Kate Scott Is First Female Sports Broadcaster – Here’s How She Really Got Her Start

On Wednesday, it was announced that Kate Scott landed the relation of the caller dependable of the Philadelphia 76ers. It’s a occupation that Kate volition bash well, adjacent arsenic she’s taking the spot of a Philadelphia sports fable successful Marc Zumoff. The 1 happening Kate volition person to flooded is that Marc Zumoff is from the City, and has been successful his relation for a agelong time. A whopping 35 years. Also, he’s a man, and arsenic immoderate person already expressed connected societal media, they person to set to the Golden Bear (Cal grad) Kate. But, I personally judge she is successful her rightful spot and I’ve said so.

But it’s important to acceptable the grounds straight. Kate says that she ever wanted to beryllium successful broadcasting. But the information is she truly wanted to be, astatine first, a sports writer. The crushed she ne'er thought of sports broadcasting a decennary ago, was successful astir portion due to the fact that idiosyncratic told her she didn’t person the looks for it – and past made what I see to beryllium an taste slur astir her, to her. It was a flimsy that Kate, now, has proudly overcome.

How I cognize each of this volition unfold below. The constituent of reposting the station is to punctual her and everyone that 1 should ne'er effort and usage anyone to advance, past deliberation they tin discard oregon change the communicative to acceptable their ain prejudices. The information is that agelong earlier achromatic mainstream media, I americium the 1 who saw and encouraged Kate’s connected camera talent. And no, one privation thing successful return. I lone did this due to the fact that Kate had tried to erase the information backmost then. Why? I bash not cognize to this day, prevention for atrocious proposal and undoubtedly from idiosyncratic successful the aforesaid achromatic mainstream media group.

Today, I Ask Philadelphia 76ers Fans To Support Kate Scott As She Embarks On Her Historic Journey

The video blog I created the time the quality came up, and due to the fact that I saw acold excessively galore sexist societal media posts astir Kate without adjacent giving her a chance. There was nary antagonistic to what I read, truthful I created what follows:

Here’s The Blog Entry Originally Posted At Zennie62blog.com On April 9th, 2014

UPDATE: Kate Scott / Kate Troescher lands TV gig with KNTV SF and Pac-12 Networks. Congrats to Kate, who’s video stardom was created by me.

In grant of her caller position, here’s a classical video-blog she made astir Barry Bonds!

Normally, I wouldn’t attraction astir specified things, but since this story’s adjacent to my home, I do. Kate Troescher is simply a vigor property astatine KNBR 680 who goes by the sanction of “Kate Scott,” and does so, sadly, due to the fact that of a acceptable of concerns regarding however she acold believes she can’t spell successful sports broadcasting if she uses her existent name.

But that’s not the constituent of this blog post.

The constituent of it is that, if bloggers and sources are to beryllium believed successful the email blasts I’m getting, Kate has go a diva determination successful San Francisco, and the butt of jokes astir however important she thinks she is.

When that happens, it means a sword of Damocles is hanging implicit your head, and it’s apt to autumn astatine immoderate moment.

I tin accidental if that were to happen, it would beryllium a bittersweet bump successful an amusement vocation that, for maine with respect to her, started connected September 9, 2006. That was erstwhile Kate On Sports was born.

Kate On Sports was, and truly inactive is, a blog and video amusement that was borne of an thought I came up with successful the ablution successful August of 2006, and past stepped retired of the ablution to telephone Kate astir the thought — Kate was discovered by Comcast and AOL for their Fanhouse program, and past did a spot for the crippled days for the SF Giants.

Prior to that, Kate came to maine arsenic 1 of 3 bloggers suggested by long-time friend, Cal pupil buddy, and present NFL Network personality, Mike Silver. At the time, I was moving to physique the archetypal phases of the web of blog and video channels I person now, and needed contented producers successful the country of sports.

Of the 3 radical Mike sent my way, Kate had a earthy endowment for being capable to intelligibly authorities a analyzable thought without hesitation oregon stutter. Moreover, that, combined with her emotion for Cal sports, made her a formidable find to speech astir Golden Bears sports, oregon sports issues successful general. So, it was due to the fact that of her quality that I was deed by a bolt-of-lightening thought connected that Thursday successful August of 2006 erstwhile I was successful the shower.

I correctly figured that Kate could beryllium a large YouTube personality, and summation fame talking astir sports topics – successful this case, steroids.

This video, 1 we created to denote her show, was uploaded August 25th, 2006:

We past made a bid of videos, and the thought was to absorption connected edgy topics, arsenic I was trying to physique an assemblage for her. So, we focused connected steroids, and besides women’s bodybuilding, and it was there, that her presumption count, and fan-base, started to build.

While I posted her videos connected Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Metacafe, and different channels, it was her YouTube videos that started to instrumentality off. Kate Scott’s astir fashionable one, which she stupidly took down without informing maine oregon consulting maine (I’ll get to that later) gained 40,000 views successful conscionable 3 days.

Here are different video examples:

Kate was starting to drawback an up-slope of interest, and close astatine a clip earlier YouTube launched the YouTube Partner programme (2008). While I was moving connected getting sponsors for her show, I was besides capable to wage her arsenic a endowment spouse from my blogging revenues and Sports Business Simulations crippled monies made.

At the time, Kate told maine a communicative of idiosyncratic successful Cleveland who told her that her looks would not onshore her connected television. The antheral told her she was excessively “ethnic” – thing I was committed to proving to her was wholly wrong, due to the fact that it was evident that helium played a relation successful the wrecking of her self-esteem.

I was besides committed to Kate due to the fact that I believed that her being a pistillate and Lesbian successful the male-dominated sports broadcasting World should not beryllium a obstruction to her success.

While Kate had a well-known flirtation with men aft she got loaded with drink, astatine the clip she was firmly committed to the pistillate who would aboriginal go her wife, Nicole. So, for a ton of reasons, I wanted to spot her succeed. I wanted to instrumentality my thumb successful the oculus of the constitution via Kate.

After a time, Kate gained the involvement of a large brand, AT&T, and for thing called “Mashup Madness”:

Hey Kate,

With March Madness rapidly approaching I thought you and the readers of “Kate connected Sports” would beryllium funny to larn astir a chill caller online video mashup tract that lets NCAA hoops fans make video for their favourite teams. Here are the details:

AT&T has launched a Mash-Up Madness programme enabling fans to make a customized video mashup utilizing exclusive squad footage, schoolhouse combat songs, squad graphics and idiosyncratic photos. Users go producers by dragging and dropping elements to make a video.

Starting present done March 31, 2007, fans tin sojourn the Mash-Up Madness Web site, attblueroom.com/sports to make their mashup, and participate for a accidental to triumph prizes that see including school-specific merchandise, a laptop computer, and a Samsung BlackJack phone.

Each week, AT&T volition showcase caller videos and admit their “producers” connected the Mash-Up Madness Web site.

Let maine cognize if you deliberation you tin bash thing with this oregon if you person immoderate questions.
Direct link: http://www.attblueroom.com/sports

Laura Knapp
On behalf of AT&T

So, I passed the email to Kate, and she said…

Hey there,

Well, it looks truly cool, but I don’t deliberation I’ll person the clip to bash it.

What are your thoughts?

Hope the comic publication normal was fun!

cheers,
Kate

But that was conscionable the extremity of the iceberg of bully things to travel for her. Kate was trying to interruption into the business, and was tossing her feelers retired successful each directions. Here’s the adjacent connection we exchanged, this 1 connected AOL Fanhouse August 14th 2007, wherever she asked maine for my opinion:

Kate Troescher ktr (withheld by Zennie)

8/14/07

to me
What bash you think?

Also…thanks for forwarding maine the enactment from Dennis. I deliberation a Warriors amusement for our adjacent thang sounds great, particularly since they’ve signed Matt Barnes and the season’s getting started again soon.

Oh…guess what!?! I got the Cal gig! So I’ll beryllium connected FSNBA each week this fall! I’m excited!

Hope to perceive from you soon.

cheers,
Kate

———- Forwarded connection ———-
From: JohnNess < JohnNess0
Date: Aug 14, 2007 2:28 PM
Subject: Kate connected Sports connected FanHouse?
To: ktr (withheld by Zennie)

Kate Troescher:

I’m a shaper for FanHouse, the web’s astir fashionable sports blog, and I wanted to invitation you to articulation a unchangeable of bloggers and vloggers we’re gathering to present a Rocketboom-style AM rundown for our site.

If you’re not acquainted with FanHouse, fto maine explicate however we work: Our tract has dozens of the champion bloggers astir (like MJD, Orson Swindle of Every Day Should Be Saturday, and Brian Cook of MGoBlog), astir of whom support their ain idiosyncratic blogs connected the side. We crank retired a large woody of contented each day, and this regular vlog would beryllium astir presenting the champion of it.

If you were funny successful joining retired team, we’d beryllium blessed to person you connected arsenic “Kate Troescher” oregon arsenic “Kate connected Sports.” You’d beryllium joining Miss Gossip and 5 oregon six different sports pistillate blogger/vloggers which I’m presently moving to recruit. We’re looking for pistillate v/bloggers due to the fact that they’re much telegenic than astir of our antheral contributors. We’re looking for 5 oregon 6 more, due to the fact that knocking retired these videos tin beryllium beauteous clip consuming astatine first, and we don’t privation to pain anyone out.

The imaginativeness we person for this is to let a antithetic pistillate blogger to work disconnected our apical 5 oregon truthful headlines each morning, with a spot of ad-libbing included (in your case, particularly erstwhile California shot was a topic, similar with Walsh today). The full vlog should instrumentality astir 60 seconds oregon so.

We wage $50 per video, and our bloggers volition archer you that erstwhile you articulation the FanHouse team, we’re unfastened to pitches for much contented each implicit the site.

Please fto maine cognize if you’re interested,
John Ness

I encouraged her to spell for it, but get the AOL statement successful writing. She did.

Later, she asked maine if I would “throw down the dough” for a camera for her to marque videos from her Powerbook:

Kate Troescher kt(witheld by Zennie)

8/21/07

to me, Zennie
No…not THAT benignant of proposition, but a proposition nonetheless.

So, I’ve been successful interaction with the guys astatine FanHouse…they privation maine to
be 1 of 5 girls to beryllium the greeting “anchor” of their 60 2nd sports
run-down. The lone occupation is, I’d person to grounds my 60 sec. spot the
night before…since they’d privation it up by 6 americium and are based successful NY.

With that said…and I cognize we’ve been talking astir however overmuch easier
OUR lives would beryllium if I had a camera of my own…I was wondering if
you’d beryllium consenting to put successful a camera attachment for my Powerbook.

I already person iMovie AND Final Cut Pro connected my computer…all I’d need
is a small camera to hook up to it and I would beryllium capable to movie “Kate
on Sports” episodes whenever I had thing to accidental AND get the word
out astir the amusement connected FanHouse.

I person nary thought however overmuch they cost, I conscionable thought since the software
would beryllium utilized to beforehand SBS, you mightiness beryllium consenting to propulsion down the
dough for the camera.

Let maine cognize what you think! I’m beauteous stoked astir the anticipation of
being capable to movie “Kate connected Sports” episodes whenever I want…and
posting them erstwhile the topics are inactive relevant!!! Hehehe…hope
you’re well!

best,
Kate

We worked retired a woody that worked for her, and didn’t impact maine shelling retired a batch of “dough.” As it happens, the AOL radical liked her enactment truthful much, they started promoting her, arsenic this email I got from her explains:

Kate Troescher kt(withheld by Zennie)

9/26/07

to Kate
Gooood morning!

Hope you’re having a large week. Just wanted to support you each posted – whether you wanted to beryllium oregon NOT – connected my latest “industry” gig.

Thanks to my wholly unprofessional “Kate On Sports” – www.kateonsports.com – vlog, immoderate folks astatine AOL Sports decided I’d beryllium a large anchor for their 60 2nd greeting newscast. This greeting I posted my archetypal “cast”.

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/09/26/fanhouse-minute-the-pga-takes-a-stand/

Look for maine connected the beforehand leafage of “FanHouse” each Wednesday greeting from present until they occurrence me! And if you bash marque it to the site, permission comments connected the post. Even if they’re negative…it inactive shows my brag that idiosyncratic is watching!

Have a large remainder of the week! And of course…GO BEARS!

cheers,
Kate

Zenophon Abraham zennie@sportsbusinesssims.com

9/26/07

to Noelle, noelle, Kate
Hi,

Completely unprofessional!? Man….Congrats. See what I started! But
the program’s existent abbreviated there. Don’t hide america implicit here. I’d like
you to conscionable our caller Online Marketing Chief Noelle Maylander — she’s
copied here.

And besides there’s video announcer enactment for our caller client, California
Commercial Group successful the adjacent aboriginal — similar a weeks oregon so.

Zennie

But with that, Kate inactive was the absorption of Kate On Sports, and to the extremity of landing a sponsor for her, I created a promotional page, and past went to Ms.T for feedback. She wrote:

Kate Troescher kt(Witheld by Zennie)

10/9/07

to me
Hey!

It looks beauteous good. I request to get you a new, updated photograph of maine to
use connected the site, and the pic that you take arsenic a inactive connected the
one-sheet is AWFUL!

I person brownish hairsbreadth and I look chubby, truthful let’s prime another. I’ll look
at the shows I liked and we’ll spell from there.

Also, I mightiness re-word a fewer things, truthful erstwhile I’m connected my machine – as
opposed to a enactment 1 – I’ll transcript it into a Word document, edit it,
and nonstop it backmost to you.

As for Thursday…let’s inactive program connected 12:30.

Will determination beryllium $$$ waiting for maine astatine the shoot?

I know, I know…pushy arsenic always.

what tin one do?

After that, the emails I have, but volition not post, person Kate trying to enactment retired immoderate idiosyncratic issues with her life, and needing to propulsion backmost from Kate On Sports. But what bothered maine was that she was besides getting proposal from aged heads, who had, arsenic she enactment it successful 1 email, “25 years successful the tv business.”

The occupation is, they had zero acquisition successful the caller media, integer media.

I knew a occupation was forming erstwhile she didn’t assertion Kate On Sports connected Linkedin. So I contacted her astir it, and she wrote this:

I’d similar to commencement disconnected by saying I’m atrocious that you consciousness insulted by the information that I person not listed SBS arsenic a erstwhile leader connected my Linkedin profile. The information is, the crushed I did not database it has thing to bash with you oregon thing you’ve done. As I person said galore times before, I was and stay grateful for the opportunities you presented maine with and cognize that I would not beryllium moving for AOL if it wasn’t for Kate connected Sports.

You asked for honesty, truthful fto maine explicate to you wherefore I did not database SBS connected Linkedin, yet proceed to database it connected the resume that I walk connected to imaginable employers. The crushed I did not database Kate connected Sports connected my Linkedin illustration is due to the fact that the 2 radical I spot astir successful the tv manufacture told maine not to.

They some person told maine that portion it was large practice, a batch of the facts I contiguous successful my shows are incorrect – which I person looked astatine and present hold with – and I bash not look “as good” arsenic I bash successful person. And since I americium not presently moving for SBS, with lone 10-20 seconds to impressment imaginable employers…if they hap to look astatine an aged occurrence that I don’t look large in…just similar that, my accidental astatine a occupation could beryllium gone.

What Kate failed to recognize was that it wasn’t leader / employee, but co-producers. As I told her, the amusement was astir her. I owned the rights to it, but the effort was shared. There could beryllium nary Kate On Sports, without that Kate, and due to the fact that it was designed astir her abilities.

Sure, I could person went retired and conducted a hunt for the adjacent “Kate” and created that personality, and has a caput to bash that, but I’m not phony and astatine the extremity of the day, that’s not my way.

Also, arsenic acold arsenic “facts”, she ne'er said what “facts” were incorrect, and forgot to enactment that the contented was without a script. What’s absorbing is that I’d stake the aforesaid radical got a batch of “facts” wrong, but told idiosyncratic that it didn’t substance arsenic agelong arsenic they got the contented out. In different words, she was fed immoderate implicit bullshit by idiosyncratic who was not chill with what was past called “New Media”. The existent transgression is she didn’t archer maine astir immoderate of this until I asked astir it.

What I wished is that Kate had not taken the proposal of her aged TV heads. Whatever they were telling her, it caused her to instrumentality down the main YouTube channel, without telling me, without consulting me, and conscionable arsenic I was trying to onshore a large broadcast cause for her.

That transmission contained each the stats I needed to nutrient an statement for her.

This is what I wrote:

Zenophon Abraham zennie@sportsbusinesssims.com

3/10/08

to ktresh
you should instrumentality the mature way and interaction maine and I volition bash it.

Kate, I’ve present considered this experiement — which held truthful overmuch committedness — a failure. I did truthful due to the fact that your fearfulness of occurrence is truthful aggravated you instrumentality actions that artifact your ain advancement. In my case, I paid you $300 for a video — a bully 1 the lawsuit linked — that you past went and took down without contacting maine oregon considering WHERE IT WAS LINKED to, and however it whitethorn interaction this business. I recovered from it, but astatine this constituent I bash resent that I took a accidental connected you.

Meanwhile, I’ve restored the settings to their archetypal position. Again, if you privation thing done, you’re going to person to bash that which you’ve proven you can’t bash — communicate. There’s a acquisition here: you can’t tally distant from a mess. The occupation is to cleanable it up.

Best,

Zenophon Abraham zennie@sportsbusinesssims.com

3/10/08

to Kate
Hi,

The different matters fine. The Kate On Sports — no. The crushed is this. “Kate On Sports” is simply a generic sanction created by SBS. One specified that we tin get — oregon make — different Kate, and that’s what we mean to do. Moreover, the videos are portion of the grounds of the steadfast and its work. I punctual you that I — not you — created the sanction and the look and the conception of the show. It remains the spot of SBS, and you cognize this. If you don’t, you bash now.

Kate, I’m going to beryllium frank. You truly misjudged and misunderstood this full engagement. You were ne'er an worker of SBS, but an autarkic contractor. You were Co-producer of a show. Moreover, I made the mistake of fundamentally bending to immoderate whim you wanted conscionable to accommodate you.

That signifier has ended.

You person to change. You person nary thought however overmuch I had invested successful moving to get you discovered and not for immoderate monetary summation beyond the show. But you truly request to halt and instrumentality a hard look astatine your priorities and the choices you person made to date. I proceed to judge successful your talent, but I powerfully question your tendency to succeed.

Best,

Zennie

KCBS Then KNBR For Kate, YouTube And Beyond For Me

Kate continued connected with her work, past for KNBR Radio. She became a fixture, speechmaking the quality successful the wee hours of the morning, and for immoderate years. Then, she yet got connected the aerial with KNRB vigor and astatine a clip during the day, alternatively than at, say, 3 AM.

Meanwhile YouTube established the YouTube Partner Program, allowing maine to gain advertisement gross from YouTube videos. Since Kate destroyed Kate On Sports connected YouTube, she erased immoderate accidental of the transmission gaining spouse status, which it was good connected its mode toward doing. We had gained astir 500 subscribers astatine the time, which was beauteous bully considering it was aboriginal successful 2008. The presumption numbers were implicit 100,000 total, astatine the time.

If Kate had kept the transmission alive, and fixed involvement successful her from AOL and AT&T, she could person emerged to go 1 of YouTube’s top video pioneer stars. By my estimation, her yearly income potential, erstwhile sponsorships are considered on with Google AdSense revenue, was successful the scope of $500,000 annually, and possibly more. And if you look astatine the occurrence of iJustine and Phil De Franco, and Ray William Johnson, my estimation rapidly becomes precise conservative.

And what would my summation person been? It would person been from the eventual merchantability of Kate On Sports. If Kate and I worked unneurotic to physique it, it would person coiled up connected cablegram television, conscionable arsenic my YouTube show, The Blog Report With Zennie62 did, connected CoLours TV and DISH Network from 2009 to 2011.

But each of that is simply a dream, now. The world present is Kate’s inactive trying to interruption into television, but a prima successful section sports vigor connected KNBR – but her reportedly diva-ish cognition is rubbing immoderate the incorrect way, according to a blogger who follows KNBR, and possibly excessively closely.

I anticipation Kate stops and enjoys her blessings, alternatively than making moves to messiness them up. She needs to recognize that, dissimilar Kate On Sports, she’s not adjacent a co-producer astatine KNBR. She’s truly conscionable an employee.

They tin chopped her disconnected successful a flash.

Part of maine thinks that’s poetic justice, the different portion of maine hopes it ne'er happens.

Stay tuned.

Epilogue: Kate Will Do A Great Job If Philly 76ers Fans Let Her Be Kate. But Kate Needs To Embrace Her True Self

As the 1 who believed she could bash what she’s astir to bash agelong earlier anyone else, each I inquire present is that Philadelphia gives Kate Scott a chance. And by that, I mean fto her beryllium her. They volition past spot what I saw successful 2006 erstwhile I had the thought that she would beryllium a large sports video-blogger.

I situation anyone to accidental I was wrong.

What I privation Kate to bash is region the racial-prejudice and besides sexist thought of however she came to wherever she is, today. She whitethorn convey each of the achromatic radical successful sports broadcasting who had a manus successful wherever she is, but the information is, it each started with this achromatic man. In fact, I americium going to accidental that I volition beryllium down a ample fig of palmy achromatic women are achromatic men and women who ne'er got the acknowledgment they deserved, and successful immoderate cases, whitethorn person received a backstab. In different words, made to look similar idiosyncratic they’re not.

Why that happens is thing I person thought astir for a agelong time. The decision I travel to is that it is simply a byproduct of a racism that is champion described arsenic “They emotion that you entertain them, but they don’t emotion you.” Or, successful this case, “They emotion that you assistance them, but they don’t emotion you.” As 1 who ne'er wanted to spot racism, the roadworthy to that benignant of decision has been a hard one. It’s filled with a ample fig of episodes wherever idiosyncratic achromatic tried to diminish my enactment and contributions, from forming Oakland’s 2005 Super Bowl Bid to this substance with Kate Troescher.

And inactive I rise. And present to a constituent wherever I established ZENNIE62MEDIA, Inc.

Where we are arsenic African Americans is mostly borne of millions of examples of story-telling. You know. The elephantine fig of times that achromatic men are described arsenic aggravated oregon unintelligent oregon possibly cunning, erstwhile genius is the connection that should beryllium used. Just arsenic Kate Scott is simply a signifier sanction that takes 1 distant looking astatine the pistillate that is Kate Troescher, the stories astir achromatic men are designed to instrumentality 1 distant from reasoning positively astir us. The occupation is stories is they are impermanent and ever springiness mode to the information nether God.

Philadelphia, springiness Kate Troescher a chance. Kate, ne'er hide radical who helped connected the mode up. Especially achromatic folks with their ain media companies.