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Post by PAmedic on Oct 20, 2005 21:55:11 GMT -5
FSN, how about SLY's suggestion? I'm no techno expert but it seems reasonable. Most of our county data and voice dispatching up here is done via microwave now; I would think you could transmit video pretty easily as well- esp over such a short distance. Up here voice and data go 20-30 miles. It shouldn't be cost-prohibitive at all. They could microwave a signal to Liberty Channel master control (wherever it is located these days). Depending on the distance, they could string a line (fiber or analog). That way there wouldn't be any sat time involved.
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Post by Sly Fox on Oct 21, 2005 0:06:13 GMT -5
So the production truck rental is the problem? That doesn't seem like much of an issue. You could do a 3-camera shoot off a cheap switcher with a CG that most any engineer could wire up in nothing flat. I could swear the school used to have a production truck. Heck, even the local cable system had a truck back in the day when I was in school that they used to telecast the L-Mets/L-Sox games using the radio call of now Illini voice Brian Barnhart. Oh well. I'm glad I didn't go ahead and get the Sky Angel hooked up just to see football this fall like I had considered.
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Post by fsn32 on Oct 21, 2005 0:39:50 GMT -5
I am certainly not the expert on the TV production side of things... so I'm not sure how much it would cost... but I know that the LBN guys have a pretty high standard... most of them work for ESPN on the weekend... so I'm guessing they ask for a top notch truck when they do things and since the money wasn't there, the games didn't air. Poetic.
As of now we don't have a truck here... they have to bring one in like they did for the VMI game.
With the increased marketing effort and gaurantee money next year... maybe it will be do-able.
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Post by eddantes on Oct 21, 2005 5:30:55 GMT -5
True about the truck, although I'm surprised that there isn't a line running from the Vines to Williams stadium.
Well, like I usually say, you have to spend money to make money. I know that televising our home games could cost tens of thousands of dollars, but it gives you the opportunity to tell recruits that their parents will be able to watch every game, and such.
Of course, the way things have been going this year, maybe we don't want them to see our games.
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Post by PAmedic on Oct 22, 2005 19:45:27 GMT -5
In spite of this team's performance, I'd spend a couple bucks to see the games up here. I'm guessing a LOT of alumni would.
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