You’re sitting in a Hilton, Sheraton or Westin in Los Angeles, Chicago or Washington. You’re exhausted, and there’s nothing on the TV. So you decide to take the pay-TV plunge: For $5.95, your choices are “No Way Out,” a soft-porn flick, or… the Denver Nuggets. Welcome to the brave new world of ordering the NBA …
Get Ready for a Whole New Ballgame: Denver Does America Read More »
When Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent had to decide if and when to resume the World Series amid the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, a lot of folks whispered: Well, what’s best for television? In the cynical, big-moneyed worlds of professional sports and network TV, it seemed a logical question. …
“Well, folks, that’s the greatest open in the history of television, bar none… We’re still here. We are still, as [far as] we can tell, on the air and I guess you are hearing us even though we have no picture and no return audio. And we will be back, we hope, from …
ABC’s Visibly Shaken Michaels Continues to Describe Series of Emotions Read More »
“Kill the ump!” they once shouted at baseball stadiums everywhere. “Kill the announcer!” they now shout in baseball living rooms everywhere. When it comes to broadcasting the national pastime’s postseason, there’s a lot of anger out there. Just ask Al Michaels, who begins another journey through the turbulent airwaves Saturday as ABC’s World Series …
Recently the networks asked if I would rate their play-by-play broadcasters, because I’m a regular guy. They said they would pay me $25. I said I would do it for free. I compared the major broadcasters (excluding those who have been doing network play-by-play for less than two years). Announcers were …
