Terry Brady - Broadcast Operations Consultant & Former Director of Operations, ESPN
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00:00 - Episode Introduction
01:45 - How Terry and I met working in the Dominican Baseball League for ESPN (with some pictures)
03:15 - Terry’s thoughts about Dominican Baseball
04:10 - Terry’s memory of visiting with Baseball HOF Pitcher Juan Marichal
05:55 - What an Operations Producer does
07:45 - How Ops Producers are able to save a show and what the preparation is to make sure a show goes off well
09:40 - How Terry got into the sports tv business
14:15 - One of Terry’s first events with ESPN was on the World Cup
14:55 - Terry’s reporting days dealing with sheep
16:40 - Why Terry chose operations instead of other jobs in television
18:50 - When an Operations Producer’s job begins once the network gets the rights to an event
22:12 - Most significant change in tv production from Terry’s perspective
23:55 - How each event dictates what goes into the operations
26:15 - The number of events Terry has worked on outside the U.S. and how tv is the same or different
28: 55 - Of the many high profile sports Terry’s worked on, which is his favorite
33:05 - What an Ops Producer does once the event starts
35:10 - Some notable people Terry has met
36:40 - Meeting the Phillie Phanatic mascot
37:55 - What goes into winning an Emmy from the operations side
39:35 - How the operations department prepares for the worst scenarios
43:55 - How operations teams work in all kinds of weather and need to have the right skills
46:45 - The difference between remote production operations and studio production operations
49:30 - What qualities are good for people to have when working in production operations
51:15 - What his favorite credential is from all of the events he’s worked on
52:45 - Wrap of episode
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