The Announcers Thread

Once again, Fox's pit reporting lags behind the others. There was no mention of Dinger's cool suit not working until he gets out of the car and is on the ground. All the focus at the end was on Reddick, SVG, and Blaney.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I recall that was promoted during yesterday's race. Since Fox has done that many times before, it would be more chatter-worthy if they weren't doing it.
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I suppose if you are one of the many fox trolls, that would excite ya if the drivers didn't do it, but I find that I usually learn something about the cars or team functions by those who are closer to the sources than announcers who are never seen in the garages these days.
 
StandOnIt said:
I suppose if you are one of the many fox trolls, that would excite ya if the drivers didn't do it, but I find that I usually learn something about the cars or team functions by those who are closer to the sources than announcers who are never seen in the garages these days.
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I agree about learning from active drivers in the booth.

As usual, I didn't make my point. Fox has done this for years, so I don't know why continuing to do so would spawn new conversations. I could see discussions being spawned if Fox discontinued the practice, mostly along the lines of "What did they do that for?"

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
 
MRM said:
Versant could come out smelling like a rose when the NFL renegotiates and networks start shuddering other sports. Those could land with Versant. If so, maybe that eventually helps NASCAR.

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Versant is coming out of a lot of things smelling like a rose here lately.

They went all in on women's sports, which seemed like an odd move out of necessity. But now, ESPN is trying to play catchup.

When Bari Weiss does to CNN what she did to CBS News, MS NOW is going to gain a lot of viewers and acquire some serious talent.

And so far, sporting events on USA Sports have overperformed expectations, and by a lot.
 
Tumbleweed said:
I think Adam Alexander is the best announcer calling NASCAR races right now. In my opinion, he beats Diffey, Joy and would at least tie with Bestwick if he were calling races right now.

Someone racing now who I think is going to be quite good for commentary in the booth some day will be Ross Chastain. I've heard him do several of the O'Reilly races and was impressed by him there.

I use to think that Diffey was one of the best at calling any kind of race. I especially liked him with Steve Matchett and David Hobbs on F1 (Matchett was an absolute trip doing commentary). Lately, Diffey has been just annoying me however.
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Alan Bestwick, an announcers announcer..
 
HoneyBadger said:
If he retired at the end of this season, Jamie Little would replace him.

I'm hoping Mike Joy hangs in there a few more years so FOX can see what they have in Eric Brennan.
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I have no issues with Jamie, but IMO she's not ready for Cup
 
HoneyBadger said:
So the war is the excuse even though other races recorded increases.
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Had to get the war started before March Madness begins or nobody would be watching.

Fox had three of four races this weekend but I don't remember any war updates from the notably administration-friendly network.
 
MRM said:
Don't forget Fox now owns a piece of IndyCar. They are going to be more invested in the success and the product.
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Yeah, but is it that much harder to bring the same quality to coverage of both? I think Fox has long regarded the NASCAR audience as less sophisticated. It's not like NASCAR has done much to discourage that approach.
 
MRM said:
Don't forget Fox now owns a piece of IndyCar. They are going to be more invested in the success and the product.
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FOX thinks their NASCAR broadcasts are good though. And there are A LOT of people who think FOX and TNT's coverage is great and Amazon and USA is terrible.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I've never particularly cared for Phil but I agree he's better than Waltrip. Phi doesn't constantly shill for NASCAR and Toyota.
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Phil's problem is he's constantly making excuses for bad driving. He wants to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but there are times when I feel like he's watching a completely different race than the rest of us
 
What was the deal with Larry Mac over the weekend? He was very hoarse on Saturday. I get it. Cross country travel can mess with a person's system. Then on Sunday, the right side of his mouth had a pronounced droop. Some have said he had a stroke (I doubt that or he wouldn't have worked). Some have said it could be Bells Palsey. I had to look that up. Seems more likely. Neither Larry nor anyone with Fox has commented.
 
MRM said:
Versant could come out smelling like a rose when the NFL renegotiates and networks start shuddering other sports. Those could land with Versant. If so, maybe that eventually helps NASCAR.

awfulannouncing.com

Versant stands to be big winner in NFL media rights negotiations

Versant stands to be a big winner of the upcoming NFL media rights negotiations as other networks dump sports inventory.
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Stumbled across this yesterday:



I agree with the narrator's expectation too: FOX drops NASCAR if it keeps the NFL, like NBC did when they got the NBA and MLB back. They have enough content to fill that spring void now.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I don't know if I'd recognize 4K if I saw it. Maybe I'm just so old everything looks better than what I grew up with.
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That's a great point. I have a 4K TV. I compared a 4K broadcast to a regular broadcast and could not tell the difference at first. Then when I looked closer on the 4K I could actually see the hair on the players arms which was not as clear on the regular broadcast. One thing was for sure, it's not an oh wow moment for me.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I don't know if I'd recognize 4K if I saw it. Maybe I'm just so old everything looks better than what I grew up with.
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There isn't a huge amount of 4K content in sports that's available. Yesterday's race was. Some college football and basketball games are. There is also some NBA, golf, soccer, and a few others. Where you find the most 4K content is streaming services for movies and TV shows. It looks good on a larger TV.

Standard programming on bigger TVs tend to look average to below average depending on the provider. You're taking a so-so picture and increasing it to fit a larger TV. It's naturally going to look worse than on a smaller TV. My 42" plasma makes regular TV look better than my 65" OLED.

Some people cannot tell much of a difference in true 4K than a standard picture quality. My wife is like that. Don't feel bad if you can't tell. Your eyes may see those things differently.
 
MRM said:
Don't feel bad if you can't tell.
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Well, in order to feel bad, I'd first have to know 1) whether my TV is capable of displaying 4K; and 2) the resolution of the content I'm viewing.

I suspect that even knowing those two things, I'd only be able to tell a difference by having the same content on two sets side by side, one 4K, one not.

Outside of motorsports and golf, we don't watch much of the content types you described. Almost all the movies we watch are on TCM, and I'm darn sure none of that is 4K ;) Scripted programs are mostly documentaries or British mysteries on PBS. Again, not likely 4K (except maybe Nature?).

Every time a new improvement in TV technology is announced, I always think, "Better picture, same crappy content" :(
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I don't know if I'd recognize 4K if I saw it. Maybe I'm just so old everything looks better than what I grew up with.
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If you're on cable, you probably don't get any 4K content at all and if you do, you probably have to pay extra for it. And many live sports and many movies that are 4K are actually just upscaled HD.

When something is shot in true 4K, shot on film and remastered, or the remastering process is meticulous, the picture is stunning.

The digitally remastered 4K version of Titanic, for instance, looks better than most modern movies. Of course many modern movies look like ass because it's all CGI and CGI is actually, somehow, getting worse.

The entirety of the Winter Olympics were in 4K and they looked stunning. Amber Glenn in 4K was a religious experience.

The Daytona 500 looked good in 4K. Not as good as NBC's coverage of the Olympics, and I assume it was an upscale. But it looked a hell of a lot better than whatever microwave my local FOX and CW stations use to transmit signal.
 
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