Sports Media
Jamie Horowitz and Dan Shulman
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,...
Aging Sports Television Viewers
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...
Fred Manfra Says Goodbye
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,...
Baltimore Sports Media: Viviano, Cunningham, & Sandusky
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...
The End Of ESPN’s Mike & Mike
The time was April, 1985.The sports world was still reeling from Villanova’s stunning upset over mighty Georgetown in the NCAA men’s basketball national championship game.The Orioles were just a full season removed from their last World Series win, but roughly a month...
Pete Gilbert On The Future Of Sports Coverage On Local TV
When I began an internship at WBAL-TV in the spring of 1995, local TV sports was still living in the golden age. Vince Bagli, Gerry Sandusky and Mark Viviano were all on staff at WBAL. They have been awarded the Maryland State Sportscaster of the Year a combined 17...
Discussing The ESPN Layoffs
For months now, the only things that have swirled more strongly about the ESPN campus than NFL free agent and draft rumors were rumors of impending layoffs from the Worldwide Leader in Sports.But when the severance list of employees leaked out Wednesday, the force was...
Why Jim Nantz?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of mysteries and detective novels. I started, as a kid, with the Encyclopedia Brown series, then graduated to Dashiell Hammett and a little Mickey Spillane.Later, it was Walter Mosley and Baltimore’s own Laura Lippman,...