Network/NFL Programming Idiot Morons Adding Music To Game Broadcasts (1 Viewer)

[SaintsInDome2006]

>>>A new kind of NFL scoring: adding music to TV game coverage.

Don’t laugh. Fox will formally announce today that it will do that on its regional Arizona Cardinals-Carolina Panthers game Sunday (1 p.m. ET) after an unannounced test on last week’s Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game. Fox Sports President Eric Shanks on whether such soundtracks will pop up on Fox’s upcoming Super Bowl: “It’s a possibility.”…

Fox’s Shanks says game playlists could include famous artists — “the rule is you use it just once and don’t edit it” — but will also draw on original medleys.

For Sunday’s game, Fox has 15 new cuts from James Cardoni, who has composed music for the prime-time show CSI.

But having cuts you’d hear in movies, like spooky chords when babysitters find out the calls are coming from inside the house, is one thing. Knowing when to use them is another. “This is all in the execution,” Shanks says. “Just like music in movies, you have to use it at the right times. And imagine trying to score a movie the first time you’re seeing it.” <<<

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/h...oundtrack_N.htm

I have no words for this; I just feel like someone somewhere just keeps trying to kill a great game.

You lucky enough to be watching the Cards/Panthers game (maybe for DST purposes) will have the great pleasure of something like this....

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

This fits right in with my theory about the NFL eventually becoming just choreography competitions between offenses.

 

[chook]

Just wait until they start using a female caller like one of the networks did over here for our football.

No matter how much people complained about how bad it sounded, they continued to force it down the viewer's throats because they felt they were being ground breaking.

 

[Masked Vigilante]

Fox is a joke.

 

[Prof. Chaos]

This fits right in with my theory about the NFL eventually becoming just choreography competitions between offenses.

 

[Sam Quentin]

Onion?

 

[Zaphod]

The good news is that this will only impact 9 viewers.

 

[rocketsauce]

I heard this ridiculous #### when they would cut to this game on NFL Red Zone. Thought somebody just had their head up their ### at NFL Network and was hitting the wrong button on the sound board.

Unbelievable that this is intentional and happening again. Leave it to Fox. Its embarrassing to watch a Fox Game and see how generally WORSE it is than a CBS broadcast. Likely because they flush their money and research into #### like this, instead of making their actual product, graphics, and presentation better.

We should put a bright red glow on the ball so we can follow it during play action!!!!

 

[theplayer11]

just music without some of the idiot announcers might be better

 

[Das Boot]

You lucky enough to be watching the Cards/Panthers game (maybe for DST purposes) will have the great pleasure of something like this....

Thanks for the link, it was good to see an example.I don't mind seeing something new tried, but I don't think I'd like seeing this in game.

Maybe during recaps (e.g halftime, postgame) it might be alright when the music could be perfectly matched and synced to the play.

 

[Mik789fl]

“This is all in the execution,” Shanks says.

"I'm all for it"-John McKay.

 

[RenegadeGM]

It constantly sounds like they are going to commercial... bizarre.

 

[Hooper31]

I was one of the few that witnessed this (SEA-SF last week). Those stalwart few all commented on it in the game thread. It was pretty bad. My wife and I kept giving each other weird looks, like, "Did you hear that? WTF?". Even the commentators made a few remarks about it. You could tell they were having a hard time taking it seriously.