I really like the local Razorback radio play by play. I listen every Saturday during basketball and football season.
If it’s televised then I watch, mute the tv, and still listen to the radio.
I just love the cadence and rhythm of radio play by play. They give so much more information and make the game entertaining. Brings me back to being a kid listening with my grandfather. Or driving somewhere in the car listening to a game.
Anyone else prefer the radio play by play?
Yes, for baseball games. Too often the TV guys are talking about things that have nothing to do with the current game, including interesting (to them) people in the stands.
I did that decades ago, because I hated Howard Cosell so much, and I refused to let him ruin Monday Night Football and the short-lived Monday Night Baseball for me.
I’d watch the games on ABC TV but listen to Hank Stram do the football games on radio, and to the local Yankee team of Bill White, Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer when the Yankees were on Monday Night Baseball.
Isn’t there a little delay between the broadcasts? On our cable system, there is a 5 second (about) delay between the time the signal is sent to the station and the digital customer receives it (if you want to know how I know, ask, but that’s a fact). I don’t believe radio stations have that, as they aren’t digital (AM, FM at least).
Yes, I’ve noticed that, too. I sometimes am doing something else (reading, crocheting) while watching, and I hear the radio announcer being enthusiastic about a well-hit ball or a great defensive play and am alerted to look up and see it.
My parents used to do that in my childhood, Jim Irwin and Max McGee on the Packers radio broadcasts. If there was a delay between the radio live and TV live it was hardly noticable then. But nowadays with all the delays built into TV system is too long to make it watchable for me… though it you aren’t actively watching TV like MLS suggested, it can still work.
Back in the '70s and early '80s when I used to watch Vikings football, everyone I knew turned down the TV (no mute buttons then) and listened to the radio play by play. The radio guys were local and more knowledgeable about the players, and they didn’t blather on about crap nobody cared about, like how cold it was in Met Stadium.
The first time I remember doing that was with the 1990 World Cup final - the audio was on BBC World Service, which I got through my cable TV service, and the video was on Univision, since the ABC broadcast had commercials and this one didn’t.
I can do it now, but I have to jump through some hoops; it has to be a satellite radio broadcast (it always has both teams’ home feeds for the World Series and Stanley Cup Finals), and I have to delay the cable TV broadcast by a few seconds as satellite radio is on a 15-second delay. (The cable TV is also on a delay - it drives me crazy on New Year’s Eve - but not quite as much as the radio.)
I do this with Indians baseball games. Radio is my default medium and I only get like a half dozen games on broadcast tv per year. I would miss the radio horribly if it wasn’t on. Yes there is a delay but oh well.
Today I watched the Browns on mute with the Indians on the radio!
I’ve done this from time to time (it used to be Jim and Max, now it’s Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarron). I’m in Chicago, but can usually get WTMJ in Milwaukee to come in reasonably well on my radio. I’ll also sometimes do it if the Brewers are on TV here.
Years ago, ads promoting radio coverage of the Seattle Seahawks urged fans to turn down the sound on the TV network broadcast of the game and listen to the local play by play men instead. I think they got in trouble with the NFL and the networks with that campaign so it was dropped.
A great local play by play commentator adds so much to the game. They often have years and years of experience calling that team. They know the coach and players really well. It makes a big difference.
I know people who do it for language reasons: the game is being shown in a channel whose language they don’t understand, so it’s the TV for video and the radio for explanations.
One of my million get rich schemes is to patent and sell a way to time shift radio to match up with TV for this purpose.
My grandfather used to do that very thing back in the 80s when he was watching Chicago Cubs games.
Jack Buck and Hank Stram were the absolute best doing Monday Night Football on the radio. I sure do miss those guys.
I can listen to baseball on the radio and feel like I’ve missed nothing. Baseball is just too boring on TV (IMHO). Not so with football or basketball, it’s just the opposite.
I’ve done it. But with DVR’s, I’m always at least a little bit delayed from “live.” Usually more like 10 to 15 minutes, so I can skip commercials.
You may be kidding, but if not, it’s a trivial circuit to design and execute. All you need is enough RAM to store the digital audio signal for a few seconds to delay it. Cheap at today’s prices.
I doubt if you would find a market for it, tho.
Maybe there is a market for it, but $200 is a bit steep.
http://www.ccrane.com/radios/radio-accessories/rts-200c-radio-tv-sync.aspx#.Ui4XaNLA-WY
I did this all of the time when Larry Munson did the radio broadcast for the University of Georgia football games. Even when the transmissions weren’t in synch, his presentation was infinitely superior (in my mind) to that of the TV guys.