{"id":412106,"date":"2022-03-04T03:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/networks-mindlessly-wasting-millions-on-subpar-broadcasters\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T03:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:41:34","slug":"networks-mindlessly-wasting-millions-on-subpar-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/networks-mindlessly-wasting-millions-on-subpar-broadcasters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Networks mindlessly wasting millions on subpar broadcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26bfff33f47\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNetworks_mindlessly_wasting_millions_on_subpar_broadcasters%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Networks mindlessly wasting millions on subpar broadcasters&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As we\u2019re daily antagonized by the preposterous, we find comfort and succor in the words of philosopher and former Yankee, the fireballing right-hander, Joba Chamberlain, after a thorough blasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day,\u201d he said, \u201cthe sun comes up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Chamberlain shares a locker at the planetarium with Kyrie Irving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As chronicled by colleague Andrew Marchand, TV\u2019s mindless excesses have been on full display as networks scramble to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at NFL voices who strike most of us, if not all not us, as short of special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The money being offered by TV\u2019s shot-callers to those who are so often burdensome, objectionable obstructions to viewers and viewing is staggering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, TV execs remain convinced that what they, more than most, should know can\u2019t be done \u2014 hire announcers with the ability to have us tune in to hear them as opposed to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. It\u2019s simple: no game, no audience. How can these execs be so detached?\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>This senseless waste \u2014 hey, let\u2019s send five or six laugh-at-nothing studio guys to the sites of games where we can\u2019t hear them shouting over the background noise at halftime! \u2014 can only be the result of four things:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Sports TV execs can\u2019t distinguish bad from worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> TV execs never listen to their games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> TV execs must be free of foresight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Some lunatic has stolen the networks\u2019 checkbooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troy Aikman is a lovely fellow to chat with at functions. But in his 20 years at Fox he had not perceptibly improved to become a fluid speaker of the games before him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was stuck on prefacing his remarks with repetitive and dull idioms, while his sense of the conspicuously remarkable \u2014 a flagrant late hit to give the opposing team a first down \u2014 was treated with cotton-coated caution such as \u201can ill-advised play\u201d and \u201cnot smart.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His new deal with ESPN, $90 million over five years, is further proof that ESPN is a bad food chain, open 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aikman\u2019s longtime Fox partner, Joe Buck, is also primed to jump for lots more money. He, too, is a lovely fellow to chat with and swap comical texts, but his on-air persona is one of a stat-parrot who tries to decorate telecasts with a transparent slickness that translates to an unnatural tries-too-hard act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"980\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/image001-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=980\" alt=\"Joe buck (left) and Troy Aikman (right) \" class=\"wp-image-21410833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/image001-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 980w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/image001-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=490 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\"\/><figcaption>Joe buck (left) and Troy Aikman (right) <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">FOX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why would Aikman and Buck be in such great demand? When I discover the answer, you\u2019ll be the second to know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now ESPN\u2019s lead college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently in play. In 1996, Herbstreit broke in at ESPN glazed with promise. He was candid, succinct, sharp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But he soon became a tough indulgence, an overbearing blabbermouth eager to speak genuine pigskin gibberish to dazzle audiences and know-nothing TV execs rather than best serve both by speaking plain, applicable English.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NBC will retain Cris Collinsworth with a $12.5 million per deal to continue to talk down to us and tell us that what we just saw he could see coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So now the obvious and redundant: Has there ever been a sportscaster who makes us tune to a game, actually watch what we otherwise had no plan to watch? Of course not. They\u2019ve a better chance of chasing us away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best the best can do is enhance the telecast. A Doc Emrick and Marv Albert could keep us tuned to a blowout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1193648851.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kirk Herbstreit\" class=\"wp-image-21410875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1193648851.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1193648851.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1193648851.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1193648851.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kirk Herbstreit<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the third period of lopsided games, Emrick went into his anecdotal mode, his charm, hockey wisdom feel-through friendship with audiences holding their attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Albert exploited NBA \u201cgarbage time\u201d to bring out the fun side of his analyst, to humanize him even if it took a metaphoric hot foot. His late-game, chops-busting exchanges with the late John Andariese and Mike Fratello were special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, the late Skip Caray, son of Harry and longtime TV voice of the Atlanta Braves, put it wonderfully. Late in blowouts he\u2019d say, \u201cIf you promise to patronize our advertisers, you are dismissed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_the_hubbub_about_Harden_NY_%E2%80%98return\"><\/span>Why the hubbub about Harden NY \u2018return\u2019?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over the weekend, a mailing from the second-market broker TickPick informed us that tickets for this past Sunday\u2019s 76ers-Knicks game were growing more expensive in response to James Harden\u2019s expected return to play in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating. Given that Harden was a Net for about 20 minutes, such a sentimental sell at inflated prices seemed odd. Even if the Garden was loaded with Philly fans, such deep, expensive regard for his \u201creturn\u201d to New York was surprising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that explains why the Yankees will retire Harden\u2019s number.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BASKETBALL-NBA-PHI-NYK_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"James Harden\" class=\"wp-image-21410923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BASKETBALL-NBA-PHI-NYK_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BASKETBALL-NBA-PHI-NYK_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BASKETBALL-NBA-PHI-NYK_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/BASKETBALL-NBA-PHI-NYK_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>James Harden<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fellow who should have received the most attention during the ABC\/ESPN telecast of the game was the Sixers\u2019 team doctor for performing an overnight miracle full of Harden\u2019s chronically troublesome hamstring, the one that prevented him from playing for the Nets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Harden forced his trade from the Rockets to the Nets after he\u2019d made it clear he no longer wished to play for Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps Harden last week boarded that fabled miracle flight to Palm Beach International, the one in which old folks are escorted to the gate in wheelchairs then dash off the plane when it arrives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MLB_fans_strike_out_with_Rob\"><\/span>MLB fans strike out with Rob<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is so much Bud Selig in Rob Manfred you could retch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When MLB installed interleague play, Selig claimed it was \u201ca gift to our fans.\u201d Baloney. It was a gift to team owners who im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely jacked up the costs for tickets to those games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even when Barry Bonds was identified as a PED slugger, Selig allowed team owners to jack the prices to games when the Giants, with Bonds, came to town. And when new Yankee Stadium opened, his claim to have personally found all tickets affordable remains a conspicuously sustaining crock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Now Manfred asks us to believe that he was fulfilling the wishes of \u201cour fans\u201d by lobbying the MLBPA to further diminish both the regular season and postseason by making as many as 14 teams eligible for the playoffs. Yeah, like Selig, he\u2019s a populist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not that baseball fans lately are easy to find, but have you heard even two clamoring for more rounds of playoffs?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More playoff layers will benefit only team owners, as per ticket and TV revenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MLB is making further moves to sell exclusive rights to games to additional-pay streaming services, making baseball less accessible to its devoted but thoroughly abused and ignored fans\/customers\/suckers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> of an open-ended delay in the start of the season has allowed remaining MLB fans to enjoy a well-earned sense of schadenfreude, a German word meaning taking pleasure in others\u2019 misery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Chris Kirk is a late-blooming PGA Tour comer, perhaps late to bloom as he\u2019s a recovering alcoholic. Every time Kirk appears on TV, his alcoholism is noted. NBC\u2019s Dan Hicks did so last weekend as Kirk challenged for the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1373015195.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Chris Kirk\" class=\"wp-image-21410958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1373015195.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1373015195.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1373015195.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1373015195.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chris Kirk<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Funny, Tiger Woods\u2019 drug rehab stay \u2014 after he was found in his car passed out on several opioids \u2014 has been totally ignored by Hicks as well as most U.S. TV golf voices. Kind of ruins the angle that he\u2019s the greatest guy on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Reader Steve Arendash reasons that the Knicks\u2019 game-plans start and end with which uniform they\u2019ll wear.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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