The other day, I was watching curling on TSN, and Vic Rauter was in the box doing the play-by-play. Curling ended, and we joined bowling already in progress. And Vic Rauter was in the box doing the play-by-play. Or was he?
Now, the curling was live, so I’m assuming Vic Rauter was actually in Vernon calling those games. The bowling was very obviously taped, but my question is, was Vic Rauter there?
I mean, did he go to the bowling event and do the call live-to-tape and then it got edited and put on the air? Or did a camera crew go to the bowling event and Vic did the call from a studio somewhere but based on the full tape? Or did a camera crew go to the bowling event, and Vic got the edited footage and did the call only on the highlights?
I’m interested in both the specific and generalized answers to this question. IE, if you happen to know if Vic Rauter was at the bowling championship event that aired yesterday, that’d be nifty, but if you also happen to know what the general practices are on covering tape delayed events, that would also be nifty.
Generally, if it’s a non-international event, anyone doing play-by-play will be there. I know ESPN has used the “guys in a studio” technique for World Cup games and the World Baseball Classic Group A games, and SPEED doesn’t send their broadcast team to any of the Formula 1 grands prix, but for domestic stuff, the broadcaster will typically pay their talent to show up.
As far as taped vs. live, I know that the WWE has their announcers doing the show as-live when they tape Smackdown!, but if they need to go in and do an edit between taping and airing, they can.
I know that for all of the televised diving competitions I was involved with, the commentators were always there live doing the commentary ad lib as the dives were being done and as the slow motion replays were being run. All of the dives and commentary were later edited together but I suppose they could have gone back and redone some of the segments
That was interesting, thanks! I thought for sure this thread was going to be lost with no anwers when it made it a whole day without a response.
I was watching another sport on the CBC – a snowboarding event – that I’d swear was called by people watching a highlights package. Either that or the editing was effing brilliant. Because the patter was effortlessly transitioned between runs and heats. It seemed very seamless, for video that was clearly heavily edited down.