An article from TribLive highlights a new journey for Corey Graves as he has begun teaching Live Sports Production at Point Park University.
The native of Monroeville took on the role after previously speaking for the school’s broadcasting department.
The WWE broadcaster and former in-ring competitor now teaches a weekly three-hour course, allowing Graves to share his knowledge from a decorated career that includes calling the action for NXT and the main roster across multiple networks and streaming platforms.
On WWE and their parent company TKO being in support of the endeavor, Graves said:
TKO has seemingly been a lot more open to collaboration and allowing talent to step outside WWE, more so than the old WWE regime. Anybody who works for WWE has had an opportunity of some sort that they’ve had to turn down because they couldn’t get permission, or it was a conflict of interest.
This really isn’t a wrestling class; it was a broadcasting class. I took it to my manager, and they’ve been supportive to help me with making this happen.
The article notes that Graves had a short stint in radio broadcasting in between his run on the independent wrestling circuit and his debut in NXT.
Part of the knowledge he looks to impart upon his students is the idea of telling a story and pulling emotion from viewrs that hook them into what the broadcaster is describing:
Vin Scully wasn’t a baseball commentator. He was a storyteller. You didn’t have to open your eyes. You could envision the park and see the sunset and where the players were at. That’s an art and that’s the art of broadcasting.
I think having a wealth of experience doing that, it’s quite literally what I do. Make you like somebody; make you hate somebody. It’s not exclusive to wrestling, but broadcasting can be anything, online, radio, TV. The business has changed so much.