![]() I’d also like to hear from more players during the broadcast (pre-recorded of course) on what they loved or feared or did when they grew up. Baseball lends itself better to those conversations because you have more space to breathe, so I’d love that. But, I think one thing I’d want for a kid-centric broadcast is the “kid” or “child personality” to be more heavily involved in asking questions of the analyst. I don’t know a ton of the Nickelodeon brand, outside slime. Mike Ferrin, Arizona Diamondbacks and MLB Network Radio I grew up on “The Baseball Bunch.” Tommy Lasorda had that cool uncle genie vibe on that show. But I’d encourage a wide range of age groups. I’m not versed in the best young talent currently. I’d probably trend towards the video game announcers to start, they are familiar voices. Hosts can take opportunities to break away for quick tutorials, rules explanations, give them enough space to do live instructionals, welcome youth players from local leagues, interview special guests, bounce around social, do some TikToks and zero into the game when the big moments occur. Perhaps a “film room” feel that taps in and out of the game broadcast. The award for most delightful rendition of the 7th Inning Stretch goes to… □□□ #AuthenticFan /l07HLgfik2īrian Anderson, Turner Sports, Milwaukee Brewers We had Cookie Monster sing the stretch a couple years ago and I would absolutely want him as an analyst. I would want to incorporate Sesame Street characters. I think the big one would be “baseball math.” I love the idea of “let’s figure out this guy’s batting average” and ERA. (With Nickelodeon part of the ViacomCBS portfolio, the baseball media rights-holder would have to use their own assets related to children programming.) Len Kasper, Chicago White Sox radio ![]() We did not ask them specifically to use Nickelodeon characters, though some did. With the success of the Nickelodeon broadcast, The Athletic reached out to people involved in MLB broadcasts for their ideas on how baseball could do a televised game in that same spirit. I’d welcome any pursuits in this direction.” There is so much beauty in baseball that needs to be explained to be understood, appreciated and ultimately enjoyed. “There is a fine line between teaching the game while not talking down to the audience,” Anderson said. But duplicating what Nickelodeon did would be unique for baseball as a specific broadcast geared toward younger viewers, the type of demographic that baseball so desperately needs. ![]() Major League Baseball has had its own alternate analytics-heavy broadcasts, just like football has leaned into coach-centric broadcast. Nobody seems to hate baseball like baseball fans.īut really, shouldn’t there be a place for those who love baseball to pass that along, to share it, to celebrate it with the next generation of baseball fans? Why should the NFL have all the fun? Sure, one of Derek Jeter’s first acts when he took over the Marlins was to evict the glorious Red Grooms sculpture that came to life with every Marlins home run every bat flip turns into a referendum on the “right way to play” and, well, then there’s the Hall of Fame … OK, we do it to ourselves in baseball. The on-air talent was geared to kids, including 24-year-old play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle (the radio voice of the NBA’s Clippers and the son of Ian Eagle), analyst Nate Burleson of CBS Sports, and Nickelodeon performer Gabrielle Nevaeh Green, who appears on “All That” and “Unfiltered.” The sideline reporter was 14-year-old Lex Lumpkin, who works with Green on those shows. In a matter of minutes, they were able to get plays back as what everyone called ‘Nick-ified,’ and seconds after that, they appeared on screens. Over the course of months of planning between CBS Sports and Nickelodeon, a production system was set up where broadcast trucks at the site sent game footage to Nickelodeon animators in New York City. The Turner Sports broadcaster and television voice of the Milwaukee Brewers wanted to see what the game between the Saints and Bears looked like on the children’s network.Īnderson, who has coached a middle school basketball team in Wisconsin every year since 2007, ended up watching the whole game on Nickelodeon, along with more than 2 million others (2.061 million, with the main broadcast on CBS drawing 28.592 million.) Produced by ViacomCBS, the Nickelodeon broadcast had a separate production truck onsite in New Orleans for things such as the slime graphics and SpongeBob icons popping on screen. Brian Anderson, like so many other people, was curious about the NFL’s playoff game on Nickelodeon on Sunday.
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