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The RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY SPORTSCASTING course provides you with the opportunity to gain the "how to" knowledge at home. You receive individual instruction, critiques, suggestions and guidance from Columbia's national instructors, including professional sportscasters, Al Epstein and Lou Riggs. The objective is to learn and to improve. Columbia's sportscast training course is for men and women of all ages and backgrounds. It will provide you with the basic elements you will need to know in order to prepare for a successful sports broadcast. You never know when your station manager, program director, etc. may ask you to do the play-by-play, color commentary, sports report or an interview. The course will give you the "hands-on feel" of the demands and challenges of sportscasting, The course will guide you and impart practical knowledge, with home study convenience, in your own time frame. For your lessons you may submit an audio effort, a VHS video or both.
RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY SPORTSCASTING will help you learn more about the broadcasting business. Sportscasting is great fun, can be very glamorous and is personally rewarding whether you work at it full time or part time.
Course materials will not be issued in increments; all five phases will be issued at registration. This will allow the student to complete the course in a minimum of five months or in a maximum of twelve months. Therefore, the student will have the option of choosing from among different sporting events during a year's time.
RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY SPORTSCASTING (Prerequisite - Enrollment In Radio Announcing).
5 Comprehensive Instructional Phases 250 Clock Hours
CURRICULUM
Phase 1 BASIC INTRODUCTION TO PLAY-BY-PLAY SPORTSCASTING This is a detailed discussion of the fundamentals of play-by-play. How to prepare the basic information needed for the play-by-play sportscast. How to call the event. Objectives of the play-by-play announcer. Your assignment includes three to four minutes of play- by-play, either a "live" game or one off your television set.
Phase 2 A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC PLAY-BY-PLAY SPORTSCASTING This includes preparation, delivery, energy, pacing, enunciation and phrasing. Also, use of spotting boards, statistics and equipment. Your "survival kit." Problems associated with a sportscast. Use of press guides, press releases and newspapers. Your assignment is to tape record a "live" game, to develop your sportsboard and to record three to five minutes of play-by-play.
Phase 3 AN INTRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES AND AN INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS REPORTING This develops the interview open and close. What to ask, how to interview a coach, player, sportswriter or anyone else. How to prepare for the interview. Developing a flow to the Interview. Emphasis on "asking the question." This phase also includes an introduction to sports reporting. How to put together a sportscast. Your delivery, what to include in the sportscast. Your assignment includes a three to five minute sports interview and a two-minute sports show.
Phase 4 ADVANCED PLAY-BY-PLAY TECHNIQUE AND DELIVERY How to prepare for an entire sportscast. A discussion of handling mistakes in a play-by- play sportscast. How to prepare the pre-game, half-time and post-game shows. Discussing the role of the color commentator. Developing a theme for the game. Preparation of your sportsboard. Your assignment will be a three to five minute play-by- play of a "live" (high school, junior college, college, professional, etc.) game.
Phase 5 FINAL AUDITION PLAY-BY-PLAY Final assignment - putting it all together. The basic elements to make a good broadcast, preparation, delivery and energy. Preparation for your resume, cover letter and audition tape. How to go after your first job. The future of play-by-play sportscasting. Your assignment includes the preparation of your sportsboard, recording a "live" game and recording three minutes of play-by-play action.
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