Marc is the television play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers basketball club. A 12-14 hour gameday will include research and reporting from morning warmups, two and a half hours of live analysis during broadcast, and then a post-game wrap-up. After a summer of broadcasting women’s olympic basketball in Rio, Marc encourages everyone to figure out what their gift is and to use it.
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>> My name's Mark Zumoff. I'm the TV play-by-play voice for the Philadelphia 76ers. First of all, typically I prepare all year around, just always absorbing information. A game day typically would be if the team hasn't played the night before a morning shoot around -- it's practice before a game. You get to observe the team; you talk with players and coaches. And then I spend about three or four hours with various resources -- reliable ones on the web, team-supplied information, that sort of thing -- and I formalize everything onto an Excel spreadsheet that I custom make. And I do that for two reasons: One, so I have information to refer to on the air; and two, so I can marry it up here so that I become glib and familiar with the information. And then I get to the site about two and a half to three hours beforehand. I confer with my producer. We talk about what our open is going to look like. And I schmooze with players and coaches some more. I do the open, we do the game, and then we wrap and go home. So it's about a 12- to 14-hour day from start to finish. This past summer I was the play-by-play voice for women's basketball at the Olympics in Rio for NBC. Typically I am a broadcast coach. So anything or anyone from college freshmen all the way up to big legal baseball announcers, to newscasters and weather casters, they come to me for help -- either their performance, their demo, or the all-important networking to the first job or the next job.
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