Breaking Down the NHL Return to Play TV Experience
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With the NHL getting closer to Returning to Play, we are taking you behind the scenes for the latest Capitals Talk podcast. Rob is joined by 2 people who bring the action to your screens. Charlie Dammeyer is the lead director for NHL on NBC, and Ryan Billie is the Capitals Game Producer for NBC Sports Washington.
The trio will discuss how the games will look --- on the national and local level. Find out what life is like inside a TV production truck. And --- only one guy is a fan of the name Kraken for the new Seattle expansion team. You'll have to listen all the way to the end to find out...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, not only will this year's NHL playoffs be different because of the world we live in, |
| 0:09.6 | these playoffs are also going to look different on television with no fans in the stands in Toronto or Edmonton, |
| 0:15.7 | and the look and the sound, at least here in D.C., is going to have a very heavy Annapolis influence |
| 0:24.0 | because three of us on this podcast today all live in Annapolis and in various ways have a lot to |
| 0:31.2 | say about how this is going to all play out. I obviously am hosting the pre-imposed game shows for |
| 0:35.9 | the Caps. Ryan Billy, who you guys all know, used to be on the podcast, a ton, |
| 0:40.9 | used to produce the pre-and-post game, now doing the games for NBC Sports Washington. |
| 0:44.9 | He's going to be producing from the studio in Bethesda because we can't travel. |
| 0:50.8 | And then we also have Annapolis's own Charlie Damire, who is the lead director for the |
| 0:56.5 | NHL and NBC. And at one point, we'll go up to Edmonton, I believe, to pick up in the Western |
| 1:03.5 | Conference playoffs and get ready for the Stanley Cup final. So, Billy, let me start with you |
| 1:08.7 | in the difference of producing in a truck at the arena compared to producing and watching the entire thing on monitors and hoping and praying that your boy, Chuck D, gives you something to work with. |
| 1:22.6 | It's a lot to hope for, believe me. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, it is, in a lot of ways, it's a lot different than what we're |
| 1:29.3 | used to and what we're accustomed to of obviously working out of the truck. I mean, I should say |
| 1:33.8 | this is not totally unprecedented. We've done preseason games. This similarly, we've always had |
| 1:40.5 | control of cameras, however. It's a little different this year and how we're doing it because we don't. |
| 1:46.2 | The way this is set up is a broadcast team will be doing pretty much doing the games from the Hub Cities. |
| 1:53.3 | We'll pick up on the feeds. |
| 1:55.0 | We will have cameras that we can use for ourselves, but we're going to be more reliant on the world feed, as it's |
| 2:02.5 | called, to deliver the game to us. So for us, it's strange to do a show from a studio for |
| 2:08.5 | Jobian Locker. They're pros, but it's a different environment for them, for sure. But for us, |
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