Aug 15, 2008 11:47 PM
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(Updated Aug 16, 2008 12:00 AM)
Why is this coming out freaky? On the review panel it looks ok.
DD Sports Olympic coverage is rubbish. Far too frequently live
coverage of events is interrupted by
studio talking heads. This
evening their studio linkman introduced some Colonel as an expert in
athletics.
Maybe he is. Maybe he’s just an expert in some aspect of warfare. Either way,
the linkman
then skimmed over athletics to ask the said'expert' about the boxing and
such.(Does he think
boxing is a track or a field event?) Whatever this Colonel’s area of expertise is, he certainly did not
know
much about TV broadcasting, because he addressed all his replies to his
interlocutor, not the
camera. The net result was that viewers were treated to several
minutes of some side-faced
mumbling, when my guess is that like me people tuned in to watch some. er, yes, some sports.
That is not the worst example I could give. On the first day
of these games I watched the mens road race cycling event. I watched for hours – well, it is a 245 km event. With just 12 km to go coverage gave way to adverts, thence to talking heads. Finally, one talking head
announced that Sanchez of Spain had won the race in a thrilling finish. I
persisted viewing wishing to see this despite the dreadful spoiler. Coverage finally resumed,
but was again terminated before the end of the event which is something
nobody watching DD Sports ever had a chance to see.
Brilliant. Who do they employ as studio editors? Is it babies?
DD Sports is a sports channel. We know that because it's got "Sports" in its name. Sports coverage should
therefore be its specialist subject. Some joke.
