The quality of the stream is fantastic vs broadcast tv, but yeah- I’m not real happy in general with their choices for announcers. Most don’t have any history of the teams they are talking about and I’m really missing the hometown announcers we had before.
There’s just a very generic feel to the majority of the announcers. Not a fan.
The quality of the stream is fantastic vs broadcast tv, but yeah- I’m not real happy in general with their choices for announcers. Most don’t have any history of the teams they are talking about and I’m really missing the hometown announcers we had before.
There’s just a very generic feel to the majority of the announcers. Not a fan.
If they'd expand the radio simulcast option to include both broadcast teams, I'd be more OK with it. The Timbers radio guys aren't great, but at least they're our local version of not great, so they're much more listenable than almost any of the Apple TV idiots.
I mean, I kinda get the "generic feel" thing - Apple has deprioritized local knowledge in favor of a "consistent experience" across games, which means every game is bland and uninteresting. The broadcasters, especially in a week with Wednesday games, don't have a whole lot of prep time to do anything other than surface-level research about teams they're broadcasting, so you get a whole lot of banal generalities and not much else. It's disappointing for sure.
The quality of the stream is fantastic vs broadcast tv, but yeah- I’m not real happy in general with their choices for announcers. Most don’t have any history of the teams they are talking about and I’m really missing the hometown announcers we had before.
There’s just a very generic feel to the majority of the announcers. Not a fan.
If they'd expand the radio simulcast option to include both broadcast teams, I'd be more OK with it. The Timbers radio guys aren't great, but at least they're our local version of not great, so they're much more listenable than almost any of the Apple TV idiots.
I mean, I kinda get the "generic feel" thing - Apple has deprioritized local knowledge in favor of a "consistent experience" across games, which means every game is bland and uninteresting. The broadcasters, especially in a week with Wednesday games, don't have a whole lot of prep time to do anything other than surface-level research about teams they're broadcasting, so you get a whole lot of banal generalities and not much else. It's disappointing for sure.