Views From the Booth podcast

On this episode, JJ and Joe discuss some of their broadcasting role models when they were growing up, those who they look up to currently and ways you can weave some of your favorite broadcaster stylings into your own.

It may just be the first two minutes of the show where you are talking in front of a camera, but it's an extremely important two minutes where you can engage and connect with the audience watching at home. In this episode, we discuss the importance of nailing your on-camera hits as well as getting over the fear of talking in front of an audience.

You've started broadcasting on a regular basis but you're trying to grow your brand even further. What do you do? In this episode, we discuss how you can build and grow you broadcasting brand and ways you can invest back into your brand to continue developing.

2020 has been a difficult year for sports broadcasters due to the lack of work with sports being canceled. And after the recent announcement regarding NCAA fall sports, we discuss the challenges that broadcasters have faced over the past few months on this show. Also, we took some time to dive into ways that broadcasters can still continue to develop their craft during this period.

In the third installment of our Broadcaster Spotlight series, we sit down with Mike Watts, the lead voice of the USL Championship amongst many other soccer competitions, to discuss his career. We also chat about his experience of calling the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, how best speak to current social justice movements as a broadcaster and the differences of calling games remotely as opposed to in person.

For sports broadcasters, your demo can go a long way in advancing your career. We tackle everything that goes into creating a great demo in this show, from the content you need, to good demo formatting, to promoting it to the right people and all things in between.

In sports broadcasting, there can be many ways where negativity can get to you. Whether it's social media critics, multiple job rejections or even allowing personal things outside of your work get to you before calling a game, these things can affect your performance on the air. In this episode, we share stories of our experiences in how we have handled negativity within the business.

In the second episode of our Broadcaster Spotlight series, we sit down with Alex Cohen, the voice of the Iowa Cubs, to talk about the journey of his baseball broadcasting career, including his experience working the Final of the 2019 WBSC Premier12.

Having unique content for every call will keep your audience engaged and staying right to the end of the broadcast. In this episode, we discuss the value of having good on-air chemistry with your broadcast partner, how storytelling can help educate the viewers and much more.

The business side of sports broadcasting and how you handle your finances is an extremely important topic in this industry. In this episode, we discuss techniques on how you can track your earnings from your gigs, manage your spending, knowing your value in the industry and much more.