Good News for those who hate TV announcers

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Tired of ABC announcers supposedly bashing the Husker football team?

KLIN will give you an option for Saturday's road game against Iowa State.

The Lincoln radio station (1400 AM) will sync its broadcast of the game to the delayed television feed, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. on ABC.

Television delays its feeds by five or more seconds to avoid profanity or obscene material from hitting the airwaves. The radio broadcast is live.

Viewers either can listen to ABC announcers Dave Pasch and Bob Griese or turn down the sound and tune in Greg Sharpe and Matt Davison of the Husker Sports Network.

The radio broadcast will coincide with the high-definition broadcast sent through digital cable boxes or video recorders from Time Warner Cable on channels 107 and 108.

It will not work with standard-definition signals or those from the satellite services, according to KLIN program director John Bishop. Nor does it involve Froggy 98 (KFGE 98.1 FM), which also carries the game in Lincoln.

Bishop said the station has been kicking around the idea of meshing the video and audio broadcasts for a while.

"But we didn't have the proper technology to pull it off," he said.

The station does now, and its timing couldn't be any better.

Bishop has heard from several Husker fans angry with ABC analyst Ed Cunningham, who worked Nebraska's games against Oklahoma State and Missouri. Cunningham was critical of hits by Nebraska defenders in both games.

"We sensed there's this anger," Bishop said. "I don't see it, but there's always been an element of Husker fans thinking that the national media is out to get us -- that they always have an agenda against Nebraska."

If the sync broadcast works Saturday, Bishop is optimistic KLIN will do it again for Nebraska's road game against Texas A&M, should it be carried by television.

"I also think we may be able to strike a happy medium between HD and SD," he said. "It depends on the delays."

KLIN has no plans to sync televised home games. Meshing the broadcasts would mean losing fans in the stadium who are listening to the games.

That could change, since Froggy 98 and KLIN carry the broadcasts in the Lincoln market, Bishop said. One could carry the live feed, while the other could sync to the delayed TV broadcast. It would require addressing equipment and personnel issues, he said.

"It may be something we look at next year if this becomes standard procedure," Bishop said.

Reach Jeff Korbelik at 402-473-7213 or jkorbelik@journalstar.com, or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jeffkorbelik.

 

This has been a long time wish of mine...Good news for those that can pick up 1400... It does not appear to affect the whole Pinnacle Broadcasting Network affiliates- which I find strange.

Posted in Football on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 5:11 pm Updated: 7:43 pm. | Tags: Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Klin,

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I hope they don't do this for any home games. I like listening to the radio broadcast at the games, and the delay will be more annoying than the delay in husker vision.