The Fourth Quarter of Sports Media, Part I — Kosner Media

Original Article: John Wall Street, by Ed Desser and John Kosner, January 8th, 2021

The advent of electronic sports media’s “first quarter” started a century ago, first as radio game recreations from press reports in 1920, and then as live on-site play-by-play (boxing and Pirates-Phillies baseball) in 1921 on KDKA in Pittsburgh. In the second quarter, broadcast TV…