Saturday, October 1, 2011

Does the NBA own a blimp or helicopter that pans a city and it's basketball arena?

Do you notice that at halftime and timeouts during NBA games they an arial view of the stadium. Does the NBA own a blimp or helicopter that pans the city and arena?|||Those shots are taken from a blimp... usually the Goodyear blimp, though other companies like Met Life also have blimps. Goodyear sends their blimps to major sporting events because it's good publicity... everybody notices and points to that big blimp floating in the sky. Goodyear lets the broadcast company put a camera on the blimp, and in return sometime during the game they'll show a panoramic view and the announcer will say something like "There's the panoramic Phoenix skyline, courtesy of the Goodyear blimp."|||not the NBA, TNT and ESPN pay a local helicopter to do it.|||Nah, it's usually the goodyear blimb or something like that. The broadcasters just contract it out.

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