Really nice moments and terrific coverage by all.
There IS and was a parade for the Giants and, for the most part, switching around the dials, Bay Area TV outlets caught all the special moments with just the right amount of giddiness without any false gushing.
Nice job.
A funny moment when KTVU's cameras caught the KNTV float with the NBC peacock and news anchors. The former Giants TV station could not cut away from the present Giants TV station fast enough.
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ReplyDeleteYou know that English guy on KPIX,Liam something?..Well,he got a little touchy feely with Giant players by rushing up to them and putting his arm around their shoulder as he got in some upclose questions. You could see it sort of creeped Wilson out as he clearly turned his head and stared at Liams chubby hand on his shoulder. I think Liam was taking libertys with the situation to get veeery close to those studs-wink,wink.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake of taping the CSNBayArea coverage from up north in the Hinterlands (since DISH doesn't give us SF stations). Awful. Rob Schneider for 3+ hours? And at least 20% of the time, they filled the screen with the hideous CSN set, with the three hosts yakking away. They even did split screen, to make sure we saw the anchors (?). The female field reporters were OK. One of them teared up in her interview with Kruk And Kuip.
ReplyDeleteI later discovered that most Sacramento stations also had coverage. KMAX-CW31/KTXL-Fox/KCRA/KXTV all had coverage at least through 1PM. KCRA switched to a very important Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Show shortly before 1PM. KMAX stayed with it until 105PM or so. KTXL and KXTV bailed @1PM too, as far as I could tell.
CSN plans several re-airs. Tragic that they spent so much time showing their studio set.
A lot of reporters were getting extra "grabby" as they ran from cable car to cable car. Some jumped into other's interviews. But that was just the nature of the day and everyone should just go with it and have a smile on their faces.
ReplyDeleteI jumped back a forth between the SF stations, mostly settling on 7 by the end and then recorded the re-broadcast on Comcast, who did get the final comments of the ceremony which were cut off on 7. It was a great bit were Torres wished his wife a happy birthday today to which the quick Jon Miller thanked the crowd for coming to Andre Torres' wife's birthday party and that we should celebrate it again next year.
I watched some of the coverage & would flip stations anytime a reporter ran up to a player on the cable car. Why not leave the players alone & let them enjoy the moment? Did the reporters really need to ask "How do you feel?". Anyone notice KTVU & KNTV (NBC) aired commercials, while others did not? For me the best coverage & commentary were KTVU & MLB network.
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