New podcast conversation with Kevin Belbey, Director of Sports Broadcasting for The Montag Group. He’s a sports broadcasting agent who provides great insight into the broadcaster/agent dynamic. Topics of discussion include:
Going to the Newhouse School at Syracuse and realizing that sportscasting wasn’t going to be his future.
Why getting an agent isn’t a path to get out of a career rut.
Episode 86 of the podcast features Charley Steiner, the radio voice of the LA Dodgers and long time ESPN Sportscenter anchor. Topics of discussion include:
How hearing Vin Scully as a seven year old led to falling in love with sportscasting.
His first reaction when he learned he was going to be working as the Dodger announcer after a lifetime of being a fan.
In this episode I chat with Bill Spaulding, broadcaster for Harvard, the Ivy League Network, and Olympics coverage on NBC. Topics of discussion include:
The pressure to sound smarter broadcasting to an Ivy League audience.
When he knew he wanted to be a sportscaster.
Going to Syracuse and why it was an easy decision.
How difficult is it to get into the Newhouse School?
Episode 84 features my conversation with Michele Tafoya of
NBC Sports. She’s one of the best sideline reporters of all time and a
pioneering woman in sportscasting. Topics of discussion include:
Her experience covering four different Super Bowls and how it’s not like any other game.
Finding the people she wants to interview on the crowded field after a Super Bowl.
Episode 80 features David J. Halberstam the owner of sportsbroadcastjournal.com, a website dedicated to in depth journalism covering the sportscasting industry.… Read More
