On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:

> But Coyle's production method is infinitely better than anything Fox has
> ever done on a baseball broadcast. Fox treats the game itself as secondary
> to whatever they want to do in the broadcast (in-game coaching interviews
> are Exhibit A). Coyle let the game speak for itself.
>
> I mean, look at how Fox treated their four F1 broadcasts: not live, edited
> down to pick up the start of the race, cut away for the anthems. Compare
> that to how NBC treated F1 at Monaco: live, with a pregame, allowed to
> breathe, not rushed off the air once the cars finished.
>
> I'm not saying Fox would have no affect on how broadcasts change. But in a
> world where NBC is continuously producing sports league events (from
> 2002-2005, they only had the NHL which was locked out), I think they
> somehow provide a different product than Fox and ESPN/ABC.
>

I think the answer to this lies in how NBC did Football when it took over
SNF. A lot of Foxification (and ESPNization) had happened in network
football coverage since they last had it, and they did have to put out a
zippier product. But they have also found a way to do it while injecting
something like intelligence and competence and, for the most part, a real
focus on the game. I think they definitely would have found a way to do
that for baseball, and an NBC Saturday Game of the Week would no doubt be
the best network baseball show on broadcast or cable.

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