{"id":519511,"date":"2026-01-14T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:47:15","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-would-you-listen-to-an-mlb-broadcast-without-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519511\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Would you listen to an MLB broadcast without commentary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/05\/peacock-becomes-first-sports-streamer-with-full-dolby-audio-video-enhancements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal reported<\/a> on possible enhancement coming to sports broadcasts on the Peacock Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are plenty of enhancements coming down the pike, but this is the statement that caught the attention of most sports fans:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">[David Bohunek, NBCUniversal SVP of Global Video Engineering] shared a story from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/02\/21\/peacock-nfl-game-biggest-day-of-streaming-in-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Peacock\u2019s first exclusive NFL game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Peacock\u2019s first exclusive NFL game<\/a>\u00a0when, at halftime, executives from NBCUniversal and the league both called to share thoughts on the audio \u2014 one wanted the commentary a bit louder, the other wanted the crowd noise to be turned up for the sense of emotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWith AC-4 and the personalization of the audio, we can let the customers do what they prefer with a very simple control in our own UI,\u201d Bohunek said, \u201cand maybe let them turn off commentary completely if that\u2019s what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, here\u2019s tonight\u2019s question: If the Rockies were to have a broadcast on Peacock, how would you adjust the controls to provide you with the ultimate fan listening experience?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Please keep in mind our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/2020\/6\/3\/21278848\/purple-row-community-guidelines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines<\/a>\u00a0when you\u2019re commenting. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal reported on possible enhancement coming to sports broadcasts on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,68760,68761,68759,4,14457,68758,68762],"class_list":{"0":"post-519511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-david-bohunek","10":"tag-global-video-engineering","11":"tag-joe-lemire-of-sports-business-journal","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-nbcuniversal","14":"tag-peacock-network","15":"tag-sports-broadcasts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115892115661514689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}