Awful Announcing
About half of ESPN's games will feature an on-site truck (and likely on-site announcers as well), with Shiffman saying "The production will be at its best when we can travel people."
"The joy of covering a playoff is being close to players and after the pack peels away, going and sitting down next to a player in a dressing stall and asking a question about something you’ve been curious about and all of a sudden you get a story that you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise about a player’s background that you can use in your telecast. And there’s no chance of that this year."
Broadcasters may move on-site during the conference finals and NBA Finals, according to Harlan.
If we get a 2020 MLB season, the local broadcasts of road games may be done remotely.
Vasgersian has previously called remote broadcasts for NBC's Olympics coverage.
"I think we're getting better. This is forcing us to be really efficient in the way we communicate, the way we share content."
ESPN sent five announcing teams to Brazil in 2014; Fox is sending just two to Russia, with the other teams calling matches off monitors in Los Angeles.
A new HBO feature on Jaime Jarrin includes commentary from Vin Scully.
