Sports Broadcasting- #1

Walter Camp

Father of American Football

1899

NY Harold used Marconi's radio to broadcast America's Cup, a boat race

The Greatest Game Ever Played

~ 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts (23) and NY Giants (17)

Ice Bowl

~ 1967 NFL Championship Game between Packers (21) and Cowboys (17) ~ Average wind chill for the game was around -36 F ~ Considered one of the greatest games in NFL history

Monday Night Football

~ 1970 ~ ABC began Monday Night Football telecasts ~ Successful announcing team of Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell, and Don Meredith

Texas Rangers

~ 1972 named changed from the Washington Senators to the Texas Rangers ~ Their first manager was Ted Williams

Fox

~ 1993 Fox outbid CBS and won the rights to televise NFC football ~ Fox also took John Madden and Pat Summerall

The Baseball Networks

~ 1993, baseball formed a new partnership with ABC and NBC after failure of CBS deal ~ No rights fees would be paid

ABC's Wide World of Sports

~ American sports anthology that aired on ABC on April 22, 1961 ~ Hosted by Jim McKay

Bill Stern

~ Announced first remote sports broadcast and first telecast of a baseball game ~ Colgate Sports Newsreel ~ Inaugural class of American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame

Chicago Cubs

~ Became the first team to allow broadcasts of all of their games ~ Bert Wilson (During WWII)- "We don't care who wins as long as it's the Cubs" ~ Harry Caray- Song leader for "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during seventh inning stretch "Cubs win, Cubs win"

Ray Scott

~ Best known for his broadcasts for the Green Bay Packers ~ Broadcast Super Bowl I and II for CBS, and "Ice Bowl"

1960 Winter and Summer Olympics

~ CBS paid for the rights to broadcast the games in the United States ~ These were the first games to be televised in North America

Jim Brown

~ Cleveland Brown RB ~ In 9 seasons, lead the league in rushing 8 times 3x MVP ~ Only runner to ever average over 100 yards/game and over 5 yards/carry for a career

October 8, 1956

~ Don Larsen's perfect game in the Yankee v. Dodgers World Series

August 26, 1939

~ First MLB game broadcast on NBC ~ Red Barber called game between Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers

1879

~ First big college football game Harvard v. Yale ~ Ended in a tie

June 1, 1939

~ First big tv broadcast ~ First fight ever televised between Lou Nova and Max Baer

1959

~ First blimp shot ~ CBS installed a camera on the Goodyear Blimp, which gave aerial views of the 1960 Orange Bowl football game

May 17, 1939

~ First college baseball game was televised by NBC ~ Columbia v. Princeton

Graham McNamee

~ First sports broadcaster ever ~ Not connected to a specific team but covered more than 10 different sports during career ~ First ever Rose Bowl- 1927 ~ Called WS from 1923-1934: second longest consecutive streak ~ Highlight of his career-Gene Tunney v. Jack Dempsey "(the long count)"

Phyllis George

~ First woman sportscaster ~ NFL Today in 1975, co-hosting live pregame shows before NFL games

490 BC

~ Greece v. Persia ~ Athenian runner named Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens (25 miles) to announce the Greek victory and instantly died of exhaustion

1874

~ Harvard accepted rugby football as its own sport ~ First intercollegiate team

1926 Washington State University

Began the first course in radio broadcasting

1922 Princeton v. Chicago Football Game

October 28, 1922 First live game to be broadcast nationwide on WEAF in NY

Yankees and Dodgers

Tended to be covered the most

John Madden

Signed a contract with Fox that would pay him $30 million over four years, making him the highest paid sportscaster of all time

Mitch Albom

"The biggest currency athletes have is celebrity" Talentless athletes (Johnny Manziel, Tim Tebow)

The Called Shot

1932 Babe Ruth supposedly pointed his bat toward the bleacher seats a moment before hitting a home run there

Clem McCarthy

America's most recognized horse race broadcaster

Davis Cup coverage

August 4, 1921 Tennis was the second sport to be carried on radio

1891

Basketball originated in Springfield, Massachusetts

Bryant Gumble

First black nonathletic sportscaster

Robin Roberts

First black woman announcer

1911

First ever broadcast of a football game, Kansas v. Missouri

Grand Prix of LeMans

First live European sports event seen by Americans

Jocko Maxwell

Former high school athlete who may have been the first black sports announcer

1869

Harvard v. Oxford rowing race on Thames River; over an estimate of 1 million people watched

Telegraph

Helped provide early reports of baseball games to subscribers around the nation

June 8, 1966

Merger agreement where NFL absorbed all eight of original AFL teams and split into American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC)

Fort Worth Cats in 40s-50s

Minor League Team for the Brooklyn Dodgers

Phillip Wrigley

One of the first MLB owners to recognize the value of live coverage

St. Louis Browns

Originated in Milwaukee as the Milwaukee Brewers, and then moved to St. Louis as the St. Louis Browns. They are currently known as the Baltimore Orioles

Dizzy Dean

Star of the first sports telecast, The Game of the Week

April 11, 1921

The world's first ever sports broadcast was made on KDKA by Florent Gibson commentating on a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee

Baseball teams west of St. Louis

There were no baseball teams west of St. Louis in 40s-50s

Bob Robertson

Voice of the Tigers, was the last to voice re-creation on American radio

1895

Volleyball originated in Holyoke, Massachusetts combining characteristics of tennis and handball

July 1, 1987

WFAN is the world's first 24-hour-per-day sports talk station

Harold Arlin

World's first full-time announcer covered KDKA's first Pirates game against the Phillies

Jack Dempsey v. Georges Carpentier

~ July 2, 1921 ~ Andrew "Major" White was ringside at the fight ~ First sports event heard simultaneously on two stations: WJZ and WJY ~ They called in "the largest audience in history" with 300,000 people estimated to have heard one of the first radio broadcasts of a special event.. ~ The fight's promoter had billed the event as the "Battle of the Century" ~ More than 80,000 fans came to see the fight in person ~ First ever broadcast to a mass audience with calls of the fight relayed over a radio-phone

Pat Summerall

~ Known as NY Giants kicker and game winning 49 yard field goal ~ First sideline reporter for the very first Super Bowl ~ 22 season long partnership with John Madden

ESPN

~ Launched on September 7, 1979 ~ 30,000 viewers tuned in to witness launch of ESPN

1963 Army Navy Game

~ Lindsey Nelson was calling the game that day and the director told him they were going to attempt to replay a touchdown. "By golly, it worked." ~ Game was postponed bc JFK's assassination

Q-score

~ Measurement of familiarity and appeal of athlete names in the US ~ Higher the q-score, the more highly regarded the person is among the group of them

January 15, 1967

~ NBC and CBS televised Super Bowl I ~NFL's Green Bay Packers(35) v. AFL's Kansas City Chiefs(10)

October 22,1939

~ NBC became the first network to televise a pro football game ~ Philadelphia Eagles v. Brooklyn Dodgers

1927

~ NBC launched first coast-to-coast broadcast with coverage of the Rose Bowl (Stanford v. Alabama) ~ Babe Ruth's record of sixty home runs ~ Dempsey v. Tunny (The long count)

Joe Namath

~ Nicknamed Broadway Joe ~ Quarterback at University of Alabama and later icon for AFL and NY Jets ~ Finished career with LA Rams

Heidi Game

~ November 17, 1968 ~ AFL regular season game Oakland Raiders v. NY Jets game was running longer than expected, NBC cut away and switched to presentation of "Heidi," NBC received thousands of irate phone calls that night ~ Helped underscore the policy of all networks to carry sports events to their conclusion

Jim McKay and the 1972 Summer Olympics

~ Olympics overshadowed by the Munich massacre ~ Jim McKay had to act as news reporter; sports broadcasters can also report

Ted Husing

~ One of the first to lay ground work for modern tv and radio ~ Promoted Orange Bowl and it ended up being at a high school football field, so made it big over the radio ~ First sportscaster for CBS

CBS

~ One of the leaders in sports television (NFC football, NBA, MLB, NCAA basketball) ~ 1988, signed a five-year contract with MLB for $1.06 billion

Hail Mary

~ Pass made in desperation with only a small chance of success ~ Became widespread after 1975 NFL playoff game between Cowboys and Vikings when Cowboys QB Roger Staubach game-winning TD pass

Tommy Cowan

~ Receives credit as the World Series' first announcer ~ Sandy Hunt described the action by telephone to Cowan and repeated it word-for-word

KDKA

~ Station that broadcast the first sports play-by-play ~ Acknowledged as America's first radio station, having first signed on on November 2, 1920 ~ 1921-Began carrying Pirates games

1941

~ Ted Williams hits over .400 ~ Joe DiMaggio wins MVP for 56-game hitting streak

Al Michaels

~ Voice and face of Monday Night Football for 20 years ~ Currently at Sunday Night Football with NBC ~ Miracle on Ice- 1980 Winter Olympics U.S. v. Soviet Union ~ Loma Prieta- earthquake during game

Jack Brickhouse

~ Voice of Chicago Sports (Cubs and White Sox) ~ First sport broadcaster to have face shown on tv ~ 1981: retired from Cubs baseball and all of broadcast ~ Broadcast booth at Wrigley field named in his honor

Vin Scully

~ With L.A. Dodgers for 67 seasons-longest time any broadcaster has been with a single team in professional sports history ~ Youngest man to broadcast WS game- 25 ~"It's time for Dodgers baseball!" ~ Called highest rated MLB game in history- Game 7 Mets v. Red Sox 1986

Marty Glickman

~ Worked with NY Knicks, Giants, and Jets ~ First well-known athlete to transition from sports to play-by-play ~ With the NY Knicks for 20 years ~"Swish" ~ First NBA tv announcer ever- NY Knickerbockers(Knicks)

Red Barber

~"The Ol' Redhead" ~ One of the first big play-by-play announcers ~ Announced first MLB game ever ~ Worked with Reds, Dodgers, and Yankees ~"The bases are FOB (full of Brooklyns)" ~ Broadcast Jackie Robinson's debut

Marv Albert

~"Voice of Basketball" ~ Announced the first Knicks game at age 22 ~ Voice of the NY Knicks for 37 years ~ Currently lead announcer for NBA games on TNT ~ Covered Michael Jordan's most famous games ~ 1997 sex scandal

Jack Buck

~"Voice of St. Louis Cardinals"- 31 years ~ Worked with Harry Caray ~ Received a Purple Heart from WWII ~ Wrote and read poem "For America" ~"We will see you tomorrow night"

Mel Allen

~"Voice of the NY Yankees" ~ Hosted This Week in Baseball ~ 1960 WS: Bill Mazeroski hit walk-off ~ Plaque commemorating career at Yankee Stadium

Howard Cosell

~ABC's largest broadcaster ~"I tell it like it is" ~ Covered boxing the majority of his career (close relationship with Muhammad Ali) ~"The man they loved to hate" ~ Dec. 8, 1980: Gave report in the middle of game that John Lennon was killed

Jim Nantz

~First commentator in history to complete the broadcasting three-feat (Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and Masters in the span of 63 years) ~2014-Present: Lead play-by-play for Thursday Night Football