Commonwealth Games - BBC coverage

Clearly. However from a presentation point of view, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some similarities in how the coverage is presented.

The Commonwealth Games programme scheduling, for example, is almost a carbon copy of the Olympics schedules.

Eh?

Why on earth would the Olympics not have an influence on the commonwealth coverage. For many sports the Olympics sets the standard for coverage. It'd be crazy for the host broadcaster of another large multi-discipline event not to take note and influences from the olympics. Anyone planning the coverage of an Olympic sport is going to watch previous Olympic games to see what they did and how it worked as a matter of course.

Soap fans already kicking up a stink about Eastenders moving to BBC2 during the Commonwealths.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1984223

Well, reading the thread, it's just two lunatic obsessives, the other posters on there
make very valid points that it's the common sense thing to do

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28318601

So BBC journalists and technicians are taking industrial action coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.

One would imagine the biggest impact will be on BBC News, but it'll be interesting to see if the strike action has an effect on the opening ceremony coverage. With behind-the-camera staff also taking part, I suppose there's a possibility of some impact.

And of course, in terms of the front-of-camera 'talent', one of the co-commentators for the opening ceremony happens to be the BBC's chief news anchor who incidentally doesn't usually appear on strike days.

"A BBC spokesperson said the broadcaster would do all it can to bring its audience uninterrupted coverage of the Commonwealth Games."

Saying all that, wasn't there was industrial action planned - or at least threatened - to coincide with the start of London 2012?

The BBC isn't host broadcaster, so in theory they should be able to just get RedBee to cut up the World Feed if the worst came to the worst.

While BECTU members at the BBC are walking out, I can't see this having a great deal of impact on the opening ceremony. Most of the technical staff at major events like the Commonwealth Games are not directly employed by the BBC: they're freelancers or will work for OB companies or the BBC's third-party providers like Atos. In general the advice to union members not directly in dispute is to do their normal job; but not to do the work of colleagues who are out on strike.

I think the largest on-air impact will be disruption to news programming, as we've seen on previous strike days.

I guess the new BBC Sport graphics package will make it's first appearance away from the World Cup for the Commonwealth Games.

Ooh, that's promising. Can they strike for every opening ceremony going forward then please.

What if we end up with Trevor Nelson as the lead commentator instead?

Or the same commentary on TV and radio? You could probably sustain BBC1, 5 Live, Radio Scotland and as many local radio stations as can't find enough content with the same commentary if you really had to.

Having the same commentary on both radio and TV probably wouldn't work. They'd either annoy the viewers by stating the obvious or the listeners by not telling them what's happening!