Why is the Blazers broadcast so terrible?

[Hey]

Seriously though. First off, the commercials are just terrible. The logos are terrible. The video editors seem like they don't know how to use a decent software program. Honestly theres community college students at Mt. Hood that can produce more professional quality broadcasts.

I also don't understand why they haven't hired anyone to do the court reporting. Porter obviously didn't work so now they're going with Michael Holton who's a bit bearable.

All of it just seems so low budget. Maybe because it is, but still.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Always been way too cheesy.always.even the 90s were bad

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[MickZagger]

I watch the games for basketball, I could really give two shits about logo's and such.

 

[RipCityInsider]

"Believe me, I would know if they dropped the ball."

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Seems OK to me.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I watch a lot of league pass, and the Blazer broadcasts don't seem any better or worse than anyone elses?

 

[Hey]

Perhaps it just bothers me because I use to major in Graphic Design

 

[THE HCP]

Hey ,Hey. Maybe you should go down and apply for a position with Blazer Broadcasting and apply your experience and expertise to their show.

 

[MIXUM]

gag

 

[illmatic99]

The production quality is pretty weak, but it's similar to most other NBA teams' broadcasts. Lakers, Clippers, Nets, and Knicks have some of the best from what I've seen.

 

[RipCityInsider]

The production quality is pretty weak, but it's similar to most other NBA teams' broadcasts. Lakers, Clippers, Nets, and Knicks have some of the best from what I've seen.

All those teams you mentioned are in the biggest markets, correlation perhaps?

 

[Natebishop3]

Hey ,Hey. Maybe you should go down and apply for a position with Blazer Broadcasting and apply your experience and expertise to their show.

Did he strike a nerve?

 

[Hey]

Well I wouldn't be able to snag a job because I've switched majors and have no degree in the field. Also I never completed school for it so there's plenty I don't know. I'm not claiming I personally can do better, but I have an eye for the stuff. The art field of work today is so competitive that businesses don't have to take that much effort into finding people that will do the trick. Even if the Blazers paid a bare 30k salary per team member, that could still get people out there that have some sense of what 2011 professionalism looks like. Some of the video and photo effects used in the Comcast sports stuff looks like stuff made from an amateur honestly. I don't know if the budget is on Comcast or Paul Allen. Whatever it is, even if they paid minimum wage, if they looked hard enough they could find a lot of designers and artists that could do better. Putting an un-trained Terry Porter out there after Rebecca left just showed me that they didn't put much effort into it.

One example: the commercial with a black background and a Blazers logo with smoking coming up. The effect looks unbelievably cheesy. The acting is so terrible, it's as if they don't even do double-takes in an attempt to save film. I've seen the way B-Roy talks and acts in an official NBA commercial and also ones he does for Comcast and Ford. The difference is night and day. It's like the director doesn't even tell them to try to act interested.

 

[THE HCP]

Not at all. At the league meetings in NYC, our broadcasts are used as a positive example of how to cover basketball. We actually get props. And the funny thing is the other cat that works with me and I WENT thru Mt. Hood's TV program. I was just saying if he feels he can help us, then he should attempt to join us.

 

[Hey]

Sorry, I don't mean to offend or stir a reaction as I'm aware you do put in plenty of hard work. I know that the effects and looks aren't the only things that are going on in the production. There's just some things where I look at and I'm like "wow, they just increased the outer glow x 500 to make that text stand out".

 

[Natebishop3]

On another note, is it funny that I can tell whether the Blazers are winning or losing based on the inflection in Wheels voice? I can turn to 95.5 and within one or two seconds I can tell how bad it's going based on how depressed Wheels sounds.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

On another note, is it funny that I can tell whether the Blazers are winning or losing based on the inflection in Wheels voice? I can turn to 95.5 and within one or two seconds I can tell how bad it's going based on how depressed Wheels sounds.

Oh that's been the case for YEARS. Nothing new there.

Schonley, for all of his faults, didn't sound like he wanted to shoot himself when the team was losing.

 

[Natebishop3]

Oh that's been the case for YEARS. Nothing new there.

Schonley, for all of his faults, didn't sound like he wanted to shoot himself when the team was losing.

It's really bad. I honestly can't listen to Wheels if the team is losing.

 

[THE HCP]

Sorry, I don't mean to offend or stir a reaction as I'm aware you do put in plenty of hard work. I know that the effects and looks aren't the only things that are going on in the production. There's just some things where I look at and I'm like "wow, they just increased the outer glow x 500 to make that text stand out".

I wasn't offended. I work in the broadcast industry for everybody from the Blazers, to ESPN,TNT,Golf Ch and so on. I am curious if you have the NBA league pass and are able to watch other broadcasts? No shows are perfect, but like I said, we get compliments all the time on our broadcasts and was wondering if you are able to compare ours.

 

[Hey]

I suppose I'm just comparing it to those major broadcasters. Like MLB and NFL on Fox or CBS or NBC. NBC Sunday night football looks fabulous. (http://cdx.dexigner.com/article/10537/NBC_NFL_Troika_02_thumb.jpg) But of course, these are the big boys of national TV so it's definitely unfair to compare them to a local broadcast in a small-town. I've seen a few other teams too, and I catch the Seawhawks stuff too.

Forgive me when I asked why the broadcast is so terrible. I don't mean it as a whole because you guys do run a consistent and smooth show. My only gripe is the way it looks. Whoever heads the graphic design area could use a few tips.

 

[THE HCP]

Graphics as in the score box? Promos that we run? which ones? Another thing, we have nothing to do with the production of the commercials and I was curious what you meant by the software we use to edit video. That's my job, so I was curious what you meant. I work on a machine called an EVS.

 

[THE HCP]

http://www.evs.tv/01/Default.aspx?pageid=948

 

[Natebishop3]

I suppose I'm just comparing it to those major broadcasters. Like MLB and NFL on Fox or CBS or NBC. NBC Sunday night football looks fabulous. (http://cdx.dexigner.com/article/10537/NBC_NFL_Troika_02_thumb.jpg) But of course, these are the big boys of national TV so it's definitely unfair to compare them to a local broadcast in a small-town. I've seen a few other teams too, and I catch the Seawhawks stuff too.

Forgive me when I asked why the broadcast is so terrible. I don't mean it as a whole because you guys do run a consistent and smooth show. My only gripe is the way it looks. Whoever heads the graphic design area could use a few tips.

Those networks probably have A LOT more money to work on graphics and overall presentation.

 

[Hey]

Yeah, stuff like the box score and logos/frames that flash across the screen during the game breaks (the box score at the bottom is actually pretty decent though. I like the diagonal shape of it). Also with the "Home court" show, half-time, the areas where they try to provide stats or keys to the game. Ohhh, a good example is right before the game starts when you guys use the video of that band playing the Blazers theme song. That one is a little awkward and everything just looks kind of weird to me.

As for software, what I was getting at was the graphic editing software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator that designs the frames and layouts. I know that those two are primarily used for still-picture purposes, but you can usually make a 3D image from those and export them out onto videos. I'm not exactly sure if you guys have different methods of adding graphics to the videos.

 

[THE HCP]

Ya, all that stuff I don't deal with. I cut the highlights, instant replays and music videos during the actual game. In my opinion, you can't compare our show to a network broadcast. The budgets are at least 10X what we have to deal with. I work on network broadcasts all the time and there are 4 times the amount of people on those crews compared to ours. You should check out other local NBA broadcasts and then tell me what you think,

 

[Hey]

Will do, sir.

 

[Nate Dogg]

Seriously though. First off, the commercials are just terrible. The logos are terrible. The video editors seem like they don't know how to use a decent software program....All of it just seems so low budget. Maybe because it is, but still.

Perhaps if you rented a HD box through comcast things will look crisper and the overall broadcast looks like a lot better in HD.

 

[Hey]

I do run HD.

 

[Nate Dogg]

Hey ----> watch some other NBA networks and see how they compare to the Blazers. Don't bash them if you have nothing to compare with or make so much judgement.

 

[Hey]

Yeah, me and HCP have already established this. Either way, if I go look at the other broadcasts and see that they look funky, I'll just wonder why all these teams can't get better designers.

I say this in no bragging way, but in my prime of photoshop work, I could produce some better looking graphics. And I learned most of my skills outside of schooling.