Behind the Digital Scenes: A Play-by-Play of YES Network's Game-Day Digital Operations
11/09/2017
Monday, September 11, 2017 - 2:54 pm
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A decade ago, YES Network decreed that its digital team would be embedded in its linear-production operation. Today, that strategy continues to pay off as the YES Network digital and studio-production teams in Stamford, CT, work side by side to create content that can service both the linear telecast and YES's website and social-media channels. When SVG visited Stamford last month, the digital team provided a behind-the-scenes look at how YES Network serves up digital content before, during, and after a regular-season Yankees night game.
YES Network Coordinating Producer Jared Boshnack has embraced the role of digital within his linear-production team's operation.
Meet the Team: Digital and Studio Crews Unite
Here are some of the key players from YES Network's digital-media team (overseen by Michael Spirito, head of business development and digital media, Fox Sports Networks), who work with the studio-production crew (headed by Coordinating Producer Jared Boshnack) to create fresh digital content during every game:
Kevin Sullivan, director, digital media
AJ Herrmann, coordinator, digital media content
Matthew Stucko, web video producer
Lou DiPietro, content editor
Glenn Giangrande, senior writer
5 - 6 p.m.: Pregame Prep and Joe Girardi's Pregame Press Conference
Sullivan: Between 5 and 6, we are really just prepping for the game and making sure we're getting Girardi's quotes from his pregame press conference. We get the entire press conference [transmitted to us] in-house and probably get about five minutes of it on the pregame show. In addition to that, AJ or Lou will watch the entire press conference and write up a quick pregame story on his quotes. We also stream the entire press conference, which we have been doing quite a while.
That leads us into Yankees Batting Practice Today, which begins on [the linear network at 6 p.m.]. We will also take content from that and post it [on the website and social].
6:30 p.m.: New York Yankees Pregame Show Begins
Sullivan: AJ cuts video clips using Snappy TV throughout the pregame show. If Jack and Bob [Lorenz, YES Studio Anchor] are talking about tonight's starter and his numbers against the Blue Jays, he will cut 30 seconds of that and put that on Twitter and Facebook, as well as, potentially, Instagram if he thinks it's going to be engagement-worthy. AJ does that through the entire pregame show.
Digital Media Content Coordinator AJ Herrmann oversees the clipping and posting of highlights throughout each Yankees game.
7 p.m.: First Pitch and First-Inning Highlight
Sullivan: In the first inning, we [have the rights] to post one highlight. AJ is in charge of picking that highlight, cutting it with Snappy TV posting it, and driving viewers then to the television broadcast or to Fox Sports Go to watch the game.
We have a checklist of all the things we have to do for a highlight tweet: is there a sponsor tonight, where does the sponsor go, is it a pregame sponsor, do we have a postgame quote of the night sponsor? First inning highlight is one of them.
3rd - 8th Inning: Live Tweeting With a Focus on Engagement
Sullivan: Once you get out of the second inning, from there on to the ninth inning, we are going to push a lot of fun content. Throughout the game, AJ will do a series of live tweeting with a focus on engagement-based tweets. We're interactive, and we're tweeting. There's not a lot of sponsorship or rules during that period, so we try to really engage our audience and think outside the box.
What we don't do is say, The Yankees are up 5-4 in the third inning and then Yankees score; now they're up 6-4. That is not going to drive any kind of engagement. In the early days, around 2010, we were tweeting out scores and tweeting out basic stats. I think that served its purpose at that point in time, but we saw pretty quickly, once the analytics and tool set around posting became more readily available, that it wasn't the best strategy. You could see we just weren't driving any level of engagement with that content. Moreover, people could see it in a dozen different places. They can get that from us, but they're not coming to us for that. So now we make an effort to get engagement through fun, unique content and interaction. We are looking for retweets and shares.
4th Inning: Experimenting on Facebook Live With YES In-Game Live
Sullivan: We are trying something tonight [Aug. 9] on Facebook Live that we have done only a couple times [and are] calling YES In-Game Live. It's not something we plan on doing all the time, but we want to keep pushing the envelope with Facebook Live and build on the success we've had with our production meeting [live streams].
Analyst Jack Curry (left) and Web Producer Matthew Stucko during a taping of YES In-Game Live on Facebook Live on Aug. 9
Our Web Producer and personality Matt Stucko is going to sit down with Bob Lorenz during the fourth inning and essentially talk about the game and have some fun with fans. We'll be asking fans to submit questions on Facebook for Bob, and we're hoping to have a little fun with it. They will, of course, talk about the game but also music, movies, pop culture, and stuff Bob is interested in. I'll be producing it myself using our [Telestream] Wirecast system. And we also have a sponsor, Jaguar, which we're very excited about.
9th Inning: A Trio of Highlights To Close Out the Game
Sullivan: Once we get back to the ninth inning, we get back into posting some more highlights. We [have the rig
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