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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Dryden said:
ABC needed this contract, no matter the cost. It was a gamble, but at that time as the 60s drew to a close, ABC had successfully produced a grand total of one TV show that was a multi-year Top 10 hit for the entire decade of the 60s, Bewitched. They'd been the slowest adopter of color TV and were lagging badly.
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I worked part-time for WBNS in the 60s. Both WLW and WBNS folks would turn on the ABC affiliate (WTVN?) and count the number of times they failed to let a commercial start on time/finish. Every flubbed commercial was a commercial you couldn't bill and we wondered how they made money given the number of errors they made.

Not that WBNS was so great - 1967 and they were still using stills for most local news stories (Chet Long was a true troglodyte). In 63/64, while WLW-C was switching to color, BNS bought a new set of 3 RCA TK-60s - the world's best B/W cameras.
 
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cincibuck said:
Do you remember Curt Gowdy, Chris Schenkel, and Mell Allen miscalling every game they got close to? If your idea of bad announcing is Herbie, it's because you never had to hear Mell Allen declare that every player in the Rose Bowl game was an All-American.

OTH, I do miss the parrot and the music for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.
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Howard Cossell after every play:

“Possibly the greatest [insert position] in the N…F… L… to…day”​
 
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OHSportsFan said:
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For anyone interested in more details from Canzano:

I’ve spent a game day inside the Centralized Command Center in San Francisco. One of the interesting things I learned there was how inconsistent the number of cameras is from Pac-12 game to game. Mike Ortiz, the conference’s senior director of video operations, showed me a dozen angles in one Pac-12 stadium that day and only six on another. Turns out six is the minimum number of cameras contractually allowed for any conference game.

Guess how many ESPN had for the Oregon-WSU game?

Answer, per a source: Six.
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I’m told ESPN’s normal spotter for the 7:30 p.m. game was also out last night, per an industry source. That source only noticed this and thought to inquire because he was watching the game from home in the second half and noted that broadcasters Dave Flemming and Rod Gilmore weren’t routinely referencing the names of players who made tackles. A backup spotter was there but only helping the crew on big plays such as sacks and interceptions.
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Takeaway: ESPN went on the cheap on a late broadcast that the network knew an important swath of the country wasn’t likely to see anyway. I’ve reached out to ESPN and will update if/when they provide a response but the prevailing sentiment is that the network treats the Pac-12 this way, well ... because it can.
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Canzano: Pac-12 deserves better than ESPN’s fuzzy, low-budget broadcast - oregonlive.com
 
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