Since 2003, Nancy Newman has served as a studio host and reporter for the YES Network. Over the course of her career, Nancy Newman has hosted an array of shows including the multiple award winning program ‘ Batting Practice Today’ pregame for the New York Yankees.

Sports broadcasting began as an experiment by a University of Minnesota professor, who created a radio station where students could listen to commentary of the college’s football games. To communicate the final scores of World Series games, WWJ, a Detroit, Michigan station, used the radio to relay them to fans. At the time, radio did not exist in a widely-accessible, consumer level form, so fans enjoyed it via listening to stations in public.

The first full commentated broadcast of a live sporting event happened in 1921. The local radio station KDKA broadcast a baseball game between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, played at Forbes Field. The announcer informed listeners on the game’s proceedings via notes from an observer on the field.

In the succeeding decades, sports commentators honed their skills, learning to transport listeners to games with narrated descriptions alone. In the 1940s, when transistor radios made the technology cheap enough for wide commercial use, consumers began enjoying radioed sports programming from home. The first radio station solely dedicated to sports opened in 1964.