Sports Broadcasting

1. Sports Broadcasting By Matthew Deal 2/1/12

2. Earnings • A sports broadcaster in radio makes on average $47,860 a year. While a sports broadcaster on television makes on average $60,680 a year. • Two factors that could affect how much a sports broadcaster makes are how much experience they have had and what type of college degree someone has.

3. Educational Requirements • To go into sports broadcasting someone would need to at least get their Bachelor's Degree. • Some of the courses that someone would take are: journalism, sports history, sports media, mass communications, and a couple of others courses as well.

4. Entry Level positions • One way someone would get a job as a sports broadcaster would be by being interviewed to be someone’s replacement and to learn from them until that time. Another way to get a job in this career is by getting an internship with a team or broadcasting station and doing a good enough job to get hired by them. • Two ways to get a promotion in this career would be by moving from radio broadcasting to television broadcasting. The other way would be by broadcasting for the minor league team and getting moved to broadcast for the pro team. these can be done through hard word, dedication, and along with some luck as well. • To be able to not only get into sports broadcasting, but to get promotions as well a person needs to be able to be enthusiastic about what they are broadcasting as well as convey the information to the public effectively.

5. Nature of Work • 5 tasks that a sports broadcaster would perform on a day-to-day basis are: • Interview guests • Find relevant information involving the athletes involved with the sport • Know past and current history of the sport • Find out rumors that are spreading around the sport’s league • And be able to inform the public of the sport at hand.

6. Working Conditions • On a typical sports broadcaster work day they would normally work about 5 to 7 hours a day. • They would work about 4 to 6 days a week (depending on the sport). • They would work about 6 months a year. • They would have to travel around the country with the team for their games.

7. Job Outlook • There are 32,520 people currently working in sports broadcasting (radio and television). • There is expected to be a 7% increase in sports broadcasting openings over the next couple of years(about 34,796 jobs), but while television is expected to increase, radio broadcasting is expected to decrease due to increased use of television and decreased use of radio broadcasting.

8. Advantages and Disadvantages • Advantages of being a sports broadcaster are: • (if you love sports) getting to be around sports all the time during the career • Get to travel the country • I personally would get to do what I love. • Disadvantages of this career would be: • Being on the move constantly throughout half the year • The salary is not that great, but is ok • And there would be occasional criticism from people.

9. Personal Skills/ Why this Career is a Possibility • Sports broadcasting is a career possibility because: I love sports, to talk about sports, and sports is one of my biggest passions. • Although it does not pay a lot, I still would be paid to travel the world and I would have half the year off to work on another job, like accounting, to still make enough to support my family.

10. Ways to Prepare Myself for this Career • Three ways to prepare for sports broadcasting are: • To learn how to get into the business • Watch and learn from current sports broadcasters • And go to Pearl Cohn’s basketball games.

11. sources • Mymajors.com/careers-and-jobs/sports-broadcaster