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FSN West 2 Went Old School Today...

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DiamondJoe

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Today, they are telecasted the Dodgers/Astros game mostly in black-and-white, with alternate graphics and camera shots. No modern graphics, bells and whistles, or that Fox Sports sounder. It was to commemmorate the 50th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers championship team.

Throughout the telecast, they were introducing the "new" techniques that came about, such as the "wipe" and the slo-mo replay. Color resumed in the 6th inning, with the modern FSN graphics, bells and whistles resuming in the 8th.

Perhaps you've taken advantage of seeing this if you live on the West Coast, or if you have the MLB Extra Innings package.

P.S. Mod mistake - I didn't realize there was a California TV board because I'm rarely on it. ;)
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> Today, they are telecasted the Dodgers/Astros game mostly in
> black-and-white, with alternate graphics and camera shots.
> No modern graphics, bells and whistles, or that Fox Sports
> sounder. It was to commemmorate the 50th anniversary of the
> Brooklyn Dodgers championship team.
>
> Throughout the telecast, they were introducing the "new"
> techniques that came about, such as the "wipe" and the
> slo-mo replay. Color resumed in the 6th inning, with the
> modern FSN graphics, bells and whistles resuming in the 8th.

FOX did this on their Saturday game (Cubs vs. somebody) a couple of years ago.
 
> FOX did this on their Saturday game (Cubs vs. somebody) a
> couple of years ago.

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> FOX did this on their Saturday game (Cubs vs. somebody) a
> couple of years ago.
>

I think WGN did the same on one of their games. I also remember a couple of years ago ESPN broadcasting college basketball w/ "old school" graphics and the old ESPN logo (though they did run with a constant scoreboard, except it was transparent and had the old logo on it)

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> FOX did this on their Saturday game (Cubs vs. somebody) a
> couple of years ago.
>
It was a Cubs-Dodgers game from Wrigley Field, and I don't think they it for any particular special occasion regarding one or both of the teams.
 
Wasn't the Fox Network's retro baseball telecast either in 1999 to mark the 60th anniversary of the first televsied major-league game or in 2001 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first live coast-to-coast telecast of a baseball game (which I believe was the 1951 playoff between Brooklyn and the old New York Baseball Giants for the National League pennant)??

I presume that the FSN West 2 telecast probably began not only in black-and-white, but probably with one camera (two at most) and probably one announcer doing both play-by-play and analysis for the first couple of innings.

BTW, I believe the first color telecast of a baseball game was the first game of the 1955 World Series (NBC); I think the first local color telecast of a baseball game was probably a Cincinnati Reds game on WLWT-5 in the late 1950's.
 
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