l r Friday, Movember 22 ? 1985/The Battalion/Page 13 TANK MCNAMARA® by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds Z, tme K&e> ewrs operative UAe> JOMPEC? BACK "TO RU96»A ME SLlPPEPAWAY FROM Ml3 REP-FACEP ClA'KJUE'&EMAlP* WMlLE TMEV ^EPE WATamiO& TMC ATIAWTA FALCONS - BUFFALO BlU-S (3AM6. Ag football games keep KAMU-1V personnel busy jce rin ’• (cum depth, or leadership, j h quality peo-1 c-Reinach (No. Ill Sivslinger (No. 1])| ).ui-Mercer (No. lil ille-Taylor (No.23).| t tall tournamentbl 1985 and Kent saill the upconiiii|| •out ear our tortiwill^ Kent said. "We'vt’l aec ause of our senior imo Alkio and aoth ijuality p avers. Aggie lineup f( vely set with Alkioit es position and St Tne Nos. 3-7 spoti| - Mark Smith, Dec 1 Vos, Dean GoldfiWF :h. Kent said, the No. H be Alkio-Vos, GoUj id Smith-Simmons. f arn By TOM TAGLIABUE Reporter When the final seconds tick off of the clock at a Texas A&M football game, most people will call it a night and go home. But for several em ployees ofKAMU-TV (Channel 15), the game’s end means their job is just beginning. KAMU-TV, the local public tele vision station (PBS), produces the Jackie Sherrill Show, a highlight and interview program. The snow is sent via satellite early Sunday morning to 13 Texas television stations, includ ing Home Sports Entertainment and the San Antonio Spons Channel. The show is picked up by SPN, * the Satellite Programming Network, ^ which distributes the show to 175 ca ble companies nationwide. Mel Chastain, KAMU-TV general manager, is the executive producer of the Jackie Sherrill Show, as well as three other football-oriented pro ductions. Chastain s crew ranges from eight to 18 workers, depending on whether A&M is being televised by a major network. Rodney Zent, KAMU-TV station manager, is the video tape editor for the Sherrill chow. He said the pro gram taker, ft ox eight to 10 hours to edit before being rent out by satel lite. ''Some of the editing vee do during tne ganre. iXitt said in particular, after the first quarter, I edit those highlights and keep just about a quarter ahead. That way, when the game is over, I have about a quarter left to do.” Zent said the crew finishes the Sherrill show about 6 or 7 a.m. Sun day morning. KAMU-TV also produces another highlight show called Sunday Night Football, hosted, produced and edi ted by A&M senior Rusty Roberts. Roberts said he puts in about 25 hours a week on the one hour show, most of which is spent in production. Sunday Night Football was orig- nally a re-telecast of an entire A&M football game, but the show took on a new look this season as just an hour long highlights show. Roberts said he works with the KAMU-TV production crew as a chyron (graphics) operator during the game, as well as taking notes on key plays in the game and picking out particular shots for his show. Roberts, a former sportscaster for 15 News, said he normally comes in Sunday morning after the game to edit his show. He said it takes about six hours to edit and produce Sun day Night Football by himself. Chastain said Sunday Night Foot ball changed format this season be cause there was already a glut of televised football. “There is so much football on from Thursday through Saturday night and then repeats on a lot of ihc- cable net-woks, plus all of the proie<- sionai football on Sunday, Cnastain said We really felt that, by Sunday night, there was such a glut of tele vised toot ball that we w ere really try ing to strike a balance between peo ple who love to watch the Aggies play. “We found from research that a lot of the viewers are people who go to the games. They want to go home and see it again. So we thought a one hour version still provides the excite ment of the main scoring drives and the key things that happen during the game. We simply cut out the parts of the game that don’t directly affect the outcome of the game.” In addition to Sunday Night Foot ball and the Sherrill show, Chastain and his crew also will put together a specially configured nighlignt tape for the A&M Association of Former Students. “They want to see all of the plays, none of the huddles and time-outs and (they want to see) all of the (Ag gie) Bancl,” Chastain said. The newest football production for KAMU-TV is the Video Year book, a behind-the-scenes diary of the 1985 Aggie football team from the beginning of two-a-day workouts to the end of the season. The video tape, which sells for $49.95, was cre ated jointly by KAMU-TV and the A&m Athletic Department. “It’s a lot different than just a bunch of highlights,” Chastain said. “We pretty much chase the team around with a camera and video tape recorder and have been since the season started — clear back to two-a-days, Coach Sherrill’s first speeches to the new incoming fresh men, the walk-ons and the varsity plavers. ‘‘We’ve been over in Cain Hall with them. Plus we go to the locker room with them before, during and after the game. We’re the only folks that are in there when he (Sherrill) is speaking to his players. So, we’ve got ail of Coach SherriH’s speeches on vi deo tape — some of them make it to the coaches’ show, some of them we re saving for the video yearbook. So. it oaghi: to be pretty good.” Alan Jones. A&M’.v assistant ath letic director foi operations and pro- motions, said the initial response to the Video Yearbook was promising. Jones said 25 to 30 tapes have been sold already. He said. the depart ment already has an ad for the tape during the Sherrill show and plans to use mail-outs so people can order the tape. Jones, who works with the Sherrill show, said the program reaches all over the country, which is good for the department. Jones saief Sherrill wants his show, which costs roughly $250,000 a year to produce, to be in formative. Brazos Valley residents can see the Sherrill show on Bryan’s KBTX- TV (Ch. 3) and Houston’s KHTV- TV (Ch. 39) Sundays at 10 p.m. Sun day Night Football appears exclu sively on KAMU-TV Sunday at 8 p.m. 776-2895 and authentic diy service, ncern Beautiful Roses Roses are Red, Pink & yellow, too! 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