Uecker died on January 16, 2025 at the age of 90. He was one of baseball’s most beloved voices, best known as the radio ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At some point in the early 80s, I was at a private function at Madison Square Garden. Don Imus was there too and must have been drunk, stoned or both. Don didn’t know me from a hole in the wall when ...

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 ...

America’s pioneering basketball announcer, Marty Glickman, gave the game an identity and a melodic adaptation for radio. He was the first voice who influenced generations for budding play-by-play ...

in Spanish, in rival cities, Rickie Ricardo broadcasts the games of the New York Yankees and the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. His fiancée, Maria Berral, is also heard on the Philly ...

In Brooklyn where I grew up, the nighttime signal of Baltimore’s WBAL Radio came in clearly. WBAL meant Orioles baseball and Chuck Thompson. Never ever gruff, nothing contrived, just a soothing, warm, ...