The News Review:
- John Madden Puts Down the Microphone
- Former Brewers broadcaster Harmon dies
- Sports groups pushing for monopoly says News Ltd.
- Sports of The Times Timeline Stretches 62 Years From Robinson to …
- Les Keiter 89; famed Big Five broadcaster
John Madden Puts Down the Microphone
New York Times
NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol announced today that. “It?s time” said Madden in a statement released by NBC Sports.
Former Brewers broadcaster Harmon dies
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Harmon whose career in sports broadcasting lasted 45 years was the Brewers play-by-play voice from 1970-79. Harmon also was a broadcaster for the Braves and NBC Sports. “Merle was a great friend and a wonderful partner in the booth and the memories he leaves us with will be cherished forever. His dedication to family and broadcasting were second to none and I will always be grateful for the latitude and direction he gave to me as I was entering the profession.
Sports groups pushing for monopoly says News Ltd.
The Associated Press
9 hours agoSYDNEY (AP) — Australian media group News Ltd. says a push by sports organizations to restrict reporting of their events is an attempt to monopolize coverage and allowing that by legislation would be an assault on free speech. Australia’s leading sporting bodies have told a Senate inquiry that the advent of online “news” reporting is affecting their revenue streams and could limit their ability to support grassroots participation. An increasingly intense dispute has evolved between the media as it has embraced digital delivery of news via Internet and mobile platforms and sports organizers who want the right to license in the digital media what is published beyond strictly breaking news. Cricket Australia the Australian Football League and Tennis Australia are among the administrators who appeared before the Australian Senate inquiry calling for the government to create laws or regulations to put limits on what media organizations can publish from their events on the Internet.
Sports of The Times Timeline Stretches 62 Years From Robinson to …
New York Times
Survival would have sufficed. She held her first-born Jackie Jr. and went through the usual agony in hailing a taxi that would take her anywhere much less Brooklyn. Skip to next paragraph.
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Les Keiter 89; famed Big Five broadcaster
Philadelphia Inquirer
16 2009 Les Keiter 89; famed Big Five broadcaster By Frank FitzpatrickInquirer Staff Writer Les Keiter 89 the local broadcaster whose inventive catchphrases provided a soundtrack for the Big Five’s Palestra heyday and whose popularity once caused The Inquirer to briefly halt its 76ers coverage died Tuesday in Hawaii. His wife of 61 years Lila said her husband died at Honolulu’s Castle Medical Center surrounded by his family. In addition to his memorable stint as the Big Five’s radio and TV voice during the 1960s Mr. Keiter also served as sports director for Channel 6. As a boxing announcer he called several championship fights including the historic 1964 victory by Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) over heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. Keiter moved to Hawaii in 1970 to start an advertising agency but soon returned to sportscasting.
