by Milton Kent | Oct 22, 2017 | Sports Media
When Jemele Hill returns to work Monday as co-anchor of ESPN’s 6 p.m. SportsCenter, she’ll find a very different atmosphere than the one that existed two weeks ago when she was suspended, one where the oxygen of unfettered speech may have vanished.And that lack of...
by Milton Kent | Aug 18, 2017 | Baltimore Ravens, Sports Media
The Ravens’ defense and special teams aren’t the only folks having a good exhibition season. Their former head coach, Brian Billick, isn’t doing so bad himself.Billick is having a nice time in the broadcast booth on the simulcasts of the team’s preseason games. Not as...
by Milton Kent | Jul 4, 2017 | Sports Media
Typically, summer holidays are not the time for big news to be made in any industry, let alone the sports media business.Yet, within the span of a few hours Monday, two seismic, but unrelated events made their own fireworks ahead of Tuesday’s fireworks.Of the two,...
by Milton Kent | Jun 15, 2017 | Sports Media
Here’s the good news: It only seems that you’re growing older waiting for local teams to win titles.The reality is, you really are aging if you’ve been watching their games on television.That’s the finding of a study produced this month for Sports Business Daily which...
by Milton Kent | Jun 5, 2017 | Baltimore Orioles, Sports Media
When Orioles radio play-by-play man Joe Angel turned the top of Sunday’s broadcast back to Fred Manfra, it may have marked the first time in 24 years that Manfra got top billing. Too bad it was in his last game. (You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.) Manfra,...
by Milton Kent | May 25, 2017 | Sports Media
One of history’s most iconic photos is that of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin meeting in Yalta in early 1945 to discuss how Europe would be divvied up after World War II.Though no one...
