Not sure why there's a lot of media buzz around the Amazon Tennis announcement today, we knew about it months ago here. Nothing new to add to the information we had previously too.
The Olympic Channel (produced by NBC Sports) in US aired The London Marathon. It appears they mainly used the World feed with the BBC Sport insert graphics. However the BBC Sport graphics were in miles and had the tagheur time logo pop up. Were the BBC graphics in miles or this an alternate feed? NBC Sports used full screen graphics when I guess the BBC feed went full screen or when the radio bikes (I never seen a camera man stand up on the back of the bike in the US) lost signal.
The broadcast was aired at 7PM ET so 12AM UK time and they curated the different races down to 3 hours.
Didn't watch it but I would expect the BBC graphics to be in miles.
We generally use miles for long distances, our road signs have distances in miles.
Yes, although I noticed Nick Bryant assumed Canadians use miles for road speeds and distances when reporting on the Toronto incident. An eye witness estimated, quote ‘70 or 80 clicks’ as the speed of the van. He meant km/hr, but Nick assumed mph.
Canada uses km for road speeds and distance ( I was caught out myself by that while planning a road trip from distances printed on paper maps of Canada)
From what I saw they flipped between the two on their timing graphics. As dbvoy says though for something like the marathon the BBC would use miles as their main checkpoints.