EA Sports will provide audio from actual games between the same teams at the specific venueGETTY IMAGES
NBC has "gone all-in" on the fake crowd noise strategy as it "prepares to bring back Premier League soccer on Wednesday," according to Neil Best of NEWSDAY. NBC Coordinating Producer Pierre Moossa admitted that he has "'done a complete 180' on the subject, in part after watching games from Germany’s Bundesliga that Fox began showing in mid-May." Best reports EA Sports will "provide audio taken from actual games played previously in the same stadium with the same opponents." Moossa said that EA "sampled 92 different such sounds and those will be used to match game situations." Best reports for "purists who frown upon such things, NBC will provide a feed without enhancement via streaming platforms." The studio portion of coverage will "represent a return for NBC of producing programming out of its Stamford, Connecticut, facilities." But NBC EPL play-by-play voice Arlo White and analysts Lee Dixon and Graeme Le Saux will "do games on-site at Premier League stadiums" (NEWSDAY, 6/12).
