Sports+Analyst

​So you want to be a Sports Analyst? A Sports Analyst is someone who finds out and reports about a particular sporting event or sport either through writing or reporting. People could do a show on all the sporting events of the day like Sportscenter or you couuld do only a particular sport like NFL live or baseball tonight. You could also write a column in the newspaper that might just be in your county alone or syndicated around the country

Qualifications

There are many Qualfications needed to be a successful Sports Analyst. There are different charcteristics neede for the two seperate fields of analyzing sports either broadcasting or Writing and reporting. If you are a Broadcaster you need to know what you are talking about and you have to be avery good speaker in that you speak cleary and you keep the listeners attention. If your a writer you need to know how to write extremily well and for both you must make sure that your facts are correct and accurate because if they are not you could lose your job or in the case of writing get sued. To be a sports analyst you require a B.S in Public Broadcasting and it would only help your cause if you went to Graduate School before you started looking for a job. 

Job Description As mentioned in the title a Sports analyst is someone who watches Sporting Events and then broadcasts or writes about them. The statrting pay is around 30000 dollars for people who have a B.S in Sports Journalism or Public Broadcasting. Most people usaully start off Broadcasting for a Local Station either in Radio or TV or people write for a city or County paper. Although the pay is low to start off with it increases drasticallly for someone who broadcasts regionally either on TV or radio to on average 126 thousand dollars per year. The pay again increases by leaps and bounds when you are someone who broadcasts nationally to on average Two hundered Thousand dollars a year. A minimum wage for an Anchor on Sportscenter is Three Hundred thousand dollars a year as a start off salary. In Fact Chris Berman host of Sunday NFL Countdown makes annualy between Six Hundered Thousand and Onee Million Dollars a Year. Most Sportscenter Anchors and all anchors on the ESPN family of networks make on average Half A Million Dollars A year.

Chris Berman Doing the 1999 AFC Confrence game Halftime show.

Pros and Cons

Pros 1. Chance of a very High Pay 2. Not Long Work Hours 3. Get to Be on Television or TV 4. If Broadcast Regionally or Nationally you can get to talk to high profile athletes. 5. Not a job where your life is on the line

Cons 1. Low Start off Salary 2. Sometimes would have to report Sports News Through the night like if you start off on SportsCenter your first shift is from 12AM to 5AM 3. Could offend an athlete 4. If you Report false information you could get fired 5. You Could get nervous broadcasting nationally. ​ Glossary

B.S- Bachelor of Science in Sports Analyst case you would want to get a B.S in either Sports Journalism or Sports Broadcasting. ESPN- Family of networks that devote 24 hours to reporting sports. Channels include ESPN ESPN 2 and many others. Graduate School- place you attend afteer college to major in a particular subject.

Sunday NFL Countdown- Airs every Sunday from 12PM to 1PM hosted by Chris Berman and Tom Jackson. Regional Broadcast- A broadcast that only goes to a particular region. Examples are Northeast, Southeast, Southwest etc.

Local Broadcast- A broadcast that only goes to a particular city or county.

National Boradcst- A broadcast that goes to the Entire Nation. Some examples are Sportscenter, CBS Sportsline, Fox NFL Today. ​

​ About The Author John is an eigth grade student who loves talking, writing, and playing about sports. He wants to be a Sports Broadcaster or analyst one day hopefully for a big Network like Espn or Fox NFL Today.

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