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April 13, 2006
Harding Communication Department produces games for NBA TV
SEARCY - Not every college student has the chance to have his voice broadcast on international satellite television, but now basketball fans worldwide have been able to hear the play-by-play announcing of Harding University student Derek Glover.
Glover, a sophomore political science major from Searcy, was one of several Harding mass communication students who produced three telecasts of Arkansas Rimrockers basketball games for NBA TV early this month. One telecast aired April 5 on the satellite network.
Bob Ritchie, operations manager for Harding's TV-16, coordinated the show, along with Taylor Carr, assistant professor of communication, and Dr. Dutch Hoggatt, associate professor of communication. Ritchie says the network contacted Harding about the opportunity because it is one of the few universities in the area that has the equipment for a remote production. A dozen students helped with production, doing everything from camera operation to graphic inserts to announcing.
Ritchie says the experience gave students the opportunity to produce a professional product to be seen worldwide and to understand all the work that goes into such a large-scale production. Students worked with a producer for Fox Sports Net and covered games between the Rimrockers and other teams from the NBA Development League. "This is a high level of basketball - people who are trying to be picked up by NBA teams," he says.
Glover has been involved with television production since he was in high school. "It is something that I enjoy and have a passion for," he says. He says a lot of work goes into a sports production. As an announcer, he did background research on players and had to practice pronouncing difficult names, such as Rimrockers player Martynas Andriuskevicius. "What comes out on the TV looks a lot more simple and clean cut than what goes into it," he says.
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