• Lincolnton, NC P. A. Announcer Passes Away

    Lincolnton, NC P. A. Announcer Passes Away0

    Max Garner, who spent 37 seasons as Public Address announcer for Lincolnton High School in western North Carolina passed away on Thursday at the age of 76.  He had been announcing all the way up to his passing, serving as the school’s baseball and football voice all the way up through last season. Lincoln Times-News:

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  • The ABCs of P. A. Announcing

    The ABCs of P. A. Announcing0

    Back in 2011, Tom Lemery, a P. A. announcer in Morrisville, New York wrote this poem about being a P. A. announcer and it was posted on the original SportsAnnoucing.com blog, that very few people saw.  In going back through the old posts on the site, saw it, and decided we needed to republish it.

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  • How Do You Use Phonetics?

    How Do You Use Phonetics?2

    We all have our ways of tracking the correct pronunciation of names, whether it’s phonetically or other little notes that a name sounds like something else. We have also had that problem where someone writes something down, and we have no idea how to announce it.  It’s a common announcer problem.  Though that would make

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