Hearing ESPN is remoting the broadcasters from Carolina

[KWilt43atbuzz]

The announcers are going to be in an ESPN studio instead of courtside to save dough.
Any chance Kaylee Hartung does interviews in a Teddy from her bedroom?

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

I'd do a pay-per-view for that!

 

[Smashcat]

Maybe Vitale will start doing remotes from an iron lung in Florida.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

I think its pretty pathetic they cannot send these people to Lexington from Charlotte, NC....but it sounds fine.

 

[specialkd24]

ESPN is doing this with every Conference. If the announcers are good and do their homework, you can't tell. It has already been done for years with soccer and the Olympics.

ESPN is feeling some of the "cord-cutting" has has to find ways to save money. On these games they save a lot of crew (producer, director, talent, graphics, sound, etc. a few others) and don't have to pay flights/mileage, hotel, food, etc. It seems like just a little but if they did that for 2 total broadcasts a week, it would save a lot of coin at the end of the year.

 

[wildcatsboston1984]

I can barely hear whoever the play by play guy is whenever the crowd is making any noise at all.

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

Kind of like when Ronald Reagan as a young radio announcer on WHO radio in Des Moines did Chicago Cubs games in the studio in Des Moines reading the ticker tape of the game.

 

[JJBlue06]

Guess the announcers have been running up the T&E on the books

 

[strikethreeout]

The announcers can't get a real feel for the game from the studio . Maybe their cost cutting is why I'm not getting a picture .

 

[Opinpi]

The announcers are going to be in an ESPN studio instead of courtside to save dough.
Any chance Kaylee Hartung does interviews in a Teddy from her bedroom?

I would smash my big toe with a hammer to see that!