Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In 2006, Springdale, Arkansas voters checked “yes” next to a handful of bond issues to create a new baseball stadium and minor league team for the city; eventually, the Wichita Wranglers were lured from Kansas to Arkansas to be Springdale’s new team. Needless to say, baseball was a big story for much of 2006, and this was just one of those stories, aired in September 2006, sitting down with the owner of the Kansas City Royals to discuss Springdale’s possible future as a “farm team” for the big leagues.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
In 2006, Springdale, Arkansas voters checked “yes” next to a handful of bond issues to create a new baseball stadium and minor league team for the city; eventually, the Wichita Wranglers were lured from Kansas to Arkansas to be Springdale’s new team. Needless to say, baseball was a big story for much of 2006, and this was just one of those stories, aired in September 2006, sitting down with the owner of the Kansas City Royals to discuss Springdale’s possible future as a “farm team” for the big leagues.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
