Dave Goren, executive director of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated from the SI Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. Goren did play-by-play for the Orangemen football and basketball teams along with…
By Jarre Fees Back in 1957, a Salisbury, N.C., restaurateur Pete DiMizio had the idea to honor regional sportscasters and sportswriters whom he had met at the Greensboro (N.C.) Open Golf Tournament. Following DiMizio’s untimely death in 1959, Dr. Edward…
By Hillary Atkin Philadelphia is known as the City of Brotherly Love, and it’s also home to countless numbers of fans who love their local sports teams, like the champion Eagles and Phillies — who have been on top of…
As co-anchor of ESPN’s flagship edition of SportsCenter at 11 p.m., John Anderson is one of the nation’s most prominent sportscasters. He joined ESPN in 1999 after a long career in local broadcasting that began in Columbia, Mo., and included…
By Hillary Atkin Sportscaster Mary Carillo knows her way around a field, a gymnasium, an Olympic mountaintop — and most definitely, a tennis court. The versatile broadcaster played on the professional women’s tennis circuit from 1977-80, even winning the French…
By Jon Lafayette The sports world will be lining up against a new giant when Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal finally pushes into the end zone. Like Walt Disney Co., which owns 80 percent of ESPN, a leader…
By Debra Kaufman When two NHL Hockey teams — the Rangers and the Islanders — faced off in Madison Square Garden on March 24, the event made history, and not because of game play. With the production assistance of 3ality…
By Debra Kaufman At NAB 2010, new president Gordon Smith declared that broadcasters wouldn’t readily give up spectrum that the FCC — and telephone carriers — wants for mobile broadband. But behind the scenes, broadcasters intending to exercise that spectrum…
By Tom Petner In my first television job at a Philadelphia station, I occasionally enjoyed introducing myself as director of intercorporate communications. Translation: I was a mail boy. Sorting the mail was technically moving intercorporate communication. That puffed-up title was…
By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age On the face of it, $100 million is nothing to Procter & Gamble. The consumer-products giant spent $2.7 billion last year on traditional media and web-based banner ads, according to Kantar Media. So why should anyone…