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High school/minor league sports on OTA

nomadcowatbk said:
aren't most pf the people who follow a HS FB team already at the game? do they watch other HS FB games that don't have any impact on their team?
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They are not necessarily all at the game. You could have Grandpa homebound and can't get there. Maybe the weather is bad. Maybe you cheer for the road team and don't want to/can't go to the game. Maybe you graduated 20 years ago and don't have the time to go but can catch the second half when you get home. If it a game for other teams in your conference/region, you very well might watch at least part of it to see how good the other teams are.
 
Agreed. There's potential viewers in all aspects of the broadcast.
The SWX Kennewick crew always used 3 cams (Sony or Grass Valley). One field cam and two up on top of the stadium. Same w/ basketball. I think the Spokane SWX uses slightly better equipment and more cams.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
You can do quite well with five cameras for football using high cameras on the 20/50/20 yard lines, one end zone shot and a roving field camera. Just make sure the high cameras know how their assignments change with the game field position.
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We had two high on the 50 (no 20-yard line platform in high school stadiums), two handheld, and one on the back of a pickup. So no end-zone as such, though a handheld would usually scoot over for kicks.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
You can do quite well with five cameras for football using high cameras on the 20/50/20 yard lines, one end zone shot and a roving field camera. Just make sure the high cameras know how their assignments change with the game field position.
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Five cameras would be a heck of a lot for an HS football game (outside of Texas, lol).

Most of the school productions I see use just one camera. Sometimes two and rarely three. As another poster pointed out, most of the HS stadiums aren't set up for numerous camera positions. I have broadcast football games for many years in Kentucky and Indiana, and I've called more games than I care to count from outdoors due to lack of space (although many of those were in the Covid year).
 
a lot of the steamed HS games are produced by broadcasting classes or AV Clubs, many small town radio stations broadcast games that are amateurish compared to the NFL and big college radio networks
 
how much space do the large Texas HS stadiums have for TV/streaming? do any of them have more than low budget production values that most of the televised/stream games have?
 
The Albuqurque ABC station Koat airs the Colorado Rockeys AAA baseball team games during the season.
In Southbend Indiana the AAA Cubs games are aired on WMYs and WCWW
In Indianapolis the AAA Indians games were aired on WXIN a Fox station this past season.
WNDY in Indianapolis airs high school football on Friday nights.
 
In Arizona high school football airs on KPHE Az Sports and entertainment network. The channel airs a lot of local sports from high school sports, Phoenix Suns and WNBA games, the Phoenix rising games to GCU sports.
 
Gray TV has a few sports only stations in Ohio and here in Minnesota that are over the air. Was added earlier this year in Duluth, Mankato and Rochester. They show the St Paul Saints home games (MN Twins top minor league team) and show local college and high school sports. It’s other random sports programming the other times
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Are we talking about HS games airing on a primary channel or a subchannel? I doubt any network affiliate would blow out programming for that.

An issue is the cost of producing the games versus potential revenue. Some stations that have tried HS football found it to be a money pit.

Here in Houston ABC O&O KTRK had a slate of HS football on one of its subchannels some years ago, but IIRC it only lasted a couple of seasons.
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Ok but wouldn't a lot of local business want to advertise for local high school games..... You would think.
 


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