Wait, Southwest Airlines Was Around In 1948?
AwfulAnnouncing —
Here's an update and video in regards to the WGN telecast which is rewinding back to 1948 today. It's been a fun couple of innings with only a few camera angles and everyone seems to be playing along. Bob Brenly has already complained about the heat in his "burlap suit" and they even have a typewriter that someone has been hammering away on. Here's the opening of the telecast and the first pitch.... ...
Cubs & WGN Turn Back The Clock
RCS Sidelines —
Today WGN turned back the clock all the way to 1948. The players wore throwback jerseys, the sponsors had their old school looks, and they even used the same camera angles as they did back then. And let me tell you, thank God for technology. I liked the idea and I even liked watching how baseball used to be, but watching it, you realize it is SO much better now. I'm not the biggest fan of baseball either, but there is no way I could watch a full game without close-ups or the center field camera. There is no way to tell if it's a ball or a strike. It's basically like sitting in the upper deck the whole game. Oh yeah, and no ...
Jim Edmonds HR: Len Kasper Does His Best Jack Brickhouse Impersonation [MLB Walk-Off]
FanIQ Blog —
The Chicago Cubs and WGN honored 60 years of televised baseball Thursday afternoon with a throwback telecast complete with simplistic graphics and black and white coverage.
For just the first two innings, the telecast was provided nearly the same way it would have been many years ago - but probably without Southwest Airlines ads (video below) - void of multiple angles and what truly through me for a loop, a lack of instant replay. You forget how much that's a part of televised sport. I wanted to know whether that pitch caught the corner, ...
The Cubs Kick It Old School
Foul Balls —
I had no idea that the Cubs were planning on doing the old-school 1948 style broadcast on Thursday, and since I was watching the White Sox lose to the Tigers at the time, before I'd heard about it they'd switched back over to good ol' high definition and color. Still, I'll admit that the presentation was kind of cool, though I don't know that I could have watched an entire game with just the three camera angles. Had they not invented a camera that could work behind home plate in 1948? Was the gravity so close to the earth so strong back then that it would tear the camera apart?
