User:Grillo.danielle/Broadcasting of sports events

Origin

The broadcasting of sports events (also known as a sportscast) is the live coverage of sports as a television program, on radio, and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing events as they happen. Sportcasters enviornment is usually in booth, sets, and radio or television studios. Depending on the sportscasters specific job it is a time sensitive job, especially when depending on a play by play, they cannot miss any action, and due to their job they have to be flexible with schedule. Sports broadcasters have a variety of sections to deliver footage and their job can provide postgame coverage and interviews with athletes and coaches. Sports casting is a big industry throughout the United States and world wide. Anything sports related, weather it's reading, watching, and hearing is a type of way sports broadcating is in media. Sports broadcasters do more than just voice over plays and matches, they must be apart of researching their sports history and knowing game statistics. Studying sports and using facts is needed in their job and making the games exciting and entertaining.

History

Before technology, broadcasting never existed and in doing so led to consequences like not being able to rewatch a game or match. Sports broadcasting did develope through verbal retellings which then led to being spread on media like the radio, television, and more. The first ever recorded sportcasting occured in 1911 in Kansas. The first recording had a gorup of people recreate plays of a football game, that were trying to learn of a play via telegraph, but wasn't official because no one was present. Ten years later in 1921 in Pittsburg, Pensilvania, the first radio broadcasting event occured of a boxing match. Then the first televised sporting event occured 1939, whcih was the summer olympics in the United States. In 1951, the first sports color telecast was a baseball game between the dogers and boston braves. As years went by more options were given to the public and the more popular sports broadcasting became. The first voice broadcasters happened, live broadcasting happened, and professional brodcasting happened. More options became available to the public whether it be on newspapers, radio, or television.

As the increase of poulation of sports events got bigger, so did the availabilities of where to hear and watch the broadcastings. Sports broadcasting also had an impact to the rise of American citizens being interested and being entertained. As more demand occured from more sports broadcasters, the programing networks got more advanced with the technology as well.

Ireland[edit]
The first live commentary on a field sport anywhere in Europe was when Paddy Mehigan covered the All-Ireland Hurling Semi-Final between Kilkenny and Galway on 29 August 1926. This game is credited with being the first mainly because the BBC was prevented from broadcasting sporting events before 7.00pm as a means of protecting British newspaper sales.