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If Baseball Returns, The Fan's Wilner & Wagner Won't Be On The Road
The new rules have come out and all teams' announcers will have to stay home, forced to call the games remotely off of a monitor God help them if the signal goes out...
MLB's TV, radio broadcasters would be grounded from road games to start 2020 season
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RadioActive wrote:
The new rules have come out and all teams' announcers will have to stay home, forced to call the games remotely off of a monitor God help them if the signal goes out...
Not if. When.
A power outage is indeed possible, but (I'm guessing) they'll most likely have a back up generator anyway.
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Re: If Baseball Returns, The Fan's Wilner & Wagner Won't Be On The Road
The new rules have come out and all teams' announcers will have to stay home, forced to call the games remotely off of a monitor God help them if the signal goes out...
MLB's TV, radio broadcasters would be grounded from road games to start 2020 season
They work for Rogers. If the signal goes out they can easily access the other team's broadcast.
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Sadly many announcers watch a monitor to call the game even in normal times. Not many actually watch the actual field of play.
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Sadly many announcers watch a monitor to call the game even in normal times. Not many actually watch the actual field of play.
I seem to recall Rogers making their hockey broadcasters call some mid-week Leafs road games from a Toronto studio monitor; in past years. Reports at the time indicated the unpopular (to put it mildly) move was one of many SN budget driven inititives.
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Rogers making their hockey broadcasters call some mid-week Leafs road games from a Toronto studio monitor; in past years. Reports at the time indicated the unpopular (to put it mildly) move was one of many SN budget driven inititives.
Again, thinking like a REGULAR viewer, if the announcers didn't mention they were in the Honeymoon suite at the Niagara Falls Motel By-The-Hour, wearing a hospital gown and Hell's Angels leather assless chaps calling the game from their Milton Bradley Easy Bake Tv Monitor, would they care? A good annoucer, preforming their job properly, is as good, if not better than being in a cold stadium.
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i recall a story from back in the 40s maybe. could be foster hewett or one of his competitors was calling games from a toronto studio by reading ticker tape feeds and phone calls. ring any bells?
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Hal Kelly and Joe Crysdale doing the away Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball games on CKEY. The ticker-tape always heard in the backgrounbd.