Chris Farrow - Coordinating Producer, Ross Mobile Productions & Former CP, ESPN College Basketball

Episode description

• 1:30 - Where his love of sports comes from?
• 2:05 - Did he think he wanted to work in sports?
• 2:45 - How his interest in basketball translate into him working in the sports industry.
• 3:28 - How he got into the sports the sports industry and later into sports television.
• 6:00 - Was it easy working as a font coordinator (graphics coordinator), What the next steps in his career were.
• 7:48 - Going to the NCAA to work in broadcast services.
• 8:55 - What his responsibilities at the NCAA were.
• 11:50 - What the relationship between the sports tv networks and the NCAA was like when he was with the NCAA.
• 13:20 - How he moved on from the NCAA and got to ESPN.
• 17:05 - The logistical complexities in scheduling personnel while at ESPN Regional Television.
• 18:15 - How he managed approximately 1,000 games per season.
• 20:50 - What it means to him to have helped ESPN grow with college basketball.
• 22:00 - How he has the ability to remember details.
• 23:10 - How he keeps a list of all the music concerts he has been to in his life.
• 24:30 - How Sammy Hagar and Van Halen are his favorite band.
• 26:00 - How Chris was introduced to me to produce a college basketball game in Mexico.
• 27:20 - Chris shares how the college basketball season is put together.
• 28:15 - How he decides on putting a production crew together.
• 30:20 - How he provides feedback to the production personnel.
• 32:35 - What his outlook/philosophy on finding and working with announcers.
• 34:30 - How he coaches announcers with his production company.
• 36:20 - What he believes makes a good play-by-play announcer and the qualities they need to have.
• 37:40 - Diversity is a big part of looking for announcers.
• 38:25 - What he looks for in an analyst.
• 40:15 - As a talent/announcer evaluator, did he go after analysts or did they come to him?
• 42:30 - How he looked for reporters and how it was a challenge to fit them into college basketball.
• 45:15 - What Ross Mobile Productions does as a game packager and how many networks are using packagers.
• 46:50 - What REMI’s and At-Home Productions are.
• 50:40 - What the biggest or most memorable event he’s covered.
• 53:05 - What the craziest event he was ever a part of.
• 56:55 - What he would like sports fans to know about the tv broadcast industry.
• 58:00 - If he were to do any thing else besides sports broadcasting.
• 59:10 - How young announcers or existing announcers reach out to get advice through chrisfarrowproductions.com.