Another Cut for Blazers Broadcasting

I HAVE TO LOOK AT MIKE BARRET AND PRETEND HE HAS BLONDE HAIR AND BOOBS DURING THE POST GAME INTERVIEW?!?!?!

I feel bad anytime someone loses a source of income, but as far as broadcasts go, its really irrelevant.

Not televising preseason games is one thing, but this I will not stand for. Well, I’ll stand for it, but I’d rather look at Rebecca Haarlow than Barret.

Although she started off a little rocky, she’s been doing a fine job since. She gets good info during the game and good interviews after.

I just don’t get the organizations loyalty to him. His ‘color’ commentary always leaves me shaking my head and saying “huh?”

zzzz

i am tired of live play being interrupted by the interviews. who gives a shhh.? atleast when the interview is going on let the main game cam be on on the screen completely

executives are looking to cut back in some areas when it comes to spending, this is a smart way to do it.

We don’t really need a sideline reporter anyways, its so much predictable junk.

“Oh, we’re halfway there.”

she won’t be wearing the other teams colors broadcasting a Blazer game.

Hopefully soon she will learn to stay out of camera range sitting on the table when MB and Rice are on the air post game.

I’m sure male fans didn’t find that as inappropriate as female fans did last night.

in this down economy! Did you guys see all of those empty stadiums during the last road trip? The NBA is certainly in lean times.

I hope she is able to find other income.

It’s not like this is Newshour with Jim Lehrer or Senate hearings – it’s an NBA broadcast. An entertainment spectacle. She’s part of this spectacle and as far as sideline reporters go I find her good-humored, cute, and fairly genuine.

On second thought, maybe we’ll get more airtime with Akamian…

to TV sideline reporters.

I’m surprised Sophia hasn’t blown a gasket yet. I’d have to side with her on that one and normally i think she over reacts.

It sucks that she lost her job.
I’ve never felt she or the position she held added anything extra. Normally i’m “shut up and show me the game.”
I’d cut her altogether if i needed to save costs. I don’t see her position bringing in extra revenue or financially justifying her presence.

Lastly, this is a public forum. Representatives from the Blazers and possibly Rebbecca read this and what you say represents yourself. This is something I remind myself about and thought I’d remind you all about that as well.

Rebecca is great fun on the sidelines. I’ll actually miss her input and professional questions with players and coaches. But I see how the recession affects teams and how they look at profit, etc etc. I’m more than happy to stare at her for home games only. She indeed is very easy on the eyes.

Seriously though, that sucks. I’d really thought she’d gotten drastically better each year. I wish she’d do more track stuff since that is something that she’s more knowledgeable about.

I mean the sideline stuff and color commentary isn’t really for the hardcore Blazer fans, and anything that we would find useful probably would go over the average viewers head. She’s there for the more casual fans, and I thought she was doing a better job connecting the coach and the players to the semi-average fan.

I mean 90% of reporters ask the same ridiculous questions after the game as she does during the game. Not sure why there’s so much hate.

And yes this is kind of a reversal from my previous statements on this topic, but I mean you can’t realistically expect real basketball analysis from the broadcast crew, they’re paid by the Blazers org. They can’t point out flaws or ask critical questions, which are the only interesting parts of any interview. Their job is to do almost literally the exact opposite of that.

She has a job to make the Blazers look good, explain what is going through the players heads, and connect the coach and players with the fan base, and I think she does a good job of it.

but, whatever. No big dealie-o.

I know how the sting of under-employment feels. However, I honestly don’t see the benefit of sideline reporters in general. In addition, I agree with the poster above who mentioned that she tends to ramble when asking her questions and not let the interviewee speak as much as I would like. All in all, not a happy story, but not a shock either.

…she is going to be moving on to bigger and better things, sooner rather than later. I thought that since last year. This announcement seems to fit that interpretation.

they drop the exclusive Comcast contract and sell the broadcast rights to all of the local broadcasters. Are you going to tell me that DishNet and DirecTV wouldn’t want a piece of that action?

As for Rebecca Harlow…she’s managed to do the previously impossible for me…

Make me miss Anne Schatz

I preferred Luftman. The “tell them what they won” schtick was silly, but I like silly. And Luftman and Holton had a better repoire. Akamian’s voice and style are a bit grating. To each their own.

…the Comcast fiasco: completely inexcusable in every conceivable way.

I have Comcast, and still feel that way.

Why do the NBA, and its teams, make it so very hard to love them?

something happened behind the scenes. Had to.

Harvey blabbers like my drunk uncle after beating me at Techmo Bowl 3 times in a row. You had Bo Jackson—-how could you possibly lose?!?! No concept…

I would like for Kenny Vance to be cut from the entire damn city. I’m so sick of his jerk head commentary and grassy hilled mumblings.

The huge (HUGER) audience those deals would bring on-board would surely need a female touch in order to survive. The apocalypse is dead ahead.

The day they fire her and replace her with someone like Tony Luftman, you’ll all turn on your DVR’s and play back old Haarlow interviews and wish she was back again. Tell em what they won!?!?!?!?!

…correct me if I’m wrong, (and I’m sure you all will) but if I read the post correctly Haarlow hasn’t lost her job, her job has just been cut in half. She is still going to be available at home games.

  I think the cutback is unfortunate. Regardless of what you think about Haarlow, broadcast teams television and radio I think need time to develop chemistry. I was getting use to seeing and hearing Haarlow on television broadcasts. I think she projects a confident, “friend on the sideline” personna.

  Sideline reporter is sort of a thankless job anyway. You are tasked with trying to interview before, during and after a game, and on the fly. So players and coaches are either focusing on the upcoming game, focused on the game, or exhausted and tired after a win or a loss…hard to spin gold out of that….

  I think she does a good job and more importantly she was becoming a “personality” with which Blazer fans were beoming more and more familiar.

  I kind of feel if you are building a broadcast team it should be all or nothing….you can’t have a player that only plays in home games.

the players are sick of answering.