User:Wesleycadams/sandbox

The term homercast and the hashtag #homercast was originally coined by Wesley Charles Adams of Bath Maine in 2017. The term refers to watching sporting events where the local broadcasters, or "homers" as they are sometimes called, are calling the plays. This differs from a typical broadcast where regional or national broadcasters are encouraged to call the game without bias for one team or another.

Many University of Georgia football fans, Wes included, were raised listening to their beloved Larry Munson on the radio, while watching the game on tv with the volume turned down. As tv, and later all broadcast media, became satellite and then internet based, it became almost impossible to sync the audio with the video, essentially killing the ability to watch a game while listening to your favorite broadcaster without either knowing the outcome of the play via early audio or video.

The desire to be able to listen a #homercast was reborn when Wes began to edit video clips from the national network with audio clips from the University of Georgia web site. Wes has started a kickstarter page to fund the #homercast project. The #homercast project allows the user to take an audio stream and a video stream and add a delay to one of them producing a synchronized audio and video broadcast.