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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn’t grant the Pete Rozelle Media Award to just anyone. Think of the many qualified network broadcasters, so identified with the NFL, who haven’t been honored; Howard ...

Yes, cable television was beginning to blossom but the internet was still in some thinktank. CNN, ESPN and other early cable entrants were making inroads but the three major over-the-air networks, ABC ...

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 ...

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 ...

In February, 2020, it was announced that Lesley Visser would receive a lifetime achievement award from the Sports Emmys—the first woman to be honored as such It wasn’t that easy. Yet, she did it.

As we approach the end of college football’s 150th regular season, let’s salute the unforgettable team of eleven voices who will remind many of crisp Saturdays. For scores of years, these legendary ...