ESPN Experimenting with In-Studio Announcers

[Joneslab]

At my job last week, I did a resolution for a man who had recently died who had been an engineer with a Lexington radio station since the 1940s.

This man's claim to fame was that he created the technology that piped in the crowd noises for Claude Sullivan to do in-studio broadcasting of UK basketball games. This would have been in the late '40s, early '50s. Sullivan would call the games in Lexington getting his information from a teletype, and the man I'm talking about pumped in squeaking shoes and applause and band sounds to make it seem real.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/yes-espn-experimenting-studio-announcers-college-basketball-games.html

 

[runt#69]

Another ESPN experiment gone terribly wrong. Right up there with that camera angle where they had it directly above the court for a top-down live angle for the game....

Won't make it out of the "testing" phase. You think they would have learned from the other times it didn't work ANYWHERE ELSE. Thank God I have sense enough not to even try to listen to ESPN and just stick with the radio sync for the UK games. When watching other games, mute is my friend.

 

[Smashcat]

As long as it for games involving schools like BYU and Pepperdine, it's fine with me.

 

[martinsm30]

Maximizing profits at the expense of the product. Hotel rooms, plane tickets and other travel expenses cost them a bit I would think. Poor Disney going broke.

 

[sonnyg333]

The new pitch by UNC and Duke:

At UNC we realize our student athlete's are after a professional carrier and we do everything to help them achieve that goal including eliminating classes that get in the way. Our student athletes are better prepared to handle the competition involved with sports broadcasting and will have the grades to qualify for them.



Here at Duke we strive every day to provide our student athlete's all the tools necessary to handle the late night spots on ESPN.
This post was edited on 1/9 2:26 PM by sonnyg333

 

[ModernThirst_Bill]

That's not new for ESPN. They actually did that almost from the start. They were founded in 1979, and for the 1980 Olympics, they did the entire games remotely. The US team had boycotted the Olympics that year, so there wasn't a great deal of interest from the major networks in covering them live. ESPN stepped in. They didn't have the money or wherewithal to send a crew to Moscow for the actual games, so they did all of the announcing from their studios.

 

[DS849]

Might as well listen to UK radio announcers. Better coverage.
Hated the overhead camera view. Almost made me sick. How about letting the refs work this way?

 

[bigbluefattycat]

I'm still pissed the 3D station fell through.

 

[W2R]

Since the big Man at Espn is a UNC grad it sounds bout right...

At unc you don't have to,show up,for class...

At Espn you don't have to,show up for games

 

[Samwise Ganjee]

Originally posted by runt#69:

Won't make it out of the "testing" phase.

Every other Sunday morning, during early spring to mid-autumn, NBC Sports Network airs a Formula 1 race from Europe or Asia (and more recently the U.S. or the Middle East)

The cameras are on site at the race and are both robotic and human hand-held or controlled, and they provide the visual feed for F1 broadcast all over the world

At off-site locations in the U.S. and London and Paris and many other foreign broadcast centers a pair (or more) of announcers sit and provide the play-by and the commentary

Not only has it made it out of the "testing" phase but it's become rather a common practice these days for events that attract international viewership

 

[77PrincetonTiger]

The lower Olympic Competitions have been done this way for quite awhile

 

[runt#69]

Originally posted by Samwise Ganjee:

Originally posted by runt#69:

Won't make it out of the "testing" phase.

Every other Sunday morning, during early spring to mid-autumn, NBC Sports Network airs a Formula 1 race from Europe or Asia (and more recently the U.S. or the Middle East)

The cameras are on site at the race and are both robotic and human hand-held or controlled, and they provide the visual feed for F1 broadcast all over the world

At off-site locations in the U.S. and London and Paris and many other foreign broadcast centers a pair (or more) of announcers sit and provide the play-by and the commentary

Not only has it made it out of the "testing" phase but it's become rather a common practice these days for events that attract international viewership

I should watch more sports....

 

[wldctky]

they tried it last night during the BYU and Pepperdine game...I hated it

 

[KyFaninNC]

The Dyke cam was a big hit. LOL

 

[UKWildcats#8]

To be fair, they probably figured the 10 people watching BYU/Pepperdine would not notice.

 

[JerseyCat84]

The BYU/Pepperdine game sounded terrible. I thought they were just having audio difficulties and we're airing the radio broadcast or something.

 

[cats#1again]

How is this any different from March madness, and the live cut ins? When The cbs crew cuts In and gives a live update of another game I for one think it sounds decent. I'm not sure the BYU game sounded like this or not but I believe it could be a hit.
Could also lead to less Vitale. Again, a hit.