Terry Brady has been responsible for the production operations for many high caliber events in his career, including the Olympics, World Championship events and many more sports. In this episode we talk about how he started in the tv sports business, what it takes to manage the production operations, from the smallest to the largest events in the world.
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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More Episodes: Dave Raymond, The Original Phillie Phanatic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emA-0xQ4jws&t=1427s
Andrew Irvine, MLB The Show Producer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwM9CGHRz_0&t=3s
Marc Rowley, Inventor of Pylon Cam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5cMC3JkdA&t=9s
Claudia Trejos - Boxing Broadcaster & Hall of Famer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntXcgXajOw&t=10s