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Show New park and whiz-bang broadcasts liven Pirate Play By Stephen English OTVData Features Syndicate The Pittsburgh Pirates boast a brand-spanking-ncw stadium this year, and it's a beauty. Fox Sports Net pitches in with a snazzy new broadcast that it hopes will keep fans interested by bringing the baseball action into their living rooms, so to speak. According to Paul Kosuth, executive ex-ecutive producer of Pirates baseball base-ball broadcasts on Fox Sports Net, the network will capitalize on the Bucs' move into PNC Park by introducing a whole new way to watch a ballgame beginning Monday, April 9, with the Pirates' home opener against the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Reds. " I was very fortunate. Over two years ago, when the Pirates realized real-ized they were going to build the ballpark, they got in touch with me," Kosuth says. "We looked at a couple of different dif-ferent ballparks and cniiqucd various var-ious ballparks' TV positions. We looked at a handful of new ballparks ball-parks to gel a feeling for what has been done and what could be done." The problem with cxkie-culter Three Rivers Stadium, Kosulh says, was that, as a dual-purpose facility, it had tans feeling as if they were far from the action in Pirates games. 'The command, (he charge (for PNC Park) was to make it intimate," inti-mate," Kosuth continues. "People can leel like they're close to the field " Situated on the shore of the Allegheny Al-legheny River, PNC Park is indeed in-deed an intimate park, where the highest seat is just 88 feet from the playing field. However, by the basics of baseball, base-ball, the park may not be a good fit lor this year's squad. With the dcadenter field wall a paltry 399 leet In mi home plate. PNC favors power. On the other hand. St. Uhjis' slugger Mark McGwire is surely already dreaming of blasting blast-ing homers into the Allegheny. Kosuth is a TV guy. though, not a hasebali guy, and he focused on making the magic of PNC translate trans-late to television broadcasts. "I worked with the Pirates as to where we could put cameras in different locations," Kosuth says. "We'll have the opportunity to get the hand-held camera, move from outside the ballpark to a picnic area, down by the river, potentially potential-ly to a plaza level, to concourse shops, to a private club area high behind home plate. Those are some of the areas I was particularly particu-larly interested in, so that when we do pre- and post game shows, we can really feature the ballpark and show it off." Pirates games on Fox Sports Net - which is airing a record 120 Continued on page 7 4 Wednesday, April 4, 2001 Hill. Johnson Schmutz. 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