Calling UConn Games is Not Easy

[Vancat]

I like Lobo a lot, and Meghan, too. Renee is funny and more 'contemporary' if you will, but she is fun to listen to. Crazy different styles!

Rebecca: ....... 😐
Meghan: uh huh huh huh! 😁
Renee: SQUEEEEE 🤩

 

[FanSince17]

Years ago when there was a single play-by-play announcer, and that was it, all they could do was call the actual action on the court and nothing else. I used to love listening to Marv Albert, among others, who would simply indicate a made basket with his characteristic call of “YES!”

But once networks started installing “broadcast crews” of 2-3 announcers, including “color commentators,” everyone had to justify their paychecks by talking ad nauseum. Once you start telling stories, it’s much harder to report on the actual game. I long for the days of Red Barber, Lindsey Nelson, Keith Jackson……..

Wow, nostalgia. I’m gunna watch the Natural when I finish here.
Single announcer? Even Barber had Mel Allen as a famous side-kick.
There have been broadcaster teams forever. Not even BY’ers remember single announcers. Do we remember when the play-by-play was read off a wire and the broadcaster made their own sounds like cheers and cracks of a bat.
I grew up in MD- ACC territory: Jim Thacker and Billy Packer.
In every walk of life, there are good performers and not-so-good performers. BTW Renee is a wonder of the world. What a human being! She has room to improve like we all do! What’s this, “get off my lawn” stuff??

 

[oldude]

Wow, nostalgia. I’m gunna watch the Natural when I finish here.
Single announcer? Even Barber had Mel Allen as a famous side-kick.
There have been broadcaster teams forever. Not even BY’ers remember single announcers. Do we remember when the play-by-play was read off a wire and the broadcaster made their own sounds like cheers and cracks of a bat.
I grew up in MD- ACC territory: Jim Thacker and Billy Packer.
In every walk of life, there are good performers and not-so-good performers. BTW Renee is a wonder of the world. What a human being! She has room to improve like we all do! What’s this, “get off my lawn” stuff??

You need to go back further. Mel Allen was the solitary voice of the Yankees going back to 1939. Red Barber was the solitary voice of the Reds & Dodgers for many years. They initially began working together for World Series broadcasts particularly as the Dodgers & Yankees began facing each other. Barber did move to the Yankees broadcast booth with Allen in 1954 for approximately 10 seasons.

But even then, it was not so much 2 guys in the broadcast booth telling stories as it was 2 guys alternately calling the play-by-play action on the field, and both Barber & Allen were great play-by-play announcers.

 

[FanSince17]

You need to go back further. Mel Allen was the solitary voice of the Yankees going back to 1939. Red Barber was the solitary voice of the Reds & Dodgers for many years. They initially began working together for World Series broadcasts particularly as the Dodgers & Yankees began facing each other. Barber did move to the Yankees broadcast booth with Allen in 1954 for approximately 10 seasons.

But even then, it was not so much 2 guys in the broadcast booth telling stories as it was 2 guys alternately calling the play-by-play action on the field, and both Barber & Allen were great play-by-play announcers.

Sorry, I was born in’57. I was a Yankee fan in the mid to late 60’s but I lived outside DC, Senators territory. I watched Chuck Thompson with the O’s, Ron Menchine with the Nats, Curt Gowdy on Saturday.