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1. By: Kerry Blodgett
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2. What is Sportscasting? Sportscasters:
write and deliver sports news
Interview sports players, coaches and other sports personal
Cover games and other sporting events
3. Training and Education Bachelors degree in journalism or Mass Communications
Experience at a school newspaper, or broadcast station
4. School Subjects Needed English
Journalism
Computer Sciences
Speech
5. Abilities and Interests Abilities
Creative thinking
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
Ability to quickly and accurately describe what happening. Interests
Sports
Such as baseball, football, hockey, basketball, tennis and golf.
6. Career Cluster Arts, Audio/ Video Technology, and Communications
7. Career Interest Creator
Investigator
Influencer
8. Working Conditions Hectic
Lots of pressure
Little or no preparation time
In the studio
Out on at the Event location, such as a baseball park or a football field
9. Dress Depends on the sport and the conditions.
If I sportscaster is in the studio they were clothes like any other newscaster. They wear a nice shirt and pants or a skirt.
If a sportscaster is at baseball game they maybe wearing kakis and a polo.
If they are at a cold weather sport they usually are wearing kakis and a warm coat.
10. Earnings Median annual earnings for news reporters on Radio and Television was $38,050 as of May 2006.
11. Future Outlook Future outlook for News Reporters
Little to no change
2% change
Competition for jobs in large metropolitan and national broadcast stations My Future outlook in Sportscasting:
Working at Comcast Sportsnet in Chicago, Illinois
OR
Being the Cubs Play- by- Play
12. Interesting Facts In the past 60 years women have become Sportscasters.
The first radio broadcast of any sport was in 1920.
13. Likes and Dislikes Likes
Always busy
Fast pace
Can share my knowledge about Sports history.
Dislikes
Little preparation time
14. Works Cited Career Discovery Encyclopedia
www.bls.gov/oco/