Sports Announcers - List of Sports Announcers, Broadcasting of Sports Events, Sharron Davies, Joaquim Maria Puyal, Greg Brady, Roberto Clemente, Jr., Khalil Ibrahim Al-Zayani, Jan C. Gabriel, Sherman Maxwell, Manolo Rivera Morales (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: List of sports announcers, Broadcasting of sports events, Sharron Davies, Joaquim Maria Puyal, Greg Brady, Roberto Clemente, Jr., Khalil Ibrahim Al-Zayani, Jan C. Gabriel, Sherman Maxwell, Manolo Rivera Morales, Color commentator, Jim Healy, John Fedko, Melissa Knowles, Race caller, Bill Shanks, Sideline reporter, Bruce Breslow, Bohdan Tomaszewski, Lia Cruz, Levan Reid, Jane Chastain, Andy Richardson, Josh Bogorad, Dariusz Szpakowski, David J. Halberstam, J.C. Piedrasanta. Excerpt: This is a list of sports announcers and sports commentators. Please note that those television and radio networks included must have national exposure, not regional. The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports as a television program, on radio and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing the events as they happen. The first broadcast of a sporting event took place on 11 April 1921 when Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania broadcast a 10-round, no decision boxing match between Johnny Dundee and Johnny Ray at Pittsburgh's Motor Square Garden. The first radio broadcast of a baseball game occurred on 5 August 1921 over KDKA from Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. Harold W. Arlin announced a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies. Two months later, on October 8, 1921, from the same Forbes Field, Arlin announced the first live radio broadcast of a college football game on KDKA when he gave the play-by-play action of the University of Pittsburgh victory over West Virginia University. On May 17, 1939, the United States' first televised sporting event, a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and Princeton Tigers, was broadcast by NBC from Columbia's Baker Field. (The world's first live televised sporting event had been the 1936...