You can work towards this role by starting with an advanced apprenticeship as a junior journalist. You'll need to work your way up from commentating at a local level and applying for promotion when you've got more experience. You'll need to show employers that you have the sports knowledge and commentating skills that they're looking for. You'll need to have some practical experience and be able to show you have a real enthusiasm for sports commentating. The Sports Journalists Association has more ideas about where to look for work experience.
You can apply directly to employers if you've got some of the relevant skills and knowledge needed for this job. You'll usually need a background in sport or journalism.
As a sports professional, you may start off as a co-commentator or summariser, offering a specialist opinion on the action and tactical insights, before progressing to lead commentator. Competition for jobs is very strong and very few jobs are advertised. Building up a network of industry contacts can help you find out about vacancies. You'll need to record examples of your commentating on CD, DVD or online so you can show your skills to potential employers.
You could join the Sports Journalists' Association for training opportunities and to make industry contacts. You can find out more about careers in sports commentating from The Pips. You could work on a sports field, at a recording studio or at a sports arena. Your working environment may be crowded, outdoors some of the time, noisy and you'll travel often.
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He understood what we were looking for and was able to deliver. He was unbelievable, I can't say enough good things about how great Doc was to work with. Doc was calling teams to get the right pronunciation of certain player's names. Doc was going home at night and we gave him the context for the next day, and Doc was writing his own script, in his own language, his own words and coming back in the next day, so he could deliver the best content possible.
Doc took it upon himself to make himself sound good by doing a lot of homework for us. At this point, can you say whether Doc and Eddie are signed on for future games? They'll definitely be there. As you can imagine, we don't want to change because of the amount of work you have to do with the commentators every year. We entered into a longer term agreement. We don't want to have to roll the dice whether we're going to get new commentators again, or get them back next year.
So I can definitely say, they'll be in the game next year for sure. The fox scaled the towering concrete wall to join the fans in attendance. Jim Hayford reportedly used the N-word when speaking to Seattle players on two separate occasions. The protestors brought hand-made signs onto the field during the game.
Playing the role of spoiler, the Tigers executed a wild fake punt to take an early lead over rival No. Tulsa was knocking on the door in the final minute, but the Bearcats stood tall to preserve the undefeated season.
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