Could the radio production be any more inept?
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:09 pm
This is not in reference to the announcers, who I really enjoy.
In fact I enjoy the announcers so much, I would love to actually hear everything they are saying and not have commercials run that don't end until halfway through the play. Radio stations across America seem to have figured out how long the timeouts will last for many decades, how hard can it be?
Here was how the postgame show went today:
We started with the same commercial repeated 3-plus times in a row, back-to-back-to-back. This happens every postgame. Is the sponsor really paying for three consecutive airings? If not, and they have no other commercials to run, why does the station even need to take a commercial break? Again: this didn't just happen this week. it happens every week.
Then we get to the highlights, but the first half of them are covered up by the aforementioned commercials. Can the studio guy not simply wait until the commercials are over before he begins? Surely he has a radio?
As for said guy, whose job it is to play audio clips of highlights: It is one highlight per drive, always the scoring play. If there was a 50-yard tackle-breaking run to get to the 1-yard-line and a nondescript one-yard-run for the touchdown, he will play the latter. On this particular occasion, while introducing the segments, he twice called Tulane "Tulsa" by mistake, laughed it off, and then proceeded to just say Tulsa every subsequent time.
Then we get the same commercials that were just played mere minutes before. I realize commercials pay the bills but again, I can't imagine a sponsor would pay double/triple/quadruple for airings that are so close together. If they are, I withdraw the objection. But I suspect someone is trying to kill time and failing miserably.
Then a self-help-type segment, with no connection to football, is played to kill some time. Problem is, by the time it ends it has once again covered up a large part of the announcers' following segment.
Is there no boss supervising any of this? And what boss could possibly consider any of this to be acceptable, especially since it happens again and again?
In fact I enjoy the announcers so much, I would love to actually hear everything they are saying and not have commercials run that don't end until halfway through the play. Radio stations across America seem to have figured out how long the timeouts will last for many decades, how hard can it be?
Here was how the postgame show went today:
We started with the same commercial repeated 3-plus times in a row, back-to-back-to-back. This happens every postgame. Is the sponsor really paying for three consecutive airings? If not, and they have no other commercials to run, why does the station even need to take a commercial break? Again: this didn't just happen this week. it happens every week.
Then we get to the highlights, but the first half of them are covered up by the aforementioned commercials. Can the studio guy not simply wait until the commercials are over before he begins? Surely he has a radio?
As for said guy, whose job it is to play audio clips of highlights: It is one highlight per drive, always the scoring play. If there was a 50-yard tackle-breaking run to get to the 1-yard-line and a nondescript one-yard-run for the touchdown, he will play the latter. On this particular occasion, while introducing the segments, he twice called Tulane "Tulsa" by mistake, laughed it off, and then proceeded to just say Tulsa every subsequent time.
Then we get the same commercials that were just played mere minutes before. I realize commercials pay the bills but again, I can't imagine a sponsor would pay double/triple/quadruple for airings that are so close together. If they are, I withdraw the objection. But I suspect someone is trying to kill time and failing miserably.
Then a self-help-type segment, with no connection to football, is played to kill some time. Problem is, by the time it ends it has once again covered up a large part of the announcers' following segment.
Is there no boss supervising any of this? And what boss could possibly consider any of this to be acceptable, especially since it happens again and again?