John Madden urges NBC's Sunday Night Football producer to avoid using fake crowd noise
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Sunday Night Football executive producer Fred Gaudelli told The Athletic the NFL broadcasting legend advised him against using fake crowd noise. “He said, ‘When I first left the coaching profession and went to broadcasting, there was something about it that I just felt was missing and I couldn’t really put my finger on it,'” said Gaudelli. “He said, ‘Then I realized that I wasn’t hearing the sound that I had grown accustomed to hearing — as a player and as a coach. I never coached from the box, I coached from the field.’ He said to me, ‘Fred, you’re going to hear things that even you have never heard, so I’d be really trying to figure out how to best capture those sounds, and present them to the audience and not worry as much about artificial sound.'”
TOPICS: John Madden, NBC, Sunday Night Football, Fred Gaudelli, Coronavirus, NFL
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