Wednesday’s game was broadcast on ESPNU, and the network elected to have their two game announcers for this matchup — Eamon McAnaney and former Arizona basketball standout Corey Williams — broadcast the game remotely.
This is a practice ESPN will occasionally employ, primarily with college basketball games. A recent article on ESPN.com said just 2 percent of ESPN broadcasts occur with announcers not on site.
The article said “when remote broadcasters are used, camera and audio feeds are sent back to the announcers to their remote location, and those feeds become their eyes and ears.”
The reasoning?
Attribute it to savings, which “allows us to reinvest resources in our overall productions,” said Stephanie Druley, ESPN’s senior vice president of events and studio production.
Still, it was strange — especially given that Williams lives, you know, here.
