Announcers. - from studio or from their own closet ?

[section907]

Do they really need commentators to describe whatever we are all watching ? At least the guys on-site had some atmosphere from fans. Everyone from their closet sounds like the Roy philpot guy. Just babbling on to fill air with no real insight. Not a fan of listening to a tv guy to repeat every play 5-10 seconds later

guess it’s a covid thing. But needs help.

 

[fowl_mood]

Insightful post regarding loss of perspective being offsite. I once had to recreate a game in from stats because of a power failure in the press box many years ago doing HS football.

I can only imagine how bad it sounded. I know how hard it was to do. Sports broadcast is about time and place.

 

[USC2USC]

Do they really need commentators to describe whatever we are all watching ? At least the guys on-site had some atmosphere from fans. Everyone from their closet sounds like the Roy philpot guy. Just babbling on to fill air with no real insight. Not a fan of listening to a tv guy to repeat every play 5-10 seconds later

guess it’s a covid thing. But needs help.

I agree with this. There are sooooo many sporting events televised today demanding more on-air talent than exists, in my opinion. To hear them babble on and on about non-sense is annoying. And the remote commentators during COVID are the worst.

And once the greedy networks see that fans will stomach this, it will be here to stay when they see how much $ they are saving on flights and hotels.

 

[king ward]

Once you get beyond the top-tier broadcasters for sports that have many televised games, the drop-off can be stark. It hurts to listen to some of these people. I think the difference is even more pronounced between strata of color commentators than play-by-play people.

 

[bucketdad]

I dont see a lot of differences in the best in the business and the worse. They all seem to think we have turned in to get their insight while a football game plays in the background. That said, I really have gotten used to watching without them.

 

[DrMickey]

What games are using off site commentators? I wasn’t aware that was a thing. That sounds like a bad idea to me. I’m thinking about how the novelty of a zoom meeting wore off by the second one.

 

[USC Class of 1972]

In the early and mid-1960's a Sumter radio station, I think WDXY, broadcast the New York Yankee games because Bobby RIchardson was on the team. I listened to many of them because I was a Yankee fan and there was nothing else more enjoyable to do during those hot summer days. That was when MLB games were regularly daytime games. Years later I found out that the announcer was sitting in his Sumter station recreating the games off the teletype with crowd noises to boot. He was very good at doing it I must say. I never suspected anything amiss.

 

[hahnenkampf]

What games are using off site commentators? I wasn’t aware that was a thing. That sounds like a bad idea to me. I’m thinking about how the novelty of a zoom meeting wore off by the second one.

I’ve watched at least 20 games with the broadcasters doing it from their homes. It is not the same — they end up getting in side discussions about stuff other than the game. Our game with Stanford the other day was one of them.

 

[DrMickey]

I’ve watched at least 20 games with the broadcasters doing it from their homes. It is not the same — they end up getting in side discussions about stuff other than the game. Our game with Stanford the other day was one of them.

I had no idea. At all. That’s Disappointing. Is it mostly basketball? I assume all of the SEC football games have crews in person?