Passed RNAS Culdrose earlier, significant media tented village assembled at the Northern End of the runway (Helston end) for the reception of the flame, At least 5 Sat Uplinks in place including three supported by large scale SIS uplink vehicles. Seems that deliberately the events are being held away from the control complex to avoid radar breakthrough.
Some reports today that the plane will circle the RNAS Station if fine to enable people who are being kept away (roads are being closed) to see it from the ground, whether true we'll find out tomorrow.
Thought I saw the Search and Rescue helicopter in the air that's being used to transport the flame on Sat to Lands' End for the start of the relay. Looks as if the RN Markings have been 'masked' for the purpose.
Since you've all been wondering, about the different colour schemes of this logo, I've now seen a copy of the branding guidelines, which explain all:
The pink BBC blocks version (seen above) is for Cultural Olympiad / London 2012 festival usage.
the orange (flame coloured?) version with gold Olympic rings is for the torch relay. There's also a version with the London 2012 logo, and 'presenting partner of the Olympic Torch Relay' text in the 2012 Headline font.
the yellow BBC blocks with 5-colour Olympic rings is for sport coverage
and the grey blocks with 5-colour rings is a generic version for "when not covering the other specified events and content."
And not a BBC Sport face amongst them, though Sophie and Jane did seem genuinely excited earlier on the One/News Channel, unlike Chris Eakin yesterday.
And not a BBC Sport face amongst them, though Sophie and Jane did seem genuinely excited earlier on the One/News Channel, unlike Chris Eakin yesterday.
You'd have thought it would have been more sensible to have Matt Baker on tonight's One Show, as he's actually involved with the television coverage of the games.
Remember, London and the BBC are both building the olympics up to be about more than the sport. Much of the coverage will be led by news presenters rather than sports ones, and that is part of this change of slant.
I guess a lot of it is down to the sports presenters generally (or even without exception) being freelancers rather than on salary, unlike the news team - so bringing in the big sport names to host the key events costs the BBC money. I do feel for the sports presenters - of course they'll all get a role at the games and that is the main thing - but I'd have thought for the likes of John Inverdale, Hazel Irvine and Claire Balding the Olympic games is the absolute pinacle of their profession and they'd want to be involved in broadcasting it as much as possible.
For the news guys although it's definitely a - or the - highlight of the year it isn't what they've been working towards all their career. The same goes for Gary Lineker too.
Anyway, back to presentation and see they had a special front cap for the One Show tonight, then a very dodgy version of the One Show titles. I was rather underwhelmed by the news variant yesterday too.
And not a BBC Sport face amongst them, though Sophie and Jane did seem genuinely excited earlier on the One/News Channel, unlike Chris Eakin yesterday.
As was Alex Jones - she was SO excited when the plane was taxiing past the studio window!
I don't think an event like this really needs a BBC Sport presenter to be involved. There is no sporting competition taking place - so their skills would have been wasted. Far better to have presenters more suited to covering a general event (both in and out of vision) - which both Jane and Sophie are eminently qualified to do. If anything not having a sport presenter probably added to the sense of occasion - to the feeling 'this is more than sport'.
Sure - there are sports presenters (Clare Balding obviously springs to mind, as does Jake Humphrey) who could do a perfectly good job - with a suitable fluency and lightness of touch - but I didn't feel it was out of place.
I thought Sophie did a sterling job - particularly as she had to both commentate AND MC the event (as well as do stuff for the One O'Clock and Six O'Clock News and The One Show)
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I haven't seen this discussed yet, but on BBC FOUR tonight, between the standard 'Library' ident and 'Punk Britannia', there was a brief two second BBC Olympic Broadcaster sting that I've not yet seen elsewhere. The design is familiar from the promos already shown.
