That's really close

hold on, Wash calls for a review

That's an out. Let's see if MLB does their job

interesting for Altuve to go home...

and pass on the out at 1st base in the 3rd inning

thats an out

Stands

BOOM

We got a call from NY!!!

Does that count as Two challenges?

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This year's cameraman keeps doing HR angle on flyouts

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Watching a game on SCHN is somewhat challenging. I don't know if the director has ever really watched a quality baseball game production, but the lack of timely replays, missed shots, constant zoom/focus on players in place of replays, and the general shoddy production lead one to wonder. Sometimes it seems like they might only have 2 cameras being used on the broadcast.

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I worked in this industry for my entire career before I retired in 2023. A couple of data points that have impacted regional productions everywhere: 1. MLB pace of play initiatives have made it much harder to get replays in and especially multiple looks at the same play. 2.many of the best operators retired over the last 5 years. RSNs started in the 1980's and most operators were in their 20s. They are now in their 60s and the grind of live production has taken its toll. I know factually that several of the best Houston ops retired in the last 2-3 years. That's why you saw pretty below average camera 4 (high home) work in 2022. 3. Financial issues - these networks are all bleeding cash. That puts pressure on producers and directors to incorporate a heavier in game ad sales load of features. We spent a ton of time where I worked trying to optimize how to do it without disrupting the pace of the broadcast. All of that has added up to some of the issues you identified.

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Good info. Thanks for the insider perspective.

Does the fact that the team partially owns the network help or hurt the cash situation, because the RSN fee has fewer people with their spoons in the pot and RSN fees keep increasing?

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Not necessarily specific to Houston, but the math on the RSN business has always been pretty simple:

Of the overall spend, staff and production/operations cost are about 15-20% of total expense. Rights fees to the teams are 80-85% of overall expense.

On the revenue side, ad sales is about 15-20% of all revenue and cable/satellite affiliate fees are 80-85% of all revenue. The cable/satellite ecosystem has shrunk by 50% since 2012 and continues to shrink. Profitable businesses have become unprofitable. The only way to get to break even is for the teams to reduce their rights fees (which they obviously don't want to do) as the other parts of the business are run extremely efficiently.

So to answer your question, it helps keep the business afloat because teams that own their networks can reduce their rights fees to keep the net afloat. If they didn't do that they would be in bankruptcy court like the old Fox RSNs with significant uncertainty about how their games would get produced and distributed.

I'll take it

hands of stone in RF

ruled a double?

Let's see if we can take advantage of another dropped ball gift

official scorer likes Caratini

should be careful with Tucker here

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Let's see if we can take advantage of another dropped ball gift

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Nope

Ah yes

The ole stranded leadoff double

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Ah yes

The ole stranded leadoff double

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there was one out....

Really hope we don't waste a rare Hunter brown ace performance

HB sawing folks off

Jeez bad Bregman is back

Pena Popper!

JP!

Crawford shot by Pena

review possibly coming

Pena popper (tentatively)!

JALAPENA

Crawford special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POPPER!

Stay hot Pena.

Wow. Overturned nvm

uh-oh, might be a double

Maybe it hit the yellow line and bounced back in play.

Nice job by the fans backing away from the ball

That's a double.

Looked good here. That blows