Coach and Player Interviews Audio (1 Viewer)

[Artifactual]

It doesn't matter where the Saints conduct Team interviews from they all have a common problem. The questions being asked are either hard to hear or can't be heard at all. The people there can hear them but the recorded audio suffers.

It would seem to be a cheap investment for the team to place an overhead boom mic in the room so that the reporters questions are able to be heard clearly by the listening audience. After all, the point of having these interviews is to share information with the listening audience which not only includes team fans but outside media as well.

One would think that the media members asking the questions (and getting paid to do so) would want to be heard by the listening audience as well. So if anyone in the media reads this, please pass this suggestion on to team representatives that have a say in the press interviews.

Can You Hear Me?

 

[Andrus]

It doesn't matter where the Saints conduct Team interviews from they all have a common problem. The questions being asked are either hard to hear or can't be heard at all. The people there can hear them but the recorded audio suffers.

It would seem to be a cheap investment for the team to place an overhead boom mic in the room so that the reporters questions are able to be heard clearly by the listening audience. After all, the point of having these interviews is to share information with the listening audience which not only includes team fans but outside media as well.

One would think that the media members asking the questions (and getting paid to do so) would want to be heard by the listening audience as well. So if anyone in the media reads this, please pass this suggestion on to team representatives that have a say in the press interviews.

Can You Hear Me?

I have to say, that I have had that same thought many times. I didn't think of the the solution that you proposed of using a boom, which does seem viable, but even then it would be difficult. It's been a good while since I attended so things may have changed, but the problem was that the pressers were dynamic in that they were at times held in different areas. They simply moved the backdrop to wherever the presser was being held.

The Media was not situated in an organized grouping like if there were designated seating, but instead were either scattered about around the room, or area, or actually standing while crowded around whomever was answering the questions. Still... I would like to see something happen toward making the press questions heard.

 

[Artifactual]

I started this thread about 2 weeks ago and got only 1 reply which was from Andrus. There is a similar thread today without a subject in the thread title that questions the same subject.

Not being able to hear the questions asked by reporters to the coaches and players during interviews is frustrating to fans. This should also be frustrating to the reporters asking the questions. Though their voices can be heard in the room while live, any broadcast of the interviews leaves their questions unheard and the questioner irrelevant.

In my original post I suggested an overhead boom microphone could be used. A member suggested in the similar thread that ceiling mics could be installed as that is common technology now being used in conference rooms.

If more people don't complain about this then they won't likely do anything about it. This forum should be leading the way in making this concern known so that someone with authority to fix the problem will. The NFL certainly will when New Orleans hosts the SuperBowl in 2025. Why should the Saints organization operate their pressers as if the questions don't matter?

Mods please merge this and the similar thread on this subject.