First of all thanks to Will for sending this in.
There’s an interesting event tomorrow night at the Museum of Moving Image in Astoria that your readers might like to know about. Bill Webb, longtime director of Mets TV broadcasts, and Curt Gowdy Jr. from SNY will be participating in a symposium called “The Art of Televised Baseball” at 7pm. It sounds like a rare opportunity to get the behind-the-scenes skinny on how a Mets broadcast comes to life. The Museum re-opened last week after a total renovation. It’s beautiful, and well worth a visit.
-Will
This sounds really interesting. When I was a kid I know that I would be there without a doubt. It blends two of my favorite things, The Mets and behind the scenes of television. Maybe I will go check it out tomorrow.
I would love to go if I didn’t have a previous engagement already.
I actually work as an engineer on the TV trucks that do the baseball games and I would love to hear about the way they did things way back when networks like NBC were using 20 cameras to cover the game.
Really has changed a lot since then. Now at most they use 6 or 8 Cameras and all of the replay is done via video server now that tape decks have gone by the wayside.
when i was a kid living near shea ,i remember when NBC would pull into the stadium at gate D and run the cables into the stadium from the 2 big semi trucks!!
the mets were very lucky to have the WOR t.v. control room inside shea stadium for the mets games.
cleon jones would go into the room and look at his at bats for from the game the day before.(he was given grief from time to time about not taking batting pratice.maybe he never said why)
the mets also had a reel to reel portable video tape recorder and camera called “video logic” it was the brain child of mets batting pratice picther
named tom fitzgerald. he would tape hitters in BP and help them with hitting.
if you are a real old school mets fan the home plate camera was rolled down the hall to be used for kiners korner studio,right next to the control room,after the 7th inning