broadcasting techniques Quotes

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

In primetime cable television today, the anchor or anchors, with an "s", have to drive the hour. The anchor has to be skilled enough to take it over. So if I find that it's getting boring or I'm not getting information I want, I'll take it over. I'll do a soliloquy, I'll ask an outrageous question, I'll wave my arms in the air, I'll lift it myself. It's like a quarterback that's back to pass and nobody's open.

Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.