Communication delay between Bullard & Eschenfelder

i'd think today's technology would allow matt do the Bull's Eye thing without "now pause, now let him do this, now pause again, now let him do that"....

 

Yet NASA scientists were able to communicate with the Astronauts on the moon almost instantly...in 1969

Spoiler

 

Is Bull on the moon or something? Funny, I guess the Rockets can't afford the latest technology.

 

The real question is "why is Kevin Eschenfelder so bad?"

He either can't read a teleprompter to save his life, or he is just really terrible at making up his own sentences on the fly.

 

Are they doing that out of the Houston Studios nowadays? I know that for a while, they were producing most of their FSN Southwest programming from the Dallas Studio (Even some of the "Houston" stuff). The Truck producing the actual game is returning the On-air Program to Bullard's IFB. There will be a delay for him to hear it in his ear due to the natural satellite time delays. The truck receives eschenfelder's questions VIA satelite or Cable TV and then feeds the program to Bullards ear. Or they might be receiving the signal VIA cell phone or Satelitte phone and are feeding that to Bullards ear. This is fairly normal with "Live Shots" from the studio to a live remote. If eschenfelder were in the same venue as the truck, then you wouldn't have a delay because program would be fed straight into the Bullards IFB through the audio board & wouldn't hit the airwaves first. If you watch most broadcast, there is a delay between a Studio and a Remote somewhere on location. Also, keep in mind that you can't compare the budget/equipment of a National Network News with the local News/sports channels etc. CNN will be much better equipped to handle live shots (they have to with the much larger distances needed to cover) than FSN or Channel 13.

It seems that when I did work at FSN in Dallas, they rarely used a teleprompter. I Know we NEVER used it on High School Xtra Live back when Randy McIlvoy & Craig Way hosted. I know we never used it on Dallas Cowboys Weekly and I'm fairly certain it was never used on The Southwest Sports Report or Sports on Sunday (I didn't work those 2 shows very often)

 

Think instant messaging. It shouldnt be too much to write a small chat program that would take what kevin says in Dallas, using voice recognition software relay that to typing, then send it live over the internet to a monitor in front of bullard, or even then have it read to matt in the earbud. The information would be there just as Kevin says it, im sure matt could have most of it read and ready to go with a reply before the signal is sent to him thru satelite.