I need to correct/clarify myself on how the first weekends work for the two tournaments:
The men's tournament has eight pre-selected neutral sites handling four games on Thursday/Friday and two games on Saturday/Sunday. The women's tournament has the sixteen top seeds hosting two games on Friday/Saturday and one game on Sunday/Monday. So ESPN has to handle double the number of venues without knowing where some of the games will be played until Selection Sunday. Both tournaments handle the regionals and national semis and finals the same way: pre-selected neutral sites hosting two games on day 1 and one game on day 2. Also, it's worth noting that the games aren't being called from Bristol (at least from my read): two announcing teams are effectively doing double duty. On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:18 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > What strikes me - from afar - as strange here is that ESPN is still > producing the pictures. > > With international football (soccer) fixtures, the per game production > costs are lower. Another network provides a world feed and local networks > supplement that to a greater or lesser degree. Sending announcers to a dull > midweek fixture that you're not producing is an expensive luxury from the > network's perspective. > > But on home turf? The cost saving is surely a handful of flights and some > hotel accommodation. That feels like penny pinching if the cost for rights > of that game is, say, into seven figures. > > In Europe we get lots of football "off tube" as it's known in the business > here, but usually for overseas fixtures. It would be unthinkable to do it > for a domestic fixture. Granted we're a smaller country and any game is > within a 4-5 hour drive time for commentators. > > I do find it odd that it's being directed from Bristol. That means > satellite uplinks for every camera feed rather than s single game feed. > That feels expensive. > > One way or another, if rapant inflation in rights fees are adversely > impacting on production values, that's a bad thing. > > Adam > On 21 Mar 2016 17:05, "Joe Hass" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Two layers of complexity on this: >> * CBS/Turner holds the mens rights while ESPN holds the womens rights. I >> agree it would be a *very* interesting scenario if Disney held both. >> * What Auriemma doesn't take into account (which is obviously not his >> problem) is the precarious financial state of ESPN right now. What hasn't >> been made clear is to what level the NCAA was involved in this decision >> (I've seen no comment from the NCAA on this). If ESPN is sending broadcast >> teams to all the NIT (aka the mens loser bracket) games (which is one game >> at a time vs the easier four games on one day and two games on the second), >> then I think Auriemma is not only correct, but the NCAA (which also owns >> the NIT) should be all over them like white on rice. >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:20 AM Bob Jersey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Moi, in part, March 18th: >>> >>>> >>>> Happened onto AwfulAnnouncing today, and had some discoveries... >>>> >>>> Under Bristology, a handful of women's NCAA division-1 basketball >>>> tourney games will be rendered much as NBCU has rendered selected Olympic >>>> events and overseas soccer games... with the commentators strictly in >>>> the studio >>>> <http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/espn-broadcasting-games-remotely-sends-a-bad-message-for-ncaa-womens-tournament-coverage.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=espn-broadcasting-games-remotely-sends-a-bad-message-for-ncaa-womens-tournament-coverage> >>>> (link)... >>>> >>>> >>>> The coach of a perennial championship contendah on the female side >>> imagines >>> <http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/geno-auriemma-on-remote-broadcasts-i-dont-imagine-its-happening-on-the-mens-side.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=geno-auriemma-on-remote-broadcasts-i-dont-imagine-its-happening-on-the-mens-side> >>> this tactic isn't pursued on the men's side at all (AwfulAnnouncing >>> link)... let's remember that TWL also holds the NIT... >>> >>> >>> B >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> TV or Not TV .... 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