Flood also noted that the broadcaster will look to pay tribute to the history of Major League Baseball on NBC with throwbacks to previously used graphic elements and even music. In terms of on-screen look, the Peacock games will feature a hybrid of the new graphics package and scorebug rolled out at the start of this season by the NBC Sports Regional Networks, with bits of new elements to incorporate big NBC and Peacock branding. “Give the team a challenge, and they will exceed expectations and always enhance the viewing experience.” “We have a great team of engineer and operations folks,” said Flood. It was also confirmed that NBC will deploy its own version of an on-field mirrorless camera on a stabilized gimbal shooting with a shallow–depth-of-field effect. Then, a yet-to-be-named NBC Sports staff director will take over.Īn NBC Sports representative estimates that each game will feature a minimum of eight hard cameras at traditional broadcast positions and two super-slow-mos. The plan is to have Moore, who has directed baseball games since 1980 and for major entities like MLB International and the YES Network, direct the first three or four games to get the package rolling. MLB Sunday Leadoff games will be produced in the truck by Matt Borzello and feature longtime baseball director John Moore in the director’s chair at the start.
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These will be fully onsite productions with a truck, full production/operations crews, and talent at the ballpark each week. But it was always a big part of what we were trying to do.” Again, I credit baseball: we came with this sort of crazy idea, and they said yes. We were looking for something that was unique, not just another game. We had been talking to baseball for a long time before we came to an agreement. “We asked, knowing that baseball had played morning games - on Patriots’ Day in Boston - and, to baseball’s credit, they were open to it. “We had seen success with Premier League in the late-morning time window,” said Rick Cordella, EVP/chief commercial officer, Peacock. On each of Peacock’s 18 Sundays, the streaming service will be the exclusive home of live MLB action until 1:30 p.m., when the remainder of the day’s schedule begins. The package also guarantees that, on each Sunday, no other MLB game will begin prior to 1:30 p.m.
The MLB Sunday Leadoff package brings live baseball to a much earlier window in the day than is traditional: start time for the first six Sunday games is 11:30 a.m. “Most importantly, we’re going to honor and celebrate the game of baseball, a game that means an awful lot to NBC Sports and the group of people here that are charged with telling the story of the game each week.”
“We’re going to have a lot of fun with it,” Sam Flood, executive producer/president, production, NBC Sports, said on a media call on Wednesday.
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It’s also the latest in a series of streaming-exclusive games, alongside Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, the YouTube Game of the Week, and a package of New York Yankees games on Amazon Prime. It’s the first of 18 consecutive Sundays when NBC will exclusively live-stream a Major League Baseball game on Peacock. That 7,873-day drought will end Sunday when the newest package of MLB games, MLB Sunday Leadoff, debuts on NBC and streams on Peacock with the Chicago White Sox vs. Bob Costas and the late Joe Morgan were on the call as the New York Yankees finished off the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium to secure a ticket in the Subway Series. It was Game 6 of the American League Championship Series in October 2000. It has been more than two decades since NBC Sports produced a Major League Baseball game.