Listening to a Hometown Broadcast While Watching a Game
Have you ever tired of listening to national tv broadcasters that can’t pronounce your favorite player’s name correctly? Did you grow up listening to your hometown radio broadcaster? If you answered yes to either of these questions, check out our latest video. You’ll get step by step instructions on where to find your team’s broadcast as well as how you can get that broadcast audio synchronized to what you’re seeing on your tv. Finally, you’ll get some tips on pushing the broadcast audio to your stereo or sound bar.
To sync your team's broadcast audio to the tv, you need to know 3 things.
Where to find the broadcast
How to get the audio synched to your tv
How to get the audio running through your stereo
Where to find the broadcast
I use TuneIn to listen to game broadcasts. You'll see they have broadcasts for multiple sports leagues. In college football, they have a ton of teams. This is mainly due to a deal with IMG sports. Search for your team on TuneIn. Once you have your team, you can create a free account with TuneIn and save your team's station as a favorite.
Note: some sports (like the NFL) require a subscription.
One more thing about TuneIn is that they also have an app. This allows you to stream broadcasts through your phone or tablet as well, if you prefer.
How to get the audio synched to your tv
In my experience, the internet stream of the team's broadcast is running at a delay compared to the tv broadcast. Because of this, you can pause your tv until the stream catches up. The trick is to find something you can use as a key. In football, the kickoff is a great thing to work off of. On your tv, hit the pause button just as the ball is kicked off. Then, wait for the audio stream to catch up. In most stadiums there is a cheer going on that hits a crescendo just as the ball is kicked. That's when you un-pause. In the even that isn't happening, you can just un-pause when the announcer says the ball has been kicked off. You should be pretty close. If you feel the audio isn't quite in synch enough, you can always pause again or fast forward to get this just right.
How to get the audio running through your stereo
The easiest way is to run a cable from the headphone jack of your computer, tablet, or phone to your stereo power unit. One thing to consider is how your power unit is set up. You need to have the power unit set to the input where the stream connected and still be able to have the game showing on your tv. If you are passing the video signal through your power unit via HDMI this could be problematic. Check your power unit setup to make sure you can get this to work.
If you don't want to run a wire, you could push the audio via bluetooth or to another device (such as an Apple Airport Express) that is then wired to your power unit.
If you have a sound bar, this should be pretty easy to do. You could most likely connect via bluetooth, or use a wired connection in the event your sound bar doesn't have bluetooth.
Wrap Up
Now you have all the tools you need to synch your team’s audio to a tv broadcast. Leave a comment below and let me know if this worked for you.
