I'm wondering if anyone has heard anything about the broadcast? Perhaps Steven Goff, Diceson, or some of our other journalists can ask this question. The Metros announced that ALL of their games are to be broadcast on TV this year. All I'm asking is for every road game to be on TV.
I don't hav a sched in front of me but don't expect every away game on tv (can't with the Os schedule to compete with). But I understand they are working on some alternatives to fill the void. K
It would be a beautiful thing if DCU had tv coverage like this... http://www.metrostars.com/schedule/television.htm Pre-game show, bi-monthly magazine/feature show and every game televised. Let's keep dreaming!
I'm sure we're all in agreement that DC fans deserve both. While we're at it, how about English-language radio coverage too?
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Sundevil9 I'll trake a quality team with crappy TV coverage, over a crap team with good TV coverage any day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well... good TV coverage is the ultimate goal of every sports team. Better coverage translates to better TV ratings...more money for the teams...better palyers can be bought....turns a crappy team to a quality team.
With the shootout package, I think there were only 3 games not on TV anywhere last year. Hopefully that can be improved upon, even if I have to listen to the other teams' commentators on NewsChannel 8, I'll take it. I wonder if we will see more combined coverage of games between two teams like we saw a couple of times last year. Would seem to reduce production costs for MLS... I would expect this to happen at Dragon Stadium where production capabilities are limited.
The fact that it's a high school stadium, I'm guessing? Or do high school stadiums down there typically have good A/V capabilities down there? From what I've heard, the other stadium facilities are quite different from the rinky-dink (relatively speaking) stuff we have 'round these parts. Maybe the A/V stuff is more substantial too. Perhaps someone who reads these boards lives (or has lived) down there and could let us know.
Dustin, I read on your boards somewhere that Dragon stadium is not wired up for satellite transmissions or something akin to that.. Forgive me for not remembering the thread title but it went on to say that extra production trucks would have to be brought in at both teams expense to get the proper broadcast done... Someone explained it quite nicely how each stadium is wired for tv broadcasts but Dragon Stadium for some reason is not..
About the radio broadcasts. I actually just volunteered to do them, yes in English. It was actually about a week ago, but they told me to send in my resume and they would get back to me. I'll be sure to let you know what happens as soon as I find anything out.
I believe it was in an MLS Confidential a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I deleted the email, so I can't quote it directly, but it stated that production costs at Dragon Stadium would be higher (around $5k a game IIRC) since it wasn't pre-wired and the number of cameras would be scaled back so as to not run as much wire.
OK, I can buy that. I guess I was asking my previous question as a way of pointing out that it's not your average high school football stadium. It was built in 1999, and in many ways, it's nicer than the Cotton Bowl. However, at the same time, I can imagine that when it was built, nobody envisioned that a pro team was going to be playing there four years later. And honestly, I don't know if it's set up as well for TV broadcasts as the Cotton Bowl was. At the Cotton Bowl, you had an upper deck on the west side with three camera perches at the bottom of the upper deck: one in the middle and one at each end of the field. At Dragon Stadium, I can imagine that you can have a camera on the roof of the press box, but the cameras at either end of the field are going to be a bit more difficult.