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Is a Translator in KBME 790AM's Future?

BamaTX said:
Soccer is not fast. It may be non stop, but it isn't fast. It's the announcers that fool you as they try to talk fast. 98% of the time, soccer is a game of passing the ball. How many strikes at the goal are done on average in 90 minutes of play??
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I've been responsible for both football broadcasts (flagship station for Alabama football, same, years later, for Seminoles football) and soccer broadcasts (Liga MX, Chivas, and several teams in Ecuador on several stations) and worked with football play by play greats like Doug Layton and Gene Deckerhoff. Keeping up with play in pro soccer is much harder than in football, which is much more dependent on color due to lack of more than a few seconds of action at a time.

I've seen soccer play-by-play announcers literally collapse after an intense game.

Here is one of the best narrators calling what is maybe the best goal in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTyYTmkp2s
 
It is harder, I'm not going to deny that. Announcers have to constantly announce where the ball is headed to, who has it, who he is going to pass it to, which defender is trying to take the ball away, then which way the ball is kicked and who it is passed to....And so on and so on.

But I don't let the hard profession of futbol announcing trick me. They have to be fast because the ball is always in motion. But when you watch it on screen, it is a lot slower. Much slower.

Soccer seems to be the new "it" among hipsters. I gave it a try and I still don't get the excitement over it. There has to be something to it since most of the world enjoys it, but I just don't know what that "it" is.
 
schmave said:
Go figure that the Astros ultimately not only will again have games on KTRH, but *wanted* to the past several years to complement their signal issues on 790. Must not have been such a bad idea after all.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sp...anges-likely-to-be-boon-for-fans-13396093.php
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I have zero doubt that the Astros have always wanted to be on 740. I have serious doubt that iHeart wants them there.

The article says they won't be preempting KTRH's cash cow afternoon show for the Astros, so apparently, they'll be on 790 only until 7PM. That tells me KTRH was losing money by airing Astros games before.
 
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