“It’s our very first telecast of a PBA game and we only want the best for the PBA televiewers,” said Jude Turcuato, the Solar Sports vice president for sales and marketing.
“We’re familiarizing our men with our new equipment. They’d been trained in the US and they’re not stopping in practice to avoid or minimize errors,” Turcuato added.
Solar Sports invested no less than P20 million for new equipment in a bold attempt to reach the standards of the NBA. A typical game will now be covered by six to seven brand new Sony D55 digital cameras and two ENG Panasonic P2s.
A Harris G-series inscriber was bought with the capability of showing seven layers of graphics on the screen like what is used in the NBA, CNN, Fox Sports and ESPN. An SNG flypack dish was also acquired to replace transmission by microwave in beaming the games from the venue to the Solar base in Antipolo using satellite technology.
The equipment will have its initial use as Solar Sports makes a mock coverage of some of the games in the PBA pre-season tourney.
“Actually, we’ve tested it and it’s really okay. But there’s still room for improvement. Ayaw namin na kakapa-kapa pa rin ang mga tao namin by the time we have our first coverage,” said Turcuato.
The anchors, analysts, courtside reporters and interviewers, meanwhile, undergo a series of orientations. Turcuato said the philosophy of “mass follows class” would be adopted in bringing the coverage to a level where market segments converge at the top.
The anchors are Mico Halili, Vitto Lazatin, Ed Picson, Paolo Trillo and Turcuato. The analysts are Norman Black, Danny Francisco, Quinito Henson, Vince Hizon and Jason Webb. The courtside reporters are Richard del Rosario, Patricia Bermudez-Hizon, Eric Reyes, Anthony Suntay and Dominic Uy. The interviewers are Peaches Aberin, Reema Chanco, Lia Cruz, Cheska Litton and Marga Vargas.
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