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• n  a broadcast of sports news or commentary
• v  broadcast a sports event

• Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special .
• Born in Mississippi, reared in Florida, Barber picks up about $15,000 a season for announcing the Brooklyn games, adds another $15,000 to his income with a 15-minute sportscast .
• In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match.

News & Articles

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• KATC Wins 11 First Place Associated Press Awards
  KATC took home eleven first place awards from the Louisiana Associated Press this afternoon. KATC was recognized for the coverage on the search for Mickey Shunick --- awarded first place for spot news, general news, investigative reporting, and continuing coverage. Travis Webb won for both his Sportscast and his story on the Teurlings dads who watched their sons play ball. Rob Perillo won for ...
  June 15, 2013 - KATC 3 Lafayette

Quotes

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• Norman Chad in Washington Post
  As sportswriter Norman Chad wrote in The Washington Post in 1985: "He's the only guy in town who can show you five minutes of tape in a four-minute sportscast."
• Bob Barker in Hartford Courant
  I went in, talked about airplanes for about half an hour, and I had a job in radio. I wrote local news, and I did a sportscast,Barker says. "Then I became a commercial announcer. I did station breaks and things like that. And I read news,...