Play-by-Play: Trying to make it as a sports commentator

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/12/play-by-play/

by tintinnabula • 10 years ago

28 17 10 years ago

soared5• 10 years ago

Free start-up idea: Twitch.tv for sports commentating. Everyone hates the announcers for proffesional sports, why not have a platform for user-commentators? Mute my TV and have Joe Shcmoe commentate an NFL game by streaming the audio through my phone's speakers.

mox1• 10 years ago

Most major sports teams claim copyright over "accounts" and "Descriptions of the game". Now, this may not be copyright-able, but I'd give it a 90%+ chance they would sue your brand new startup if you tried something like that...

AlwaysRock• 10 years ago

Wasnt that a big problem for Twitch early on? Getting sued by networks because people were streaming on their platform.

soared5• 10 years ago

Yeah that would definitely be a problem for the bigger leagues like the NFL. But I think smaller leagues (MMA, MLS, non-mainstream sports) could embrace the extra viewers.

rickdale• 10 years ago

Andy Roddick started commentating tennis over periscope and its absolutely amazing. He pulled in sponsors for the US Open and provided insight on players thats extremely tough to find elsewhere.

soared5• 10 years ago

That is all I want but for the NFL.

roflchoppa• 10 years ago

i hope that in the future audio channels can be split into two streams, one with commentary, and one just sounds of the game (or car racing).

chrishas35• 10 years ago

I no longer have a proper surround system, but when I was able to mute the center speaker to create the effect. Not sure if broadcasters have changed their mix to prevent this from being possible.

atombath2• 10 years ago

One day I had turned on the television and found a MLB game as an interim choice while I found something else to watch. I didn't know, but my center channel's wiring had gone loose from moving speakers around. There were no announcers and it was so... wonderful. It was peaceful and I'll even say it was relaxing. For the first time in my life I enjoyed professional baseball... and kept it on. Ever since, I wonder why providers don't offer announcer muting.

Yhippa• 10 years ago

Apparently ATSC 3.0 will allow for multiple audio streams: https://www.cnet.com/news/atsc-3-0-what-you-need-to-know-abo....

soared5• 10 years ago

Supposedly muting your front center speakers accomplishes this...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1lsl86/psa_how_to_mute...

atombath2• 10 years ago

If this guy loves being an announcer to the point that they'll do kid's soccer or hockey, why not try announcing for something like esports? I'm surprised more pro's haven't seen the opportunity and moved into it.

justathot• 10 years ago

maybe he likes announcing sports and not people playing videogames

zachsnow• 10 years ago

And while some people say "esports is sports", maybe this person doesn't want to announce esports. And that's just fine.

nradov• 10 years ago

Amazingly enough several colleges actually offer Bachelors degrees in sports broadcasting now. I have a feeling that they're setting up the majority of their students for disappointment.

http://learn.org/articles/Which_Schools_Offer_a_Sports_Broad...

Play-by-Play: Trying to make it as a sports commentator

Related Stories