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Tim Saunders and Todd Fedoruk suspended from Flyers/WPEN two games

Tim Saunders!!!

I grew up listening to him when he was sports director at WOOD 1300 in Grand Rapids, MI during the 90s. Outstanding radio station at the time with an impressive news room and impressive staff in general. That's awesome that he became a play-by-play man for a major market NHL team.

Clear Channel took a hatchet to that station's budget during the 00s but it remains very successful.

Sorry that he got caught in a "hot mic" moment.
 
TheBigA said:
The easy way to handle this is have a crowd mic. Aim it away from the talent. Leave it on during breaks, and kill the host mics.
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It's a little complicated in real life. It's noisy enough in most pro venues with screaming loud ad content in the arenas during breaks that announcers want to chat with each other through the headsets during breaks. I will kill mics until I hear ads playing back at me and get a clear sign from the board op.

I always have a crowd mic at the table for basketball games, plus I ask for (and usually get) an effects feed from the TV truck that I'll snag from a spare pair in the DT12 cable to the table. That gives me all of the TV crowd mics and backboard mics; squeaky sneakers, bricks hitting the rim, etc.
 
radiofan2023 said:
Board ops shouldn’t take the fall. The announcers have been doing this long enough to know that you ALWAYS assume a mic is hot.
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Sorry. I've been on both sides of that coin. Both have to do their jobs properly.

I'm not giving the announcers a free pass...they need a dope-slap for talking crude...especially in the smaller stations, where there are no board ops, and the remote talent is running the automation remotely through a laptop, or even touchtone commands.
 
radiofan2023 said:
In some cases, like the Learfield Iowa men's basketball game I was listening to last night, the engineer and the producer are the same person.
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That is typical for basketball, and I can't say I've done much producing, other that give time signals to the talent. For the college football I've done, there was a producer.
 
As one who produces and board ops for a radio network, my habit is as drilled in as it can be - when we hit a song, the mics go off. But doing it remotely stinks. I miss being behind a board with the luxury of using two hands, one to kill the mics and the other to cue the song. My guess nowadays is that the board op is remote. Why the mics stayed on is a strange one though, as they said they were going to "take the TV timeout", which leads me to believe they were supposed to hit an ID or a commercial.
 
As one who produces and board ops for a radio network, my habit is as drilled in as it can be - when we hit a song, the mics go off. But doing it remotely stinks. I miss being behind a board with the luxury of using two hands, one to kill the mics and the other to cue the song. My guess nowadays is that the board op is remote. Why the mics stayed on is a strange one though, as they said they were going to "take the TV timeout", which leads me to believe they were supposed to hit an ID or a commercial.
 
As one who produces and board ops for a radio network, my habit is as drilled in as it can be - when we hit a song, the mics go off. But doing it remotely stinks. I miss being behind a board with the luxury of using two hands, one to kill the mics and the other to cue the song. My guess nowadays is that the board op is remote. Why the mics stayed on is a strange one though, as they said they were going to "take the TV timeout", which leads me to believe they were supposed to hit an ID or a commercial.
 


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