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No one ever doubted Musburger’s brilliance in the studio. So, the question remains, why did the NFL wait until more than 50 years had gone by to give Brent this award.
By Arthur Solomon  For years, many years, I’ve been writing and telling PR practitioners […] ...
To celebrate the new baseball year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on the game’s all-time announcers that ...
CURT SMITH is the author of 18 books, including Voices of The Game, recently named by Esquire magazine among “the 100 Best Baseball Books Ever Written.” His latest is the official Hall of Fame book, ...
Longtime network TV executive Kevin O'Malley helped pluck the rights to the NCAA Tournament from NBC 40 years ago. He takes us through the interesting granular that landed CBS the rights, beginning in ...
The who's who of sports broadcasting have weighed in on the death of Phyllis George, the sports broadcast pioneer and Miss America winner in 1971. George joined CBS' NFL Today in 1975. Broadcast ...
All-time, top-20 NFL broadcasters: Those who also played the game Sal Siino stacks 'em up based on popularity as announcer, on the field performance and value of card ...
The Heidi Game 50 years later; Those who remember the end won’t forget it, those who don’t, won’t believe it NBC's play-by-play voice Curt Gowdy: "The Heidi Game was the greatest promotion the AFL ...
Sideline Reporting: Underappreciated or Unnecessary? The early history and those who fashioned the role The first two, Jim Lampley and Don Tollefson, were students when hired to work a 1974 ABC ...
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 ...
Jon Miller was the voice of ESPN Sunday night baseball for 21 years when the network was at its peak. The games were carried in an exclusive window. No other game were scheduled then. Miller's dulect ...
Bill Brown: “After 30 years with the Astros, I thought it was time – before fans get critical” Longtime MLB Voice: "Play-by-play is probably the only job other than Supreme Court Justice that allows ...