To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s all-time announcers to appear regularly through the year. Today, the only man whom a U.S. President asked ...

Kevin Harlan went to Kanas University and studied under Tom Hedrick. He is still as sharp as a knife. Harlan does the NBA, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was announced late yesterday that Phyllis George passed on Thursday night. She was 70 years old. A former Miss America, George was the first woman who was prominently and regularly visible on ...

Visser: When I asked then Patriots’ coach Chuck Fairbanks about one of his linebackers he said, “Why don’t you go to lunch with my daughter, you’re about the same age.” For decades, Lesley Visser’s ...

Announcers say things on-air or circulate tweets that end their careers. Do they deserve a death sentence? It’s been a rough stretch for broadcasters. Only the guarded survive. Some voices spend an ...

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 ...

Because of an historic pandemic and record breaking game cancellations, 2020 won’t go down as the year of the play-by-play voice. It’s been the year of alternative programming, be it in the studio, ...

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 ...

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 ...