For a visiting TV baseball production team, there is no better place to broadcast on the road than San Francisco.
The visitor’s crew is the best among the road crews in the National League. There is not one weak aspect to any of the crew positions on the telecast.
The camera operators are complete and total professionals. They work their tails off, they do not take themselves too seriously, they have the perfect attitude, and they are an absolute pleasure to work with.
The audio mix is terrific. The mix of the crowd, the bat crack, and the announcers is always impeccable. And, like the camera operators, the audio technician never complains and is always pleasurable.
The Technical Director (TD) is the best TD in the country in regards to a visiting crew. This guy never makes a mistake. He is relaxed and his confidence rubs off on everyone. I am a better Director whenever I have the good fortune to sit next to this true professional.
It is a privilege to televise baseball with this crew.
The home TV baseball Director for the San Francisco Giants is one of the best baseball Directors in the country and a good friend. He is always trying to get better and I look forward to our conversations about “televising baseball”. We talk about camera positions in other National League ballparks, crews around the league, and our philosophies about baseball “game” coverage. His use of an RF camera from ten years ago is still one of the best “improvements” to the overall “look” of a baseball game ever implemented.
I believe that the quality of the visiting baseball crew in San Francisco is a direct result of the quality of a baseball telecast that this Director provides. This guy has led the way in San Francisco and the quality of the coverage in that town is a testament to this person’s hard work and his love of a great telecast.
The San Francisco Giants baseball TV Director is one of those people in our industry who, just by showing up, makes everyone better.