Chris Farrow - Coordinating Producer, Ross Mobile Productions & Former CP, ESPN College Basketball
- Author
- chris farrow, don cardona
- Published
- Thu 30 Jan 2020
- Episode Link
- https://sportsinthemaking.simplecast.com/episodes/chris-farrow-coordinating-producer-X5DbruRI
- 1:30 - Where his love of sports comes from?
- 2:05 - Did he think he wanted to work in sports?
- 2:45 - How his interest in basketball translate into him working in the sports industry.
- 3:28 - How he got into the sports the sports industry and later into sports television.
- 6:00 - Was it easy working as a font coordinator (graphics coordinator), What the next steps in his career were.
- 7:48 - Going to the NCAA to work in broadcast services.
- 8:55 - What his responsibilities at the NCAA were.
- 11:50 - What the relationship between the sports tv networks and the NCAA was like when he was with the NCAA.
- 13:20 - How he moved on from the NCAA and got to ESPN.
- 17:05 - The logistical complexities in scheduling personnel while at ESPN Regional Television.
- 18:15 - How he managed approximately 1,000 games per season.
- 20:50 - What it means to him to have helped ESPN grow with college basketball.
- 22:00 - How he has the ability to remember details.
- 23:10 - How he keeps a list of all the music concerts he has been to in his life.
- 24:30 - How Sammy Hagar and Van Halen are his favorite band.
- 26:00 - How Chris was introduced to me to produce a college basketball game in Mexico.
- 27:20 - Chris shares how the college basketball season is put together.
- 28:15 - How he decides on putting a production crew together.
- 30:20 - How he provides feedback to the production personnel.
- 32:35 - What his outlook/philosophy on finding and working with announcers.
- 34:30 - How he coaches announcers with his production company.
- 36:20 - What he believes makes a good play-by-play announcer and the qualities they need to have.
- 37:40 - Diversity is a big part of looking for announcers.
- 38:25 - What he looks for in an analyst.
- 40:15 - As a talent/announcer evaluator, did he go after analysts or did they come to him?
- 42:30 - How he looked for reporters and how it was a challenge to fit them into college basketball.
- 45:15 - What Ross Mobile Productions does as a game packager and how many networks are using packagers.
- 46:50 - What REMI’s and At-Home Productions are.
- 50:40 - What the biggest or most memorable event he’s covered.
- 53:05 - What the craziest event he was ever a part of.
- 56:55 - What he would like sports fans to know about the tv broadcast industry.
- 58:00 - If he were to do any thing else besides sports broadcasting.
- 59:10 - How young announcers or existing announcers reach out to get advice through chrisfarrowproductions.com.
