With Sports On Hold, TV Gets Weird
The Lead
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🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
From NBA players playing HORSE to baseball announcers calling MLB The Show video games, it seems just about anything can make it onto the airwaves and pass for sports these days. The Athletic’s Jordan Bianchi joins us to break down two recent broadcasts -- an iRacing event featuring real-life NASCAR drivers, and the recent NBA 2K competition featuring NBA stars -- to help us figure out what’s working for TV broadcasts and what’s not during the strange days of the coronavirus shutdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever since sports came to a halt, TV broadcasters have been getting kind of desperate. |
| 0:12.7 | Lied games are returning to ESPN, the network will air a two-day horse challenge starting |
| 0:18.3 | Sunday, for since the basketball season. |
| 0:21.4 | Check out the NBA 2K tournament, $100,000 at stake for charity, quarter final tomorrow |
| 0:28.3 | tonight for Leipz. |
| 0:29.3 | Drivers, start your engines! |
| 0:32.3 | I'm gone! |
| 0:33.3 | 32 drivers, 150 left. |
| 0:35.3 | Here's the distance. |
| 0:37.3 | It stops time. |
| 0:39.3 | From horse competitions to MLB the show, it seems like just about anything can make it |
| 0:45.4 | onto the airwaves these days and pass for sports. |
| 0:48.3 | Today, the athletics Jordan Bianchi joins us to break down two recent sports events to |
| 0:53.8 | figure out what's working for TV broadcasters and what's not in these very strange times. |
| 0:59.8 | Now is a time to experiment. |
| 1:01.1 | Now is a time to throw ideas out there and see if they stick. |
| 1:08.9 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:11.4 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:12.7 | It's Tuesday, April 14th and this is the lead. |
| 1:16.4 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:23.1 | There was just something about the emotion and that heart of the game. |
| 1:33.1 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
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