZENBERG’S NEW BOOK, LARRY DOBY IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE STORY OF A BASEBALL PIONEER. IT IS SET FOR NATIONAL RELEASE ON TUESDAY! Fred Sternburg, a distinguished sports public relations executive, ...

As State sisters, stare one another in their rivals’ eyes, the longtime contenders, Michigan State Spartans and Michigan Wolverines are now marred for a variety of reasons. CBS, Fox, ABC NBC and Fox ...

The outstanding names by broadcast market in the 60s and 70s: The ten NBA teams in 1967 and prime voices: The NBA was established in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. In 1949, it merged ...

On Friday, I got this unsolicited note from a man who had quite an impact on TV play-by-play. It was sent by Mike Patrick who had great influence on the NFL, college football, college basketball, the ...

The NFL expanded to 32 teams for the 2002 season with the addition of the Houston Texans, where it has remained ever since. Twenty years later, the television and overall media landscape have shifted ...

Network broadcasting has come a long way dealing with point spreads since Jimmy The Greek used to get around it by saying, “The Cowboys will win by a field goal.” That, of course, was nearly 50 years ...

ESPN will televise the Stanley Cup Final in the United States for the first time since 2004, as it will every even year through 2028 under the terms of the current television deal with the NHL. Each ...

The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs started on Monday, the first postseason of the new seven-year American TV deal with ESPN and Turner Sports. This is the first time there has been more than one NHL ...

David J. Halberstam David is a 40-year + industry veteran who served as play-by-play announcer for St. John's University basketball in New York and as radio play-by-play voice of the Miami Heat in ...

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.

The NBA tipped off its 2021-22 schedule last week. As for broadcasters, the off-season was active. Lots of changes. The biggest is the retirement of Marv Albert whose first NBA broadcast was in 1963.