Premier League on the BBC: How to turn off fake crowd noise as broadcaster offers viewers option to watch without simulated chants Broadcasters have had to come up with solutions to the lack of atmosphere at games played behind closed doorsA record number of viewers could tune in to watch the Premier League on Saturday night and the majority will be exposed to fake crowd noise for the first time when Bournemouth take on Crystal Palace. One of the stipulations of the Premier League being allowed to resume while the rest of the country remains under a level of lockdown is that all games will be played behind closed doors with a maximum of 300 essential staff inside the stadium. Broadcasters have already had to deal with the eerie atmospheric conditions in the Bundesliga, where host TV companies began to experiment with fake crowd noise. “We are working with the Premier League and EA Sports to create bespoke crowd noise for individual matches that we are covering,” head of BT Sport Simon Green told i earlier this month. “We’ve learned a little bit from what we put to air last weekend, and we’ve learned how our public and our viewers feel about it.”

Source: BBC June 20, 2020 18:29 UTC