JIM WILLIAMS – MASN ready for Opening Day and beyond – The Wash. Examiner
In a column that reads like a MASN press release, we get details about broadcast plans for this season. There is some good news:
“We have a new high home camera location on level three of Nationals Park. That means the camera is about 150 feet lower and closer to the field so fans will have a better look at the game action,” Glass said. “We will also use X-Mo, a high-speed HD camera…”
Progress, yes.
Later Williams says this:
OK, I am ready for those fans out there that will simply call me an Angelos lover, but MASN is a quality regional sports network. As someone who has first-hand experience in building three of them from the ground up, I can tell you Glass, Cuddihy and their team are very well thought of in the industry. Both the Nationals and the Orioles have top talent in the booth and top-quality talent in the production trucks.
Okay, Angelos lover even if MASN is a top quality sports network, why wasn’t it from day 1? The coverage over the years has been poor and anti-Washington. I’m not about to give them a pat on the back because they started figuring it out in year 5.
By the way, hope for rain for more reasons than spoiling the Orioles Opening Day:
“We are producing every Nationals and Orioles game this year in high definition,” said Glass, MASN’s Executive Producer, Operations Director, on what they have done during the offseason. “That way if say the Orioles’ Opening Day game was rained out, then we can switch to the Nationals-Marlins game in HD.”
Whoopee, maybe next year all games can be shown in HD.
