PROOF OF CONCEPT

On December 13, 2008, the concept was tested by LA36, a local community TV station, during their telecast of the 2008 LA High School Football Championship Game. The recorded voice of San Pedro's linebacker, Robert Flanco was added to the Instant Replay immediately following his key tackle against the ball carrier from Narbonne High, the opposing team. Flanco's comments had been recorded, off camera, before the game. Once he approved what was written on an index card, it took Flanco just a couple of minutes to read and record---what he would be thinking---about how he planned to tackle the opposing star runner when he came charging at him through the middle of the line. Despite their limited experience and minimal equipment, LA36 was able to execute the methodology, flawlessly. Before this execution of a Talking Replay, no television procedure existed, whereby the production team of a live broadcast could instantly interject a player's comments into their broadcast, whereby the audio rendering could immediately be linked to the related visual of an Instant Replay being aired, so that the athlete's personal comments could enlighten, or perhaps even correct the game's storyline being presented by the announcing team's third-person approach. The LA36 crew reported that it all was done so swiftly, and with such little trouble in cueing up the audio recording, that their play-by-play man and their director were both itching to do more. The Talking Replay had specifically tapped into the player's insights, which heretofore have remained silent during a broadcast. Now the player was able to make a pre-recorded comment over the related action, which took place just seconds before. The next day, Tom Hoffarth of the Daily News wrote, "Talking Replay speaks for itself during L.A. City football title game." ...result of this entirely new way of letting an athlete have a voice in the telecast. The point being was to let viewers hear what's going on from the athletes themselves. So what you got here is hearing the athlete explain what he's trying to do rather than the booth analyst guessing at it."