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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
While much of the information addressed has been available prior, here is a recap:
* MLB Network launches at 6pm ET with the debut episode of “Hot Stove” followed by the original broadcast of Don Larsen’s perfect game in the ‘56 World Series. Larsen and Yogi Berra will be in-studio discussing the game.
* During the season, the studio show “MLB Tonight” will run 6pm to 2am, or whenever the last games on the West Coast are completed.
* Two studios have been created and named after former greats: Studio 3 is named after Babe Ruth, and Studio 42 is named in honor of Jackie Roibinson.
* Studio 42 will simulate a “ballpark” inside the stadium (See details, here)
* A new show called “Prime 9” will count down the top nine in a variety of baseball catagories.
* MLB Network will broadcast 16 WBC games
* The scoreboard in Studio 42 is 25’ in size.
* The show “30 Teams in 30 Days” will feature reports from spring training.
* As of December 1, there are 43 multiple system operators carrying MLB Network (see a partial listing here - must be registered and logged in)
* Studio 3 will be sprinkled with 108 HD displays.
* There will be 173 seats in Studio 42 in three separate seating areas.
* In the first year of MLB Network, there will be approximatly 1,400 hours of live content on MLB Network.
If I had a time machine, I’d go to January 1st right now! Well, first I’d go to next week and find out the winning lottery ticket, but…
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1. Leroy Kincaid Posted: December 09, 2008 at 01:45 PM (#3023654)I have a hard time watching games I know the outcome of. I also don't find "discussing the game" very interesting either.
During the season, the studio show “MLB Tonight” will run 6pm to 2am, or whenever the last games on the West Coast are completed.
An 8-hour show?!?! Or will they be repeating the show over and over?
* As of December 1, there are 43 multiple system operators carrying MLB Network (see a partial listing here - must be registered and logged in)
Why do I have to register just to see a half-assed list? Annoying.
* In the first year of MLB Network, there will be approximatly 1,400 hours of live content on MLB Network.
But none of it actual MLB games, I presume. That doesn't thrill me much.
That Harold Reynolds could be a key figure in the whole thing is nearly enough in itself to make me ignore the channel all together - assuming it's even available to me.
If they do it like ESPNews, it'll be a hybrid. Mostly repeated from tape, but late-breaking news or game results mean that whole segments are live.
Sportscenters that run throughout the morning, repeats from tape or rebroadcast? Whatever the answer, has it always been this way? This drives me nuts because I could swear when I was in high school, early 90s, they were rebroadcast. I remember being able to hear slipups in one but not the other. But it would be stupid to do it that way, and I can't find those things anymore.
In TV in general, if you don't see the word "live" somewhere on the screen, it probably isn't.
That is crazy that they weren't live. I have always watched Sportscenters back to back, because I'm only half paying attention, but I worked with a guy in high school who used to watch them "to see if I can tell the mistakes from one to the other". Honestly, I'm still not sure I believe you.
People irrationally cling to the belief that those were live. I promise that they weren't.
edit: But how would you know what ESPN does? Duh. Stupid of me. Resume coyness.
Server-based. It's an industry first, to have that sort of heavy turnaround on the air. They got the first server back in the Nineties.
There's a whole lot more that goes into it, and I could talk for hours about video (it's my job) but as low-tech and inflexible as tape is, it's less prone to goofy crap happening to it and making you look dumb.
I think a huge problem in the industry is that TV people are now being computer peple. They're not trained for this, and don't have the aptitude for it. It'll all sort out in twenty years, but for now, there are a significant number of people who went into one industry and find themselves in another one completely.
I have to disagree with this, by the way. A properly trained server technician is less prone to stupid errors than a tape-based one. In either scenario, the entire transmission path has to be clean. The problem is that the tape machines are numerous around the plant. Each of them have to function correctly and all of the DAs and other equipment need to work fine. The server only takes up one output port, and it can be set up with failsafes and redundancy because of it.
Same goes for lawyers and electronic discovery. It's awesome to see the 55 year-old partner on whose business you depend for a paycheck cede the management of an entire case to Casey the the network guy because he doesn't know what backup tapes are.
As someone who works for a University in technology, yes to the sucky systems. I see it every day.
"Jeff's Backups: When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be There Over...hold on while I post something in the Lounge"
It won't be the same exact show. The first hour will presumably be news of the day/previews of the games that night. The network will also have the ability to go to games for no-hitters, milestones, etc. I don't know how much more they can go into games, other than showing highlights as the gamees are in progress. Trenni is a reporter/host, so she could be at one important each week with interviews, updates, etc. Matt V. can be a funny guy when he is unleashed. I thought that might be one of the reasons that he was hired, as he can be entertaining hosting a long show with his biting sense of humor. I just have a hard time imagining MLB letting Matt V go unleashed.
There will be 26 games, one a week, either Thursday or Saturday nights.
I can't understand why in the world they would switch back to live SportsCenters in the morning. The rebroadcasts were already paid for, so you've got free programming that lots and lots of people want to watch. Nothing happens in the sports world between 2 a.m. and noon the next day, and if it does, you can always break in.
Airing it live is going to increase the audience by what, 1 or 2 percent? And the costs are almost infintely higher. I don't get it.
The SportsCenter reairs in the morning drew consistently not-terrible ratings. They outrated the First Take dreck on ESPN2 consistently. And they were free to the company.
I would love to watch things like random Indians-Athletics games from 1963 on MLB Network. Especially now that ESPN Classic has been reduced to showing "classic" kick-boxing; who exactly is supposed to be able to tell whether it's new kick-boxing or historic kick-boxing?
Classic broadcasting is very cool as long as (a) you don't just stick to the big games everyone knows; and (b) THE DESCRIPTION ON THE CABLE MENU DOESN'T REVEAL WHO FREAKIN' WON!!!
The latter point, you would think, would not be necessary. If you think that, however, you don't have the Big Ten Network (save the jokes, I know no one does). The Big Ten Network will show, say, Ohio State vs. Purdue from 1978, but before you can even click in, you read "the Buckeyes tied the Boilermakers 35-35 in this game from October, 1978."
Gee, thanks jackasses.
Good to know, thanks.
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