You think broadcasting a national sporting event is easy? Think again. This is everything that goes into a World Series broadcast:
They shouldn’t have stopped the World Series broadcast in the middle of the game
Last night, the World Series stopped just because FOX wanted to show a “technical difficulties” announcement. It was a bad idea. Because all people wanted to do was watch the game.
- Players, baby!
- Someone to cobble shoes for all the TV employees
- Obviously you will need a television of your own
- TV cords
For years, FOX has broadcasted every World Series game without major incident. Until last night. Imagine this: one minute, FOX is showing some weird 19th century LARP thing with a hill and a wooden stick and shit, and the next minute:
WE ARE EXPERIENCING
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
PLEASE STAND BY
I completely disagree with this decision.
Selfishly speaking, of course, I wanted to watch the game. But the case I intended to build here is that it was, in fact, in FOX’s best interests to continue to broadcast the baseball game.
1. FOX might as well have just shown the game without interrupting it, since they already paid for the rights
Consider this: FOX basically paid millions of dollars just to be able to get the rights to show the game. So, if they already paid that money, they might as well get their money’s worth and show the whole game!
2. No one wanted to watch the “technical difficulties” screen
Executives will probably look at the readings and yell, “look at this! Millions of people watched the ‘technical difficulties’ screen! Folks are going bonkers over it! Let’s show it some more.”
Well, the only reason people kept it on is because it was set to that channel already, since that’s the channel the game was on. They also didn’t change the channel, just in case the broadcast went back to the baseball game.
That doesn’t mean that people actually liked watching the “technical difficulties” screen. You won’t be able to just show that all the time and expect people to turn in.
Not even close. TV is all about the dollars, baby. That last sentence should be in the next section, but it’s so important that I didn’t want to wait.
3. If nobody wants to watch it, they won’t be able to show ads and TV is all about the dollars, baby
TV is all about the dollars, baby. I’ve made this infographic to illustrate where those dollars go, and why they matter.
I don’t feel like writing the rest of this article. Later
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