Yesterday was our final telecast of the season.
This telecast was an important one in that the team we cover could clinch the Division title with a win or a loss by the second place club. The second place team’s game started an hour earlier than our game. Because of this, our first segment of the game Open was live. Out of the Open animation we showed some tight faces of the home team during batting practice as they prepared for the game. Then, before we went on camera, we displayed the score of the second place team’s game.
A second theme established in the Open was the fact that a rookie pitcher was hurling for the home club in this ever important game.
During our telecast, we constantly updated the other game with a lower 1/3 graphic. (Lower 1/3 means that the graphic takes up the lower 1/3 of the screen)
The rookie starting pitcher did not make it out of the first inning and visitors led 4 – 0. This made the other game all the more important.
We were in the sixth inning of our telecast when the second place team lost their game, thus, the team we cover was the Division champion.
We still had three innings to televise, but the focus in the truck turned to the coverage of the post-game celebration in the clubhouse.
Permission was already granted for our feed to be the exclusive television feed for the first 15 minutes of the celebration. We teased the celebration with a shot of the clubhouse in the top of the ninth inning as the clubhouse personnel prepared the room.
Our TV production crew has had experience with post-game celebrations as the team we cover has been in the post-season 7 times in the past 11 years and 6 of the past 7 seasons.
Covering a locker room celebration never gets old.
Covering the celebration of a championship team is as good as live TV gets.
It is interesting to note that before each interview, our announcer said to the guest, “We are live on (station call letters and channel number). One of the players answered, “Thanks for letting me know this is live. I am pretty excited and I’ll be careful with what I say.”
After 30 minutes of celebration, our production team signed off on our 153rd and final telecast of the season.
Through 153 Open segments, 153 telecasts with no two the same, pre-tapes, rain delays and extra innings, airplanes, hotels, cabs, subways, dual feeds, different crews with different skill levels….through all of this….our team delivered with excellent baseball coverage.
During the spraying of the Champagne and the dousing of the beer in the clubhouse, I looked at the Producer, my partner on the telecasts and a good friend, and I said, “Just think, Spring Training is just around the corner.”
If looks could kill….
This telecast was an important one in that the team we cover could clinch the Division title with a win or a loss by the second place club. The second place team’s game started an hour earlier than our game. Because of this, our first segment of the game Open was live. Out of the Open animation we showed some tight faces of the home team during batting practice as they prepared for the game. Then, before we went on camera, we displayed the score of the second place team’s game.
A second theme established in the Open was the fact that a rookie pitcher was hurling for the home club in this ever important game.
During our telecast, we constantly updated the other game with a lower 1/3 graphic. (Lower 1/3 means that the graphic takes up the lower 1/3 of the screen)
The rookie starting pitcher did not make it out of the first inning and visitors led 4 – 0. This made the other game all the more important.
We were in the sixth inning of our telecast when the second place team lost their game, thus, the team we cover was the Division champion.
We still had three innings to televise, but the focus in the truck turned to the coverage of the post-game celebration in the clubhouse.
Permission was already granted for our feed to be the exclusive television feed for the first 15 minutes of the celebration. We teased the celebration with a shot of the clubhouse in the top of the ninth inning as the clubhouse personnel prepared the room.
Our TV production crew has had experience with post-game celebrations as the team we cover has been in the post-season 7 times in the past 11 years and 6 of the past 7 seasons.
Covering a locker room celebration never gets old.
Covering the celebration of a championship team is as good as live TV gets.
It is interesting to note that before each interview, our announcer said to the guest, “We are live on (station call letters and channel number). One of the players answered, “Thanks for letting me know this is live. I am pretty excited and I’ll be careful with what I say.”
After 30 minutes of celebration, our production team signed off on our 153rd and final telecast of the season.
Through 153 Open segments, 153 telecasts with no two the same, pre-tapes, rain delays and extra innings, airplanes, hotels, cabs, subways, dual feeds, different crews with different skill levels….through all of this….our team delivered with excellent baseball coverage.
During the spraying of the Champagne and the dousing of the beer in the clubhouse, I looked at the Producer, my partner on the telecasts and a good friend, and I said, “Just think, Spring Training is just around the corner.”
If looks could kill….
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