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Reimagining sports media without sports

By Pranay Malempati | Sports Writer

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an obvious effect on sports, causing essentially all professional and collegiate athletics to either cancel or postpone play. What may be less apparent are the effects this pandemic has had on sports media and broadcasting.

John Morris, “Voice of the Bears” and Assistant AD for Broadcasting said that while Baylor pays him a salary, the “screeching halt” of sports has hurt many sports media members financially.

“There are a lot of guys I know who are paid on a per-game basis,” Morris said. “And all of a sudden, they lost a bunch of basketball broadcasts or baseball and softball broadcasts, things like that.