COMMENTARY: NO CHICK, NO CHINKS LOCAL BROADCASTS FIND THE PROPER BALANCE.Byline: Bob Keisser Staff Writer How do you follow Chick Hearn? You don't, and that was the pleasant and sensible approach KCAL kcal kilocalorie. kcal abbr. kilocalorie kcal kilocalorie. (Channel 9), KLAC-AM (570) and Paul Sunderland Paul Benedict Sunderland (born March 29, 1952) is an American sportscaster based in Los Angeles, California. Over his broadcast career, Sunderland has covered almost every major sport played in Southern California. took Thursday night. The first Chick-less Lakers See Lake poets broadcast in 36 years had a nice balance of respect for the ailing sportscaster and professionalism. TV outlet KCAL and radio flagship KLAC devoted their pregame shows to Chick before turning over the broadcast to Sunderland, Hearn's replacement while he's recovering from heart surgery, and analyst Stu Lantz Stuart (Stu) Burrell Lantz (born July 13 1946, in Uniontown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the current television commentator for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). . On KCAL, studio host Alan Massengale and ex-Laker James Worthy n. 1. A fish, such as the lake trout, that lives in a lake. 2. A ship used on lakes. and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, icon and also updated his status after surgery with live interviews with Hearn's doctor and his wife, Marge. Those were wrapped around a recent interview with Hearn where he talked about how much he enjoys his work and treasures his consecutive-games streak, which ends at 3,338. KCAL also conducted an Internet poll asking fans to vote for their favorite ``Chick-ism,'' with his more recent ``refrigerator'' call winning in a landslide landslide, rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock from a higher elevation to a lower level under the influence of gravity and water lubrication. More specifically, rockslides are the rapid downhill movement of large masses of rock with little or no hydraulic flow, . At halftime, KCAL aired different interviews with Marge and Dr. Michael Soltero, with the doctor saying Chick probably could have called the game if they could have stretched a microphone that far. KLAC host Larry Burnett fielded phone calls from fans who wanted to share their memories about Chick and pass on their best wishes. Lantz and Sunderland handled the transition to the game neatly, with both wishing Chick well and Lantz predicting Hearn would return quicker than the projected six-week recovery process. They then moved on to the night's business, a proper tone lest the show sound like a eulogy. Sunderland, a former U.S. Olympic volleyball standout who does a variety of sports for Fox Sports Net, did a solid job on play-by-play. It's not a criticism to note that one immediately missed the inflections of Hearn's voice and the way his words and voice shapes a broadcast. Likewise, Hearn always made simulcasts seem easy, and they're not. It's difficult to craft a telecast that doesn't sound too wordy and a radio broadcast that doesn't have dead air. Chick's absence also was a reminder that Lantz is underrated as an analyst. He makes solid points in a concise way. Sunderland will continue to do play-by-play until Hearn returns. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Paul Sunderland had the task Thursday of filling in for Chick Hearn. Pat Sullivan/Associated Press |
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