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Message: [QUOTE="BigBird, post: 2560131, member: 4247"] I won’t defend a bad performance (including some of mine), and Thursday night was just truly dreadful. Perhaps we (BY) disliked it so much because we’ve seen all the broadcasters involved do better work on other occasions or in other settings. But... Lawson, Lobo, and Amin have lots of chatty company. Have you seen a NBA game on TV lately? College men’s game? The modern approach to sports broadcasting on TV is to let the video carry the information, with the verbal content consisting of reactions, sounding much like people watching a game in a sports bar with the sound off. I came up through local radio, as did generations before me. When I got to TV, I knew that a radio PBP style wasn’t desirable for that medium. Adaptation was required. But the newer generations have come to TV from print journalism, side line reporting, playing, coaching, and even Internet podcasting. They have never had to orally describe a game in narrative form to another person in detail. Neither have they received much training specific to their new task. So they lapse into silly digressions and reactionary “bar room” banter. How one comes to a medium sets the table for future performances. Another example? If you’ve been to the movies in the last decade, you’ve often experienced problems of not hearing some or all of the dialog. And no, it isn’t your hearing aid batteries. It’s a problem of contemporary film and video makers NEVER having had a course or two in basic audio. The buzz today is the visual, including animation, special effects, editing and action. Audio? Get all the explosion sounds and crank up the music score. And once again, the audience (the purpose of the exercise) gets left out. As I’ve said here several times, good broadcast play-by-play isn’t easy. But good grief! It isn’t brain surgery either. [/QUOTE]

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