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It's almost all over . . . (November 2011)

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GE
thegeek Founding member
Steve Williams posted:
thegeek posted:
This morning's BBC One coverage ran on until 1315. They must have known about it reasonably far in advance: BBC Two ran a 45 minute edition of Bargain Hunt at 1230, instead of a 30 minute one.


Far enough to bill it in all the TV guides, yes.


Ah, fair point. I wasn't aware they'd billed it as such.
CF
CatsFast101
On the gymantisc final, Matt Baker has just said that a Japanese firm is Filming th event, ie the live coverage is been done by a japanese firm. Why is this? And it been really shocking that we keep seeing our GB gymnastics after others so it not cempletly live, as you cons near the crown booing or cheering as to how good the team were, it's not good for a home Olympics.
JO
Jon
ELM 2011 posted:
On the gymantisc final, Matt Baker has just said that a Japanese firm is Filming th event, ie the live coverage is been done by a japanese firm. Why is this? And it been really shocking that we keep seeing our GB gymnastics after others so it not cempletly live, as you cons near the crown booing or cheering as to how good the team were, it's not good for a home Olympics.

The OBS I believe is made of different broadcasters, so for example the BBC could cover the football and the boxing, NBC could cover the basketball.

I dare say, all broadcasters should have their neutral hats on when directing these events though.
BR
Brekkie
It is frustrating - they did show at least one extra British performance at the end of each rotation yesterday so whether those are filmed by the OBS or the BBC's own cameras I don't know - but you'd have thought the OBS would film all performances and the local director could opt to concentrate on their own athletes.

The gymnastics commentators (quite rightly) getting rather excited by what's going on in British gymnastics at the moment - Matt Baker commentating on a different event to what we were watching was quite funny last night.
DO
dosxuk
Brekkie posted:
It is frustrating - they did show at least one extra British performance at the end of each rotation yesterday so whether those are filmed by the OBS or the BBC's own cameras I don't know - but you'd have thought the OBS would film all performances and the local director could opt to concentrate on their own athletes.


According to the handy book here, in Athens there were 7 feeds for the Gymnastics sent to the rights holders, so I'd imagine there are at least that this time around too. However, if these are produced as 7 independant feeds, it can be quite difficult to cleanly swap between them.

Incidentally, it was NHK doing the production for that year too, so they can't have done too bad a job.
JO
Jon
dosxuk posted:

Incidentally, it was NHK doing the production for that year too, so they can't have done too bad a job.

Presumably they'd argue they were just concentrating on the higher ranked competitors.
CF
CatsFast101
Jon posted:
ELM 2011 posted:
On the gymantisc final, Matt Baker has just said that a Japanese firm is Filming th event, ie the live coverage is been done by a japanese firm. Why is this? And it been really shocking that we keep seeing our GB gymnastics after others so it not cempletly live, as you cons near the crown booing or cheering as to how good the team were, it's not good for a home Olympics.

The OBS I believe is made of different broadcasters, so for example the BBC could cover the football and the boxing, NBC could cover the basketball.

I dare say, all broadcasters should have their neutral hats on when directing these events though.


Don't get me wrong there not bias but I want them to be towards Britian! And were not favourites in the gymnastics, so we're not a lot of coverage. But Ahh I see!
NG
noggin Founding member
Jon posted:
ELM 2011 posted:
On the gymantisc final, Matt Baker has just said that a Japanese firm is Filming th event, ie the live coverage is been done by a japanese firm. Why is this? And it been really shocking that we keep seeing our GB gymnastics after others so it not cempletly live, as you cons near the crown booing or cheering as to how good the team were, it's not good for a home Olympics.

The OBS I believe is made of different broadcasters, so for example the BBC could cover the football and the boxing, NBC could cover the basketball.

I dare say, all broadcasters should have their neutral hats on when directing these events though.


Yep - though historically NBC, although they send huge numbers of staff (2700 this year - three times that of the BBC I believe), don't provide any host broadcast coverage. All of their people are dedicated to domestic production...

The BBC are host broadcasters for the Tennis at Wimbledon and the Rowing at Eton Dorney - I think. YLE of Finland are Athletics host broadcaster I believe (not sure if SVT are also involved as they have been previously).

The usual rule is that host broadcasters should be neutral, follow a standard format to cover each competitor, and in most events they shouldn't listen to any commentary feed (so as not to favour any specific broadcaster)

Rights holders get access to multiple feeds from the host broadcasters, and can arrange to have their own camera positions to provide additional coverage of their own competitors. NBC do this at lots of events - to the point where they often produce a totally different US-centric mix. This is aided by NBC also delaying most-events to allow them to pre-package the coverage to tell a US-centric story...
DV
DVB Cornwall
There's a tasty little Tennis encounter going on ..... Tsonga and Raonic are 23-23 all in the final set. Grabbed Freeview 301
AG
AxG
Just caught the end, longest match in Olympic history at 3:56:00.

Did not know it was best of 3?
AZ
Azimuth
This blog describes the technical challenge of the Olympic Games and lists the various nationalities who are covering the events:-



OBS Teams – Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo, Modern Pentathlon - Swimming, Basketball, Equestrian, Fencing, Handball, Sailing, Shooting, Beach Volleyball, Wrestling
BBC – Boxing, Rowing, Canoe/Kayak - Sprint, Tennis, Football
YLE (Finland) – Opening/Closing Ceremonies, Athletics-Integrated/Track/Throws
SVT (Sweden) – Athletics-Jumps
SBS(Korea) – Archery, Taekwondo
Fuji TV (Japan) – Judo
TVE(Spain) – Canoe/Kayak - Slalom, Triathlon, Aquatics-Swimming Marathon
CCTV (China) – Modern Pentathlon, Badminton, Gymnastics, Table Tennis
NOS (the Netherlands) – Cycling-Road Race, Time Trial, Athletics-Walks/Marathon
STV (Slovakia) – Hockey
ICRT(Cuba) – Volleyball
ERT(Greece) – Weightlifting
VRT (Belgium) – Cycling (BMX, Track, Mountain Bike)

More information from here:-
http://www.televisual.com/blog-detail/London-2012-the-broadcast-challenge_bid-317.html
FU
fusionlad Founding member
noggin posted:
Jon posted:
ELM 2011 posted:
On the gymantisc final, Matt Baker has just said that a Japanese firm is Filming th event, ie the live coverage is been done by a japanese firm. Why is this? And it been really shocking that we keep seeing our GB gymnastics after others so it not cempletly live, as you cons near the crown booing or cheering as to how good the team were, it's not good for a home Olympics.

The OBS I believe is made of different broadcasters, so for example the BBC could cover the football and the boxing, NBC could cover the basketball.

I dare say, all broadcasters should have their neutral hats on when directing these events though.


Yep - though historically NBC, although they send huge numbers of staff (2700 this year - three times that of the BBC I believe), don't provide any host broadcast coverage. All of their people are dedicated to domestic production...

The BBC are host broadcasters for the Tennis at Wimbledon and the Rowing at Eton Dorney - I think. YLE of Finland are Athletics host broadcaster I believe (not sure if SVT are also involved as they have been previously).

The usual rule is that host broadcasters should be neutral, follow a standard format to cover each competitor, and in most events they shouldn't listen to any commentary feed (so as not to favour any specific broadcaster)

Rights holders get access to multiple feeds from the host broadcasters, and can arrange to have their own camera positions to provide additional coverage of their own competitors. NBC do this at lots of events - to the point where they often produce a totally different US-centric mix. This is aided by NBC also delaying most-events to allow them to pre-package the coverage to tell a US-centric story...


I think you could tell yesterday when the BBC were trying to insert their own feed/pictures as their replay wipe has the coloured rings. The official feed this year seems to be just white.

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