New York, NY--Starting next week, all Skycams used during NFL games will be controlled with computers from a remote location. The move is a cost-cutting measure by the league, who, apparently, is not immune to the financial crisis. Skycam is a human-operated television camera suspended by cables above NFL fields that provide home viewers with birds-eye-views of colliding players. "You think it's easy telling someone whose job is as unique as a Skycam operator that they are no longer needed?" said the camera's inventor Hank Galeo. "It takes a special person to film a high speed game while hanging from cables and moving at 35 mph, 80 feet above the field ... and not get motion sickness." One cameraman was shocked at being laid off: "What am I going to do now? I can't work a sideline camera after working Skycam. That sounds awful."
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Bad economy reaching NFL, all Skycam cameramen to be let go
New York, NY--Starting next week, all Skycams used during NFL games will be controlled with computers from a remote location. The move is a cost-cutting measure by the league, who, apparently, is not immune to the financial crisis. Skycam is a human-operated television camera suspended by cables above NFL fields that provide home viewers with birds-eye-views of colliding players. "You think it's easy telling someone whose job is as unique as a Skycam operator that they are no longer needed?" said the camera's inventor Hank Galeo. "It takes a special person to film a high speed game while hanging from cables and moving at 35 mph, 80 feet above the field ... and not get motion sickness." One cameraman was shocked at being laid off: "What am I going to do now? I can't work a sideline camera after working Skycam. That sounds awful."
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