The 2012 Paralympic Games

I think its because its being used in conjunction with the 2012 font which is also a rather odd font it brings it down somewhat.

I couldn't find any mention in the thread, but out of interest which company is actually providing the Olympic outside broadcast and coverage for channel 4?

Sunset and Vine and IMG are co-producing the coverage, I believe. Not sure if they then hire in technical facilities from OB companies or if they have a fleet of their own?

Presumably, Sunset+Vine and IMG will be producing some of the stuff for OBS on behalf of Channel 4. It wouldn't surprise me if it's quite a lot of the stuff with there not being as many countries giving these games a high level of coverage.

The EPG for C4 HD still suggests they will break for Deal or No Deal (and the rest)...wonder when it'll be updated.

OBS will almost certainly be prodiucing the coverage, as wirh the Olympics, I don't have confirmation of this though.

OBS are host broadcaster, but it's surely made up of a lot of broadcasters that had no involvement of the Olympics and I'd imagine Sunset+Vine and IMG are having to produce a lot of the coverage on behalf of Channel 4 for OBS.

OBS contract other broadcasters to produce coverage for them on some sports at the Summer Games, however, they also produce some of the sports in-house using freelancers. No idea what the arrangement for the Paralympics is though.

Would Channel 4 need two production companies involved if they weren't having to produce some of the coverage for OBS, though?

Could be that the two companies both have production talent C4 want to use - and it's worth not underestimating how much output is being produced. Even if you are only doing presentation (both in-studio and on-site, plus highlights etc.) and not producing coverage, it is still a pretty huge amount of output sustained for a long period of time.

I don't know how many in-house staff IMG and Sunset+Vine have - but I do know some freelance staff who worked on the Olympics for the BBC are also working on the Paras for either IMG or Sunset+Vine.

There could be other splits too, like the studio pres being one company, while running the streams is the other. Or one's has done all the work we've seen so far, and any VTs we see during the games but only has a minor role in the actual coverage, while the other is only being brought in for the live stuff.

Surely OBS could contract IMG or Sunset + Vine directly to produce content if they thought it was needed.