Let’s say it’s Week 1 of the NFL season, and the game you’re watching is being played at an empty stadium because social distancing.
As a TV viewer at home, would you prefer that the network use “canned” crowd noise, or would it be distracting and you would prefer the organic silence?
Poll to follow.
I want silence. Since the noise is canned, I would know it is fake, so it would just be weird.
It’s like how I would prefer that an audience’s laugh be genuine, rather than a piped laugh track.
Noise, but it could go NBA style and play exciting music all the time. Silence would be terrible.
A music soundtrack could work, but canned crowd is just as bad as canned laughter, which is pretty bad.