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by PonySnob » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:16 pm
Any idea as to why the broadcasters were were not sitting court side tonight? In other games that W has attended, they still sat in their usual seats.
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by DanFreibergerForHeisman » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:25 pm
Somebody (I believe mrydel) mentioned ESPN has been doing more games lately with announcers in Bristol.
I don't think it had anything to do with W being in the house.
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by NY Pony » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:32 pm
DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Somebody (I believe mrydel) mentioned ESPN has been doing more games lately with announcers in Bristol.
I don't think it had anything to do with W being in the house. http://www.espnfrontrow.com/2014/11/esp ... oductions/They've been trying it out. All of the games have been on ESPN 3, U or News. Nothing on ESPN 2 or the mothership.
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by DanFreibergerForHeisman » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:36 pm
NY Pony wrote:DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Somebody (I believe mrydel) mentioned ESPN has been doing more games lately with announcers in Bristol.
I don't think it had anything to do with W being in the house. http://www.espnfrontrow.com/2014/11/esp ... oductions/They've been trying it out. All of the games have been on ESPN 3, U or News. Nothing on ESPN 2 or the mothership.
Interesting. Thanks for the link. I know a lot of international soccer is done this way. It's kind of surprising to see it coming to US-based events, but I guess money is money.
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by PonyPride » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:28 am
Confirmed: the game was called by announcers in Bristol. Apparently they have done about 50 games (estimate) from Bristol this year, the theory being that they could have one crew call two or maybe even three games in a single day. All about saving money, it seems.
Midcourt seats, where announcers normally sit, were occupied by Secret Service.
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by NY Pony » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:27 am
PonyPride wrote:Confirmed: the game was called by announcers in Bristol. Apparently they have done about 50 games (estimate) from Bristol this year, the theory being that they could have one crew call two or maybe even three games in a single day. All about saving money, it seems.
Midcourt seats, where announcers normally sit, were occupied by Secret Service.
I bet those guys are getting paid nicely for doing multiple games (assuming they're not on staff and are independent contractors like a lot of ESPN broadcast folks).
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by RebStang » Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:16 am
PonyPride wrote:Confirmed: the game was called by announcers in Bristol. Apparently they have done about 50 games (estimate) from Bristol this year, the theory being that they could have one crew call two or maybe even three games in a single day. All about saving money, it seems.
Midcourt seats, where announcers normally sit, were occupied by Secret Service.
The problem that I've seen is that the "remote announcers" miss things because they're not actually there. Part of the job of a TV announcer is to give the audience a feel for what's going on in the arena... kind of hard to do that if you're not actually in the arena.
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by bubba pony » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:48 am
interesting, the announcers were not very animated. unlike the two guys who do KAAM on the radio. those guys really get into the games.
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by mrydel » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:13 am
The problem is going to be if they have a power outage in Bristol. That very well could have happened with the blizzard last week.
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by whitwiki » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:18 am
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by DanFreibergerForHeisman » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:21 am
RebStang wrote:The problem that I've seen is that the "remote announcers" miss things because they're not actually there. Part of the job of a TV announcer is to give the audience a feel for what's going on in the arena... kind of hard to do that if you're not actually in the arena.
I agree 100% with this statement.
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by lwjr » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:04 pm
RebStang wrote:PonyPride wrote:Confirmed: the game was called by announcers in Bristol. Apparently they have done about 50 games (estimate) from Bristol this year, the theory being that they could have one crew call two or maybe even three games in a single day. All about saving money, it seems.
Midcourt seats, where announcers normally sit, were occupied by Secret Service.
The problem that I've seen is that the "remote announcers" miss things because they're not actually there. Part of the job of a TV announcer is to give the audience a feel for what's going on in the arena... kind of hard to do that if you're not actually in the arena.
I'm afraid this is the wave of the future for broadcast games that do not have a national appeal. Cheaper to produce means higher revenue
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by CalallenStang » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:25 pm
lwjr wrote:RebStang wrote:PonyPride wrote:Confirmed: the game was called by announcers in Bristol. Apparently they have done about 50 games (estimate) from Bristol this year, the theory being that they could have one crew call two or maybe even three games in a single day. All about saving money, it seems.
Midcourt seats, where announcers normally sit, were occupied by Secret Service.
The problem that I've seen is that the "remote announcers" miss things because they're not actually there. Part of the job of a TV announcer is to give the audience a feel for what's going on in the arena... kind of hard to do that if you're not actually in the arena.
I'm afraid this is the wave of the future for broadcast games that do not have a national appeal. Cheaper to produce means higher revenue
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by DanFreibergerForHeisman » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:30 pm
CalallenStang wrote:Failing to see how it's higher revenue
Flight, hotel, per diem...
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