“Bosh rebound, out to Allen, Allen…BANG!” shouts Jeff Van Gundy, the broadcaster for the Miami Heat. Broadcasting is a profession that requires speech and writing skills to announce live sport games for viewers to listen. When broadcasting a live game, the main goal is to keep the spectators entertained (Ferguson Publishing Company 72). Sports casting is an underrated profession because of how important their role is to the game. Broadcasters not only entertain fans but also add exciting commentary that explains the game and gives details about statistics. My goal in life is to become a play-by-play broadcaster for professional sports. To properly explore a sport broadcasting career, the educational requirements, the working conditions and the salary and benefits are vital factors to consider
Before applying for a broadcasting job, educational requirements must be met. Graduating high school is an important first step on the road to become a sports broadcaster or announcer. According to the Ferguson Publishing Company “Television sports broadcasters who deliver the news in sports, usually have Bachelors degrees in communications or journalism” (73). Most play-by-play broadcasters for radio stations have journalistic skills. It is essential for broadcasters to have journalistic skills because before they announce a game they must have a surplus of information about the players, coaches, and even history. Additionally, broadcasters need excellent communication skills. Justin Hoke from Sport Casters states “Other requirements are having a nice speaking voice, excellent verbal and interviewing skills, a pleasant appearance, and a solid command of sports in general” (Hoke 1). The Ferguson Publishing Company explains “ take classe...
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...nally, understanding how much money I will be making and the benefits that will come due to broadcasting are important. In the future, I hope I am sitting in a press box screaming because Lebron James just hit a game winner in double overtime.
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At every level in life people use goal setting to chase and achieve a desired solution. John Swales tells us that, “a discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.” (220) Goals are a worldwide starting point for a lot of different things that does not exclude basketball. Personally
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Many NCAA basketball players who make the decision to enter the NBA are not mentally prepared to deal with the responsibilities of life in the NBA. Young players depend on others who influence them or help make bad life decisions. What the young players visualize as the reward for playing in the NBA is the big money and with that big money make many mistakes financially. In th...
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Athletes are being paid hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to entertain us. They work less hours than the average person and make considerably more. Athletes all around the world are paid handsomely because they are talented and have extensive knowledge of their sport. But, is that knowledge and talent really worth what they are earning every season? Compared to some of the most common and needed professions are athletes really earning their paychecks? It’s time to take a deep look into what requirements besides natural ability athletes really need? How many hours are they expected to put in a week and what their job really is.
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Women in sports demand quality assurance for their hard work. Sad to say this is not implemented in the sports “world” of women. “One of the theories behind this is that society doesn’t like to see women in roles that go against the norm of what a woman “should be” (Rodriguez).” Fortunately this stems from ignorance and prejudice beliefs. Especially through the media, both of which can be learned. The media can alter sports viewer’s opinions by relaying positive messages toward women’s sports. As well as sports authoritators distributing equal pay for equal work. The abundant amount of support that the media and viewers allocate will allow a higher amount of equality for women in the sports industry. This kind of support will lead women in sports salaries rise and eventually match the hardship of achievements as a minority in today’s sports
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Over the past decade or so, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of women dominating in their respective sports. As well as, seeing women dominate in their professional sports, we’ve seen women become more prominent in broadcasting, and reporting on sports as well. An occupation that once was male dominated, is not so much anymore. These strong female figures, such as Ronda Rousey, Venus and Serena Williams, Maya Moore and Erin Andrews are making waves and names for themselves in sports history with their notable athleticism, feministic views, and sports knowledge. These great women are making a statement that sports are not just for men, but also for both men and women, and sports previously where only men participated are starting to see women enter that field. Even in a male
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Journalism as a reporter career requires classes that should be taken while she is in high school. The classes are: English, Journalism, History, Social Studies, Communication, Typing, and Computer Science. Since all these classes have been taken, it will be good also to take speech courses because it will help her to feel comfortable in interviewing skills, which are required to be a successful reporter. Later in college it would be good to take pre courses such as a foreign language, Math and Science (Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center).
INTRODUCTION The Society demands that the men who minister to its health be in the highest sense of the word professional men professionally trained, professional in their ethics, professionally responsible. Society demands professional training and professional conduct of the men who minister to its needs in legal matters. The fact that society demands less of the men who minister through news to its knowledge and attitudes is one of the great and dangerous inconsistencies that have given shape to the twentieth century (Schramm, 1947, p. 1). 90). "