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Play-by-Playcast is a podcast for play-by-play broadcasters, about play-by-play broadcasters, by a play-by-play broadcaster. It’s a professional development podcast diving into the tips, tricks, experience, stories, process and preparations of some of the biggest and best play-by-play announcers in the business.
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Alex Del Barrio is a national TV voice on CBS Sports Network, seen jet setting across the country during college football and basketball season. Until recently ADB also worked in local television in his home market of the Rio Grande Valley and before that had two of the most unique experiences of a guest on this show: working as Alex Reyes in the W…
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Gideon Cohen went to Syracuse like many of us ... wanting to be the next great play-by-play announcer. An internship right out of college forever changed his path, however, and Gideon is now one of the top agents in sports broadcasting. Cohen talks about how he became an agent, how he sees broadcasting now that he's on the business side of it and w…
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It's the 200th episode of PxPCast and we've got a really great guest. Meghan McKeown is one of the rising stars of the college basketball broadcasting world ... and just so happens to have been TV partners with Joel when she got her start in color commentary. McKeown talks about doing her role well as an analyst, how she works with her play-by-play…
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Mike Roth has been a producer and director across events like the NHL, NWSL and maybe most notably the CrossFit Games. Rothy talks about the uniqueness of producing the CrossFit Games and discovering how to broadcast a sport on TV for the first time. Beyond that he talks about working together as a team on broadcasts.…
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Hey now! Hey now! Seattle Mariners broadcaster, and a national TV voice during the college season, Dave Sims is our guest this week. Dave talks about handling the big moments and processing the scene as you're making the call, his roots in broadcasting and media and how that's made him a better play-by-play voice, not being hesitant to ask the ques…
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Matt Schumacker is the house-selling play-by-play broadcaster. A full-time real estate agent, because he needed to find a way to put food on the table, his work and ability in the play-by-play world also paid off and now he also is seen nationwide on your screen covering the Big Ten, Chicago Sky, BIG EAST and more.…
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Drew Carter is one of the biggest rising names in the TV play-by-play business, joining the Boston Celtics broadcast this season and calling road games for legendary Mike Gorman. Carter talks about his first season in the NBA, working in local television in Alabama, getting his break with ESPN and what it means to put together a show.…
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Biko Skalla isn't a Broadcaster ... he's a Broadcast Entertainer and he's the voice of one of the most unique teams in all of sports, the Savannah Bananas. Biko talks about everything that's different about his job and everything that's, well, not all that different about what you'll find on a Banana's broadcast vs any other baseball call.…
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Everett Fitzhugh was announced as the first African-American team broadcaster in the NHL when the Kraken tapped the voice of the Cincinnati Cyclones to join their crew. Fitzhugh talks how he wound up in hockey, interviewing Doc Emrick, finding his was to the NHL, why he listens to everybody throughout the season and more.…
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Steve Raible is one of the most recognizable media personalities in the pacific northwest. The former nightly news anchor on KIRO 7, Raible has been on the Seahawks team as a player, analyst or pxp voice since the team's inception. He's called three Super Bowls and interviewed three presidents of the United States and this week he details all of it…
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Charley Steiner may be most well known as a cultural icon to fans of SportsCenter and the "This is SportsCenter" commercials, but his career is one of the more wide-ranging of those we've had on PxPCast. From radio to TV to PxP and literally from coast to coast and at the national level, Steiner has seen broadcasting from every perspective.…
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Scott Franzke went from MLB to the Midwest League. The Phillies radio voice was a member of the Texas Rangers crew early in his career, but he wasn't the one calling games. Scott wanted to call games, so he went to the minors and built his skills. Soon enough he was back in MLB and with the Rangers before finding his way to Philadelphia.…
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Dewayne Staats has been the TV voice of the Devil Rays, and now Rays, since their inception in 1998. Prior to his time in Florida Staats was with the Astros (along his mentor), the Yankees, Cubs and with ESPN. Staats discusses his climb, working with his analysts, what he's learned from the game of baseball and more.…
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This episode doesn't need much description. Marv Albert is one of the most recognizable voices in the history of play-by-play having been the voice of the Knicks for nearly 40 years and the NBA on NBC and on TNT. In this episode Marv discusses the influence Marty Glickman had on his career, how he found his own voice, Yes!, memories of Michael Jord…
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Emma Tiedemann was supposed to be starting her new job as the AA voice of the Boston Red Sox this spring. Hired as the lead broadcaster for the Portland Sea Dogs, Tiedemann makes the jump after calling games for the Sally League's Lexington Legends. The granddaughter of the legendary Bill Mercer, Emma talks about his influence on her, her own exper…
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Glenn Geffner is one of the radio voices of the Miami Marlins, after having served similar roles in Boston and San Diego and in the minors with the Rochester Red Wings. He's got an incredible perspective having worked in PR in three of the four above stops as well. Glenn breaks down his path and approach on this week's episode of the pod!…
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Spero Dedes burst onto the national scene early in his career when he called the 2004 Olympics for NBC just three years out of college. He became the voice of the Lakers in 2005 and of the Knicks in 2011. Following his stint at MSG, Dedes joined CBS full-time and works the NFL and NCAA Tournament. A product of Fordham and the Marty Glickman school …
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Ian Eagle is one of the reasons I'm in broadcasting. My career began in high school at the Bruce Beck & Ian Eagle Sports Broadcasting Camp and personally I think Ian is one of the top 5-10 pxp voices in the industry today. The voice of the Brooklyn Nets and a voice for TNT and CBS, Ian is heard across the NFL and NBA and in college athletics on a r…
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Mike Moore is the first of his kind to appear on PxPCast ... an executive producer and senior coordinating producer. Mike was one of the key players behind the launch of ESPNU in 2005 and spent much of his career as a senior producer with the ESPN family of networks. He now works with Moore Productions and on this episode of the podcast details the…
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Pat Hughes is the first broadcaster in Chicago Cubs history to call a World Series championship and he's been with the team nearly 40 seasons, having worked previously with the Twins and Brewers. On this episode, Pat dives in to the minutia of calling baseball on radio, the right way to weave in stories on the radio, having the right tenor and paci…
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Kevin Kugler should be calling the NCAA Tournament right now and gearing up for a run to the Final Four on Westwood One radio. Because of COVID-19 he's on Play-by-PlayCast instead. One of the premiere radio broadcasters in the business right now, Kugler discusses working with big-time analysts, storytelling, opinions, how talk radio made him a bett…
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Courtney Lyle is one of the youngest full-time broadcasters on the ESPN roster, still not yet 30 years of age. The Tennessee grad got her start with the SEC Network and working local news before beginning to work her way up the ESPN ladder. Today we talk travel stories, cracking the network level, broadcasting on twitter and more. Follow Courtney @…
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Well, I've got a soccer broadcast this weekend and it's my first in a decade. How did I prepare? I called one of the better soccer broadcasters right now in Jenn Hildreth and figured out exactly what I'm doing. Want an idea of what to do when you're tackling a new sport to your repertoire? Want to know how to call soccer? This is the episode for yo…
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Jeff Munn is the voice of ... well ... a lot of things. A PA voice of the Olympics, Fiesta Bowl, World Series and more, Jeff has also called pxp in the NBA, MLB, Alliance of American Football and NCAA. He's also skilled at media relations and wears more hats than you could imagine. All of it provides an awesome perspective on this week's PxPCast.…
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This week on PxPCast we talk about the best ways to help make a television broadcast work as a PxP broadcaster....through the eyes of the other side. ESPN producer/director Dave Tasca sits down with Joel at the LLWS of Softball regionals and talks about his role and how a PxP guy fits into the puzzle of a TV broadcast.…
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John Walters always wanted to be in play-by-play, working his way up through television and as the radio voice of the Drake Bulldogs. When he took over for the Cyclones he replaced his longtime friend and mentor who had passed away suddenly. On this episode we talk about he relationship with Pete Taylor, being humble, working in TV and radio simult…
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Sam Farber is one of the most respected names in PxP in Los Angeles covering high school sports and college athletics across a variety of TV platforms. Sam and I met through broadcasting the CrossFit Games in 2018 after years of knowing his name. On this pod he'll detail his rise through the ranks out west, how he calls a high school game, his prep…
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What is a Sod Poodle? Sam Levitt knows...no, seriously, the guy went out onto the prairie this week and met some. You can find it on social media. The AA Padres voice is very active on social media both on and off the air and is super creative in ways he covers his team. We dive into that, his voice, not becoming a doctor and more!…
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