In this post, I will be comparing my blog to ESPN Front . When I started my; blog, my intent was to give a behind the scene view of what it takes to produce a Texas State University athletic event, and the people who make it happen. Although ESPN Front covers a wide variety of sports and goes in depth on these sports, ESPN Front Row at times posts what they have to do to broadcast professional sports, the equipment that they use and the people who make the production of ESPN broadcasts happen.
In a post which was posted just seven days ago, ESPN Front Row interviewed four of the production crew who are currently having to work from home due to the coronavirus. This post gives us an idea of who the production team and what they are having to do to get the show produced. In my blog, I too talk about the individuals who operate the cameras, and are in the control room. Both of our blogs value the people behind the scenes and the cameras. ESPN Front Row on their November 13, 2013 post gave a biography of Sport Center anchor Doug Kezrian. I too have put the biography information of individuals on my blog of the Texas State University production crew.
In two of my posts I talked about the camera setup and the function of the cameras in order to produce a quality production. I talked about the setup and the purpose of each camera. ESPN Front Row has dedicated several posts to the types of cameras that are used and how they are operated. On their October 24, 2013 pos,t they talked about how they used to set up their cameras to get sideline shots at football games and how they do it now. In a different post dated July 7, 2017, ESPN Front Row discussed their new “Front Row Cam” which allows them to get the tight shots of players during a baseball game. Although ESPN Front Row talks mainly about the equipment used to produce professional sports broadcast, both blogs convey to the reader that much time and skill is needed to operate and set up the different equipment needed to produce a sporting event.
Both ESPN Front Row and my blog are dedicated to sports, trying to give the reader a behind the scene of the different sports, although like I mentioned earlier, I dedicate my blog solely to Texas State University sports and what it takes to produce a quality production for ESPN+.
ESPN Front Row and m;y blog gives sports fans information on the equipment and the people who are responsible for the sport broadcast that they are watching. By doing this, it gets the fans more in touch with the broadcast that they are watching on television or on their computer.
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