The St. Louis Blues will produce their road games from a control room at home. Would you rather direct from base or be in the building?

20:49Let's say you're doing, you know, only a couple of productions a year to have to spend $1,400 US on a software license might not be viable, but to just rent it for one or two shows a year is pretty reasonable, actually. I think more people should offer that as an option. All right, let's move on to the next question, Courtney. Coming in from down in Texas way, Austin, Texas,

21:13Paul Valhus says the St. Louis Blues will produce their road games from a control room at home. Would you rather direct from base or be in the building? He has a link to a story about that. I don't know. Does that matter, Chris, to you, where you are physically? So I don't produce NHL hockey games, So like, I can't like speak to personal experience, like in my experience, like if I don't have to go somewhere, that's fantastic. Right. Like, great. On the other hand, like for a lot of this stuff I do, like where I'm also the engineer, like I kind of need to be on site.

21:50um this is this is an interesting thing and it's like when you click on the link and actually read the story it's it's really not about where they're directing from it's it's about the blues uh taking over from their the failed rsns and that's a whole thing in the industry where where regional sports networks are are collapsing and the seattle kraken um got out of their rsn before it collapsed and

22:20and said, all right, they saw the writing on the wall. They said, the RSNs are going to collapse. We're going to bring our whole thing into house. And so they have their own production. They're producing their own games and doing their own distribution. The Blues were with Ballet Sports, who was bought by somebody. And then they collapsed anyways, right? And so they lost their RSN.

22:41So they lost the regional sports network that was covering their games. And so they kind of had to scramble and say, all right, well, we just need to do it ourselves. And that's kind of what this article is about. And when you have to do something yourself, when you go from someone else doing it to bringing it in-house to having it to do yourself, a lot of times you're probably looking at doing it cheaper.

23:07cheaper and in this particular case you know one of the reasons the rsn's collapse is because it's expensive to do this and a lot of the rsn's and um you know i'm everyone knows i'm a huge buffalo fan and so like the sabers have msg as their rsn and i was just kind of looking this up and and so they travel so their director goes to all the games there's a truck they rent a truck at

23:30each away game and that's all that's all money and and the blues are probably looking at that and saying, do we need to really send a truck somewhere else? Can we just do all this remotely? And it looks like they can. And I mean, NBC does the Olympics via Remy. So sure, why not? I think it's just a real interesting time in sports

23:57for when you're looking at all these, like not lower level, but these professional sports that aren't the NFL. basically, that have to deal with RSNs and how are their games getting out and how are people viewing their games and where historically it's been other people coming in to do their games and more and more it's becoming, well, we're just going to do it ourselves. And it's an interesting

24:23time. Go ahead, Courtney. Yeah, yeah. Chris mentioned it. You know, NBC has moved a lot of their sports headquarters, broadcast headquarters to Stanford, Connecticut, that big broadcast facility they have there, and everything is done remotely. I think there's more and more of this. Of course, they do employ a lot of times some people at the game itself to do color or coverage of the crowd, et cetera, interviews on the field,

24:50things like that, that feed the main. But the director and all the switchers and the sound mixers and everybody else is sort of being cooped up in a truck. So, you know, you have more standard creature comforts if you're in a facility like the NBC facility, a streaming facility. Because, you know, hey, the coffee pops in the same place and the snacks are the same and they bring in catering and it won't be different.