P. A. Announcement: National Anthem
- PA Announcements
- January 21, 2015
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READ MOREPronouncing a person’s name is important, it is their identity and how people interact with them. It’s important to P. A. announcers to get names right. Recently, internationally known P. A. announcer Mike Markham put this thoughts on the topic on electronic paper and speaks to many great reasons we are so adamant we get
READ MOREA few years ago, an interesting situation arose during a high school baseball game. The visiting team’s fans were upset at the home team’s announcer for announcing the home team with more enthusiasm while playing walk-up music for the home team’s batters, songs for rallies while on offense, out songs while on defense and creating
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READ MOREThere seems to be a recent trend, and this could really have more to do with broadcasters getting behind the P. A. mic, but there seems to be a lot of combining a player’s first and last names into one jumbled mess in some cases. When you consider the main role of the P. A.
READ MOREIn the world of P. A. announcing, there are a lot of seemingly minor annoyances that, to an announcer, are almost the end of the world. A good P. A. announcer takes pride in his or her work and sometimes one of those little annoyances to someone looking on from the outside, can really make
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