Quote Originally Posted by walkeraviator View Post
To avoid satcom, they can do like NASCAR does. Each camera sends its signal to a relay mounted to the bottom of a hovering helicopter over the track.. That signal is sent to a production trailer and then sent out via satellite for you to view. Either way I think it costs more than Fishing sponsors are willing to pay.

Walker, you are comparing apples to oranges. The largest tracks Nascar runs on are 1 1/2 miles and that is in a circle. Do you realize how many helicpoters it would take to cover the Louisiana Delta?

Here is the way I would like to see the Classic handled. It is probably the most feasible way. First, keep in mind you are not going to see the actual fishing as it goes on live. The technology is there but the affordability of it is not. B.A.S.S. would lose money, a lot of money, trying to do it live. I would like to see a preview show an hour long, telling what has been going on out on the water, show a few clips of the leaders fishing and any other perinient info. Put it on an hour before the final day weigh in. Then show the final day weigh in or at least the super six weigh in live. This would only work on the final day. If any of you have been to the Classic you already know, but those who haven't I will tell you that the weigh in last for at least 2 hours. There is so much pomp and circumstance and then the emcee has to talk with each angler for a while before the fish are weighed and after. After a while you are just begging for them to get on with it.