Date: June 23, 2005

Presenter: Dave Ryan

Affiliation: ESPN - ESPN Website

The guest speaker for this meeting was Dave Ryan, field reporter for ESPN. Mr. Ryan has presented to the ITC twice previously with an engaging mix about the technology to broadcast the College World Series, the people behind the screen and highlights about the sporting event. ESPN brings a satellite uplink, control room, production facilities and over 100 people from across the country to cover this event. The role for our speaker is to interview the team on the field and the fans in the stand to cover the games. Mr. Ryan travels to Omaha for two weeks every year from upstate New York where he is an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University. This year Dave spoke to us after the CWS has started, which presented an interesting perspective on the event.