“Regardless of the medium, it’s about the ability to critically analyze the key pivotal moments that shift and change.” “Being there and being able to capture the environment and capture all the variables as much as possible, that’s what’s lost at the end of the day,” he said. Naraine said proper analysis can be more challenging without an on-site presence at games, along with the ability to read between the lines and survey body language. “Greg simply wants the work done across the Sportsnet network to speak for itself,” network spokesperson Meghann Cox said in an email. The Toronto-based telecom giant also owns the Blue Jays and Rogers Centre.Īn earlier request to speak with senior vice-president Greg Sansone about a variety of sport and broadcasting topics - including Blue Jays coverage - was also declined. Sportsnet is part of Rogers Sports & Media, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. It sacrifices the end experience for the consumer.” “We’ll stop sending people on the road, we’ll cut coverage here and there.
“The easiest thing to trim is travel,” said Mike Naraine, an assistant professor of sports management at Brock University. In an age of shrinking newsrooms and tighter budgets, many Canadian media outlets have cut down on road coverage of sports teams to varying degrees. Interview requests for primary play-by-play man Ben Wagner and Sportsnet brass were declined by the network. It wasn’t clear why Sportsnet decided to stick with remote broadcasts this season. The Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Angels are the only Major League Baseball teams that still use remote calls. Remote radio broadcasts were the norm in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to health concerns and travel restrictions. Toronto entered play Friday with a 77-63 record and a half-game lead on Texas for the final wild-card spot. The Blue Jays are in the thick of the playoff race in the American League. “We have not yet finalized our plans for the post-season.” “We will continue with our current approach for the regular season,” said Sportsnet’s senior communications manager Jason Jackson.
In 2023, radio broadcasters went back to a pandemic-style setup of calling road games while watching the action on a screen at Sportsnet’s studio in Toronto.
The network used remote coverage in 2022 before shifting back to traditional in-person road broadcasts for most of the second half of last season. The decision was confirmed by a Sportsnet spokesperson via email. In a change from last year, the Toronto Blue Jays’ radio rights-holder will not resume in-person broadcasts of road games as the team enters the playoff stretch drive.
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