Writing An Effective Itinerary & Script
- Announcing, Game Production, PA Announcements
- May 28, 2015
Pronouncing a person’s name is important, it is their identity and how people interact with them. It’s important to P. A. announcers to get names right. Recently, internationally known P. A. announcer Mike Markham put this thoughts on the topic on electronic paper and speaks to many great reasons we are so adamant we get
READ MOREThis time of year there are a lot of tournaments that take place with multiple games at the same time and playing the National Anthem gets kind of stale if you do it before every game. The general rule of thumb is to play the National Anthem before the first game of each session. A
READ MOREWith the start of scholastic sports seasons just around the corner, there will be circumstances in which the American flag won’t be displayed. Broken flag poles, lost flags, snapped ropes, or general oversight can cause the American flag to not be displayed. How, as P. A. announcers, are we to handle it? Simple, the US
READ MOREIt’s not as simple as Shakespeare might make it out to be in Hamlet. Do you let the situation be, or do you get involved in an indirect way, that is the question. And this comes up much more when there is an argument or other disagreement on the field in baseball. This question was
READ MOREA week-and-a-half ago we took a look at the use of the words postpone and cancel which only touched the surface of what can happen when circumstances outside of your control can wind up affecting the event you are announcing. Today, we take a look at other words, what they mean, and proper usage. SportsAnnouncing.com:
READ MOREThis time of year, the words postpone and cancel are tossed around like they are synonyms when in fact they are two completely different words with two completely different meanings. While both are verbs, they mean two completely different things. Don’t make the mistake and announce a game as being canceled when in fact it
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