Ask Me Anything: I work at the Worldwide Leader

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One of the universal things in all sports is that whoever is broadcasting your game (aside from your home team announcers) is godawful, biased, and has an absolute trash production. Doesn't matter if it's baseball, football, hockey, or the Masters tournament. It's the reason why sites like Awful Announcing do such good business.

 

I've been a member of this site for a little over 10 years now. I've also been an employee at ESPN for nearly 12 years. My job involves making sure that the integrity of the broadcast is secure (for example, making sure you're seeing the game you're supposed to see, not black on the air or a completely different show - yes that's happened before). My job duties are two-fold: the aforementioned quality control, and also as a liaison between my department and the folks at the stadium. My job is to count them back from our commercial breaks so they know when to start talking again, and to adjust things on the fly. If their satellite feed suddenly goes down, it's on me to find an alternative.

 

All of this to say, I know that there a lot of questions about the business, about the broadcasts, and about the biases. There are certain things that I cannot share due to information security policies, but I wanted to give an opportunity to answer any questions you may have... because yes, Joe Buck is legitimately a good guy.