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I was on broadcast crews for sports events. I started out doing camera then worked my way up to graphics. As cool and fun as that job was there's major caveats to it. You need multiple jobs in this field to make any money. You can't just coast at one place and expect to make bank. You have to hustle back and forth between gig after gig. This was just for college. Pros are even worse. I knew people getting gigs with my favorite pro teams and they'd say stuff like " we only got 2 dates this month" and that's with avails given upto 6 months in advance. I was told for one arena that the group there is very clicky and the only way to get into it is to wait for someone to die. I know guys who would spend a weekend in Philly just to book it up to New York for a few days then fly down to Florida for the next weekend. It's a real hustle, with potentially no down time, and crap pay. It's an amazing gig of you're fresh out of college and have the energy for it. Unfortunately life put a couple road blocks in my way and I had to give it up for my own sanity.
A friend was running electrical for studio shoots on the news. He couldn't make a go of it either, as gaffing is grunt work no one respects unless and until the dalai lama is visiting and trips over a power lead.