televised game preparation??
How do you prepare yourself & your partner(s) to work a televised game?
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In advance, nothing different. Shortly before the game -- find out who tells us when they are back from commercial, and see if there is any special timing near the beginning of the game or for halftime. |
I would prepare no different than I would working a game in a special location. All I care about is what delays or changes we will have to adjust to, like a special ceremony or if they want us to wait to put the ball back in play or even if we are using a microphone. Otherwise the game itself is the same.
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no advance notice
What about if you do not find out about it being televised until you arrive at the venue that night?
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One mistake we did make was not asking when the kickoff would be. We got the teams out for a 7:30 kick and had to wait until the pregame show was over. We finally got the ok at 7:37, way to long a wait. Also let coaches know TV timeouts are 2+ minutes long and keep the teams with the coaches until called Back. Have fun. |
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Know your Red Hat/TOC
As someone who officiates basketball and has worked as a Red Hat & TOC for football and basketball, I can tell you that establishing a rapport before the game with your conduit to the TV truck is huge.
A little pregame conversation and respect shown by a crew towards the red hat/TOC goes a long way... that person is the one who can totally throw off the flow of a game if he takes a timeout at the wrong time--treating that person like a member of the crew can pay big dividends! |
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In my college football games, we remind ourselves of the media timeouts - when they happen, their duration, the location of the media coordinator, and who the officials will be managing this. It takes all of 90 seconds time.
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Televised game afterthoughts
After 2 cancelled games (both teams folded), we finally had the televised game. As I was the scoreboard operator/timer for the game, I met with the TV Crew pregame to see about how timeouts would be handled, which was a red police strobe light flashing during media timeouts at about the 10:00 mark of each period. As soon as the clock got to that mark, I would buzz the horn to signal about the timeout. During the 1st period media timeout, the R & Linesmen tried jumping the gun by having a face-off before the expiration of the media timeout. As the face-off happened, I buzzed the horn as there was still about 10 seconds left in the timeout.
The intermissions happened without incident, as I explained to the on-ice officials that we'd have the full 18 minutes tick off the clock for the intermissions pre-game. The 2nd & 3rd period media timeouts happened without incident as the R waited to signal for face-off until the red light stopped flashing & I gave a thumbs up. |
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