11-08-2019, 03:08 PM
https://nypost.com/2019/11/07/no-end-in-...-tv-trend/
MSG ‘noise’ accusations grow louder
Hey, if CBS’ Masters telecasts were caught piping in the sounds of chirping birds that don’t fly any further south for the winter than Duluth …
When several readers claimed at the start of this season that MSG Network is adding canned audio excitement to Knicks home games, I ignored it as too low and desperate for even a content-managed Jim Dolan property.
But then reader Tom Barrett had me review Sunday’s Knicks home telecast, in which boos could be heard as the Knicks were clobbered by the Kings, yet included the suspiciously improbable sounds of a multitude in celebration of the Knicks.
The Knicks were being blown out when successful Knick field-goal shots and missed Sacramento free throws caused an eruption, the sound of a large dam break.
In one case this sound was accompanied by the wide view of hundreds of occupied seats showing no one clearly demonstrating anything beyond logically reserved non-responses from their illogically expensive reserved seats.
These sudden loud noises muffled the courtside words spoken by Mike Breen and Clyde Frazier. But neither was given to raise his voice to match or surpass such a crowd reaction.
And as reader Barrett noted, no such impaired sound of MSG courtside announcers are heard during road games in response to home teams’ successes. Those crowd sounds sound real.
However, MSG Network on Thursday flatly denied that its telecasts include any artificial audio additives.
Knicks are a 1st class organization.
MSG ‘noise’ accusations grow louder
Hey, if CBS’ Masters telecasts were caught piping in the sounds of chirping birds that don’t fly any further south for the winter than Duluth …
When several readers claimed at the start of this season that MSG Network is adding canned audio excitement to Knicks home games, I ignored it as too low and desperate for even a content-managed Jim Dolan property.
But then reader Tom Barrett had me review Sunday’s Knicks home telecast, in which boos could be heard as the Knicks were clobbered by the Kings, yet included the suspiciously improbable sounds of a multitude in celebration of the Knicks.
The Knicks were being blown out when successful Knick field-goal shots and missed Sacramento free throws caused an eruption, the sound of a large dam break.
In one case this sound was accompanied by the wide view of hundreds of occupied seats showing no one clearly demonstrating anything beyond logically reserved non-responses from their illogically expensive reserved seats.
These sudden loud noises muffled the courtside words spoken by Mike Breen and Clyde Frazier. But neither was given to raise his voice to match or surpass such a crowd reaction.
And as reader Barrett noted, no such impaired sound of MSG courtside announcers are heard during road games in response to home teams’ successes. Those crowd sounds sound real.
However, MSG Network on Thursday flatly denied that its telecasts include any artificial audio additives.
Knicks are a 1st class organization.