On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I get the impression that ESPN has a team in each venue. As > far as I can remember, I've always heard two voices and never the same > one twice in a day on TV. On the radio and for the streaming audio for > ESPN's iPhone app, JP Dellacamera (American) and Tommy Smyth (Irish) > are doing every match; I usually think of them as ESPN's "A" team for > soccer, so I'm surprised that they aren't doing TV commentary.
ESPN have live coverage of every game so they might keep their announcing teams in the same city. The camera work and directing are done by South Africans so the camera tends to stay on the action and they only rarely show fans or benches, unlike US TV sports. Martin Tyler and Efan Eloku are a team and they called today's Brazil-Ivory Coast game on ABC. > > What I've noticed that seems odd is that the third person in the > studio alongside Chris Fowler and Alexi Lalas during the segments > before and after the game and at half time seems to change from day to > day. The main third persons are Steve McManaman, Ruud Gullitt, and Jurgen Klinsmen. They don't seem to have great broadcasting chops, but they were top players in international games for England, Netherlands, and Germany, respectively. They certainly know the game; I think they have a bit of difficulty explaining it to casual viewers. I have been watching, on average, a game a day and I really enjoy the coverage. I'm going to write a longer piece about all the thing they're doing right on TV, especially compared to US sports coverage. As for the noise of the vuvuzelas, I think the sound engineers have changed the audio mix to dampen them somewhat. They were much louder and more annoying in the first games that were broadcast. They seem to be much less intrusive now. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
