By R.L. Bynum Hectic travel schedule the norm for Wes Durham When football and into basketball seasons overlap, it’s always a crazy time for college beat writers. None of them deal with the airport-hopping madness that Wes Durham, the unofficial Voice of the ACC, experiences. He’s a sports broadcaster with many hats, and that… Read more »
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Media Musings: Like The Team, Canes Radio Broadcast Undergoes Transformation
By R.L. Bynum Canes simulcast means expanded duties for Campbell The familiar occupant who enthusiastically described Carolina Hurricanes games for years from the fifth-floor radio booth is gone. It’s from that booth in the arena named after a bank that Chuck Kaiton belted out the memorable 2006 call, “… over the crossbaaaaaar and the Hurricanes… Read more »
Media Musings: Meet Sara Civian, new Hurricanes writer for The Athletic
by R.L. Bynum From Boston to Triangle, Civian follows dream, her love of hockey The contrasts are stark for Sara Civian as she finishes her second week covering the Carolina Hurricanes for The Athletic Carolina. She grew up in Boston and was writing about the Bruins for radio station WEEI’s website before the move. But… Read more »
Media Musings: Sports Reporters Flourish in Florence Coverage
By R.L. Bynum Sports journalists pitched in on Florence coverage This wasn’t the time to “stick to sports.” Like September Major League Baseball call-ups, sports journalists around the Triangle and across the state added depth to news teams and provided the needed personnel to cover the scope of Hurricane Florence and its aftermath. Thursday, Sept…. Read more »
Media Musings: The Athletic Carolina is here. So is the N&O/Herald-Sun digital SportsPass.
by R.L. Bynum News & Observer, Herald-Sun offer sports-only digital subscriptions If you don’t care to pay for news content from one of the Triangle’s two newspapers but are willing to pay for sports content, The McClatchy Company is giving you that less-expensive option. Announced Thursday with a short video, The News and Observer and… Read more »
Mini-Media Musings: The Athletic Nabs Its Panthers Writer
By R.L. Bynum Lead Panthers writer at The Charlotte Observer headed to The Athletic The Athletic has lured some top sports writers away from newspapers but hasn’t always been able to get all its targets to jump. In two North Carolina cases, the subscription site has been successful with one target and has possibly failed… Read more »
Media Musings: Friday Night Augmented Reality
by R.L. Bynum Augmented reality comes to Friday night football Area high school football will enter a state of augmented reality this season … at least when it comes to two WRAL shows. AR has become increasingly popular in sports programming, and you’ll see a lot of it this season, beginning Friday night, on the… Read more »
Media Musings: One of NC’s best prep reporters goes from covering high schools to teaching at one
by R.L. Bynum Leaving prep beat he loves tough for Blake Could the days of a sports writer covering high school sports for multiple decades at a large newspaper be numbered? Earl Vaughan Jr. roamed the prep sidelines for the Fayetteville Observer for 43 years until 2016 and Tim Stevens did it for most of… Read more »