Falcon Baseball Gets Broadcasted

By John Albea

Students and professors of Mass Communication
with the TV truck

Everyone is knows about Montevallo sports, but what everyone might not know is what goes on behind the scenes. Once a year, Kermit A. Johnson Field becomes surrounded by mysterious cables. This mess wires will lead you to students manning camera at the periphery of the field, and even further to a crowded truck behind the bleachers where the real magic happens.

The technological hullabaloo centers around the Mass Communication Department's seasonal Baseball online live stream. For the majority of the season, the games are shot by professionals, but for this once a year game, the game is produced by entirely by students. From cameramen, to directors, to play-by-play announcers, the whole show is run by students.

Kermit A. Johnson Field

Mass Comm professor Jerald Cofield says that these multi-camera Baseball sportscasts take about ten hours of preparation. Ordinarily, students of Mass Communication oversee the production of Basketball home game live streams in the Trustmark Arena, where a control room is more permanently set up.

The Mass Communication Department occasionally hosts other non-sports related online broadcasts, such as the Life Raft Debate. Whatever the setting is, there is an energy to these live productions, which is just one more thing that makes the Falcons as great as they are.