[81alum]

While it is very irritating for one set of fans to listen to announcers who are clearly supporting the other team, I don't necessarily think it is bad to have announcers that are biased for the home team.   As a fan, when my "home" team is playing, I don't mind listening to announcers that are focused on my team.  Kevin Danna's call is an example of that. I get more local info & shared excitement that way.   I do understand that there will be times when I have to sit through another team's homers.  (Just look at how we view ESPN)

That is a fair point.  But a lot has to do with expectations. 

For example, when I listen to a radio broadcast of a sporting event I normally expect to be listening to an announcer who is sympathetic to my team and particularly knowledgeable about it.   That is how radio usually works--the same games being announced by two different announcers for the benefit of the two different sets of fans.  We had our Kevin Danno Danna and there was probably a different announcer for Colorado radio.

With TV I have a different expectation of neutrality.  It is rare for a sporting event to be broadcast on TV with two sets of announcers.  And so it is jarring when you encounter a radio-level of bias in a TV setting.  

The two broadcasters for the P12N of the Stanford Colorado game were Thad Anderson and Stephanie Hoff Hawk Freeman.  Anderson has a short bio on the P12N site but Freeman does not.  Anderson appears to be an experienced broadcaster with a long track record--nothing to suggest a Colorado bias.  I can't find out anything about Freeman.  Could she be a former Colorado player, the way Pac 12 uses Chiney and used to use Ros?  My perception of their home-bias could simply have come from the normal tendency to support the underdog and to support the home team--the same two factors that have been statistically proven to bias referees.  But they did seem to share a lot more information about Colorado than they did about Stanford, and it was that more than anything else that made me think they were local.

[81alum]

While it is very irritating for one set of fans to listen to announcers who are clearly supporting the other team, I don't necessarily think it is bad to have announcers that are biased for the home team.   As a fan, when my "home" team is playing, I don't mind listening to announcers that are focused on my team.  Kevin Danna's call is an example of that. I get more local info & shared excitement that way.   I do understand that there will be times when I have to sit through another team's homers.  (Just look at how we view ESPN)

That is a fair point.  But a lot has to do with expectations. 

For example, when I listen to a radio broadcast of a sporting event I normally expect to be listening to an announcer who is sympathetic to my team and particularly knowledgeable about it.   That is how radio usually works--the same games being announced by two different announcers for the benefit of the two different sets of fans.  We had our Kevin Danno Danna and there was probably a different announcer for Colorado radio.

With TV I have a different expectation of neutrality.  It is rare for a sporting event to be broadcast on TV with two sets of announcers.  And so it is jarring when you encounter a radio-level of bias in a TV setting.  

The two broadcasters for the P12N of the Stanford Colorado game were Thad Anderson and Stephanie Hoff Hawk Freeman.  Anderson has a short bio on the P12N site but Freeman does not.  Anderson appears to be an experienced broadcaster with a long track record--nothing to suggest a Colorado bias.  I can't find out anything about Freeman.  Could she be a former Colorado player, the way Pac 12 uses Chiney and used to use Ros?  My perception of their home-bias could simply have come from the normal tendency to support the underdog and to support the home team--the same two factors that have been statistically proven to bias referees.  But they did seem to share a lot more information about Colorado than they did about Stanford, and it was that more than anything else that made me think they were local.