Television broadcasts of Pac-12 games last season had the same issue: fuzzy reception on the TV screen. And it wasn’t your television.

Pac-12 insider John Canzano has reported that one game in particular, Washington State vs. Oregon on Nov. 13, had the minimum number of cameras (6), but that staff and contractors who worked that game told Canzano that the network sent a sub-standard production truck to the event, used a back-up spotter, and didn’t have a stage manager present.

It appeared to be cost-cutting by the network and wondered if the Pac-12 might want to bring the issue up in the next round of media rights negotiations. An ESPN spokesperson read my column last November and wrote to tell me, “The notion that we are doing Pac-12 games on the cheap is patently false.”

The issue, per an engineer who worked to solve it, was compatibility between the Sony-manufactured cameras being used to capture the action on the field and the non-Sony Camera Control Unit in the CSP Mobile Productions-owned truck.

It appears that ESPN has corrected the issue.

Bill Hofheimer, senior director of communications for ESPN, told Canzano on Wednesday morning, “We took a look at this in the offseason and will be using a new vendor this fall.”

Another source told Canzano that the trucks that will be used this season are now all wired with Sony CCU’s.

“Everything this year is more standard across the board, tech-wise,” the source said.