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Personal, comprehensive, accessible career development for aspiring news
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In what has become an “out of body experience,”, Marc Zumoff, is the television voice of a NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers. It’s happening because of three things, a lot of work, a little luck and learning to navigate what has become The University of Hard Knocks.
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Since 1977, Marc estimates he’s been live, on the air, more than 5,000 times. He’s been a radio news anchor, reporter and writer. In sports, Marc’s been an anchor, reporter and play-by-play announcer for basketball, football, hockey and other events such as bicycle racing, horse jumping and crew. He also has extensive experience in producing and editing on both television and radio.
After leaving Temple University in 1977 (Marc did not officially graduate until 1992, but that’s another story) he worked at a scrap iron and steel yard. He would send tapes to radio stations between stints driving a truck and operating heavy equipment. Marc’s first job in broadcasting came in July, 1977 at a small radio station in Trenton New Jersey. The station purported to be all-news, but in fact, was merely a “rip-and-read” outlet where news anchors simply read wire copy, while the rest of the operation was run on a shoestring.
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It seemed the station was off the air more than it was on the air, but it was a start. He made $110-a-week. During this time, Marc was also a bottom-rung production assistant at KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia. Those two days were Saturday and Sunday, leaving him, a 22-year old, to work seven days a week.
Marc’s break into sportscasting came while working at a station in Princeton, New Jersey in 1979. The play-by-play announcer for Princeton University football and basketball was relieved of his duties. Already a member of the station’s news team and ‘on the inside,’ he was able to learn of the opening before anyone else. Marc informed station management of his play-by-play abilities and, because they were strapped and needed a replacement right away, he quickly moved into the booth.
Coincidentally, a contact Marc had developed at KYW provided a huge break into Philadelphia sportscasting. That contact left KYW to become the public relations director of the local indoor soccer team. That team needed a television announcer and this person informed Marc of the opening. He auditioned and got the position—his first job as a television sportscaster--proving the value of making a keeping in touch with key associates.
The indoor soccer team televised its games on two outlets, including a regional cable channel called PRISM. After the indoor soccer team folded in 1982, PRISM hired Marc as a part-time staff announcer. Shortly thereafter, he was hired fulltime to anchor its pre-game, halftime and post-game coverage of Philadelphia 76ers basketball. This again, reinforced the value of ‘being on the inside,’ even if you’re not employed in your ideal position.
Marc held this post until August 17, 1994 at precisely 1:34 pm when he received the telephone call he had long-imagined getting. It was the call that informed Marc he was to become the television voice of the Philadelphia 76ers, the job he had longed for ever since he was a youngster growing up in the Northeast section of the city.
Now in his 15th year as the Sixers TV voice, Marc’s grateful for what has happened, though it didn’t happen without a lot of hard work, his Bachelor of Arts from The University of Hard Knocks and of course, a little luck. But that luck, as Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey once said, “is the residue of design.”
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