{"id":32952,"date":"2011-10-19T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2011-10-19T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:58:16","slug":"world-series-fox-sports-southwest-upholds-commitment-to-rangers-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2011\/10\/19\/world-series-fox-sports-southwest-upholds-commitment-to-rangers-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series: FS Southwest Tells Rangers’ Series Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing to the San Francisco Giants in 2010, the Texas Rangers return to the Fall Classic for their second-straight shot at winning the club\u2019s first World Championship.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fox Sports Southwest, the Rangers\u2019 television home during the regular season, will continue to follow the American League champions throughout the Series, with a focus on great storytelling. For the first time, the World Series will be broadcast on the parent company of both teams\u2019 regional sports networks; Fox Sports Midwest airs St. Louis Cardinals\u2019 regular-season contests.<\/p>\n

For the World Series, Fox Sports Southwest will add a 30-minute pregame show and continue to televise a one-hour live postgame show.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the ALDS and the ALCS, we streamed the pregame show only,\u201d said Mike Anastassiou, senior executive producer, Fox Sports Southwest. \u201cThe postgame shows that we\u2019ve been doing have been on the linear channel since the beginning of our postseason coverage. For the World Series, we\u2019re going to put the pregame on the linear channel as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Rangers travel to St. Louis, they will be joined by a Fox Sports Southwest producer, Website correspondent, talent, and photographer. The remote crew will integrate live reports from Busch Stadium with the Fox Sports Southwest studio in Irving, TX, via uplink truck.<\/p>\n

At home, the network will use four local loops already in place between the Irving studios and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, sending individual camera feeds from the ballpark to the studio and cutting the show in the Irving control room.<\/p>\n

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Mark McLemore and John Rhadigan take postgame show on location.<\/p><\/div>\n

Former Rangers third baseman and current Double A Frisco RoughRiders manager Steve Buechele will join former Rangers infielder Mark McLemore, John Rhadigan, Dana Larson, Emily Jones, Ric Renner, and FoxSportsSouthwest.com Rangers correspondent Anthony Andro for Fox Sports Southwest pre- and post-game coverage.<\/p>\n

The linear-channel coverage will give fans the Rangers\u2019 point of view, providing game highlights and player interviews and broadcasting Major League Baseball\u2019s satellite feed of pre- and post-game press conferences.<\/p>\n

The network plans to ramp up Rangers coverage on the digital side as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be tweeting, posting on Facebook, engaging our viewers in the conversation,\u201d Anastassiou says of the network\u2019s commitment to social media. \u201cWe\u2019ll answer tweets with our panelists from the studio and take some relevant comments and crawl those along the bottom of the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, FoxSportsSouthwest.com will feature video of postgame press conferences, player interviews, and announcers commentary, and Andro\u2019s daily reports and updates will be posted on the site. Because of the network\u2019s college-football commitments, Game 3\u2019s pregame show on Saturday Oct. 22 will exclusively stream online.<\/p>\n

Throughout the Series, Fox Sports Southwest plans to continue delivering the same comprehensive coverage that Rangers fans expect, with the same opens, rejoins, bumps, and closes deployed all season modified slightly to include a World Series logo.<\/p>\n

For the network, there was no need to drastically alter the broadcast philosophy if the regular-season formula worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re producing everything in HD,\u201d says Anastassiou, \u201cand we\u2019re just going to rely on our storytelling ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the Rangers win their first World Series in franchise history, Fox Sports Southwest will have one great story to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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