Stevedude530
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- Dec 21, 2005
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This is a simple thread, what would you do if you ran OLN, or at least the NHL department of OLN. Here's my take.
-Hire a West Coast Announcer, and a West Coast Analyst. My Broadcast team (For Games) would be:
Play By Play
#1 Mike Emrick
#2 Bob Miller (LA Kings Announcers, the voice of the "Mighty Ducks" movies)
#3 Joe Beninati
#4 Sam Rosen
#5 Chris Cuthbert
Color
#1 John Davidson
#2 Neil Smith
#3 Brian Engblom
#4 Darren Pang (I was looking through people, and I finally just said dammit I'll go with Panger)
#5 Denis Potvin
-Studio
As you can see, I would move Neil Smith out of the studio and into a more prominent analysts role.
Host - John Buccigross, Fill-In: Bob Harwood
Analysts - Rotating Panel of: Pierre McGuire, PJ Stock, Keith Jones, Bob Mackenzie, Ray Ferraro, and any of the 5 Color Men.
- I would do a 30 Minute Pregame and Postgame show. See what happened when they scheduled one last week? It was the day Larry Robinson was fired, and the olympic team was named, and all hell broke loose.
Schedule
-I would switch the games to Wednesdays and Thursdays, because that's when the most big games happen.
-However, there would be a 30 Minute "NHL2Night" style show hosted by said analysts from Monday-Saturday Nights at 11 & 2 AM (After the early games and a wrap-up of the whole night)
-I would air NHL Cool Shots on non game nights
-A 30 Minute Player Interview Show Hosted By Bob Harwood or John Buccigross every week.
-Some NHL Network Programming.
-More Doubleheaders, an Olympic Preview Show, the Entire All-Star Weekend.
-Secure a 2nd OLN channel so up to 4 Playoff games each night could air nationally.
All right, and finally, I would change the name to CSN, since Comcast owns OLN. Or CSN National.
What would you do?
-Hire a West Coast Announcer, and a West Coast Analyst. My Broadcast team (For Games) would be:
Play By Play
#1 Mike Emrick
#2 Bob Miller (LA Kings Announcers, the voice of the "Mighty Ducks" movies)
#3 Joe Beninati
#4 Sam Rosen
#5 Chris Cuthbert
Color
#1 John Davidson
#2 Neil Smith
#3 Brian Engblom
#4 Darren Pang (I was looking through people, and I finally just said dammit I'll go with Panger)
#5 Denis Potvin
-Studio
As you can see, I would move Neil Smith out of the studio and into a more prominent analysts role.
Host - John Buccigross, Fill-In: Bob Harwood
Analysts - Rotating Panel of: Pierre McGuire, PJ Stock, Keith Jones, Bob Mackenzie, Ray Ferraro, and any of the 5 Color Men.
- I would do a 30 Minute Pregame and Postgame show. See what happened when they scheduled one last week? It was the day Larry Robinson was fired, and the olympic team was named, and all hell broke loose.
Schedule
-I would switch the games to Wednesdays and Thursdays, because that's when the most big games happen.
-However, there would be a 30 Minute "NHL2Night" style show hosted by said analysts from Monday-Saturday Nights at 11 & 2 AM (After the early games and a wrap-up of the whole night)
-I would air NHL Cool Shots on non game nights
-A 30 Minute Player Interview Show Hosted By Bob Harwood or John Buccigross every week.
-Some NHL Network Programming.
-More Doubleheaders, an Olympic Preview Show, the Entire All-Star Weekend.
-Secure a 2nd OLN channel so up to 4 Playoff games each night could air nationally.
All right, and finally, I would change the name to CSN, since Comcast owns OLN. Or CSN National.
What would you do?