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Cover photo: Mike Weyerhaeuser/Actionplus/Newscom Cover: Pitcher Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers is interviewed on the field by a cable television reporter. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walters, John (John Andrew) Sports broadcasting / by John Walters. pages cm. -- (Careers off the field) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4222-3271-2 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4222-3264- 4 (series : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4222-8529-9 (ebook) 1. Television broadcasting of sports--Juvenile literature. 2. Radio broadcasting of sports--Juvenile literature. 3. Sportscasters--Juvenile literature. 4. Sports journalism--Juvenile literature. I. Title. GV742.3.W357 2016 070.4’49796--dc23 2015011890