Winter Olympics 2018

Never really paid attention during the Winter Olympics, and this is probably more suited to the Breakfast thread, but will it be rebranded as "Olympic Breakfast" or possibly "Winter Olympic Breakfast" while the games are on?

The BBC have announced their main lineup for the games...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/pyeongchang

Opening ceremony on BBC1 and sounds like daily coverage too. Haven't they been practically BBC2 exclusive in recent years?

Surprised Ore isn't part of the team - as has often been the case with the Winter Games it is lacking a strong male host.

He’s probably busy doing everything else on television.

Just read he's become a father this week plus think he's hosting the Strictly tour, which I suspect pays more.

AFAIK they've only used "Olympic Breakfast" during the summer games - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cpq7n/episodes/guide - and Genome suggests that that's always been the case.

For 2018 they say "Daily coverage from midnight until 8pm across BBC One and BBC Two for the 17 day duration of the Winter Games." - but it can only be on one channel or the other at any time. It sounds like they want to increase coverage on One due to GB's success in 2014, and probably because the rights are more costly than before.

2014 is a good comparison, as the BBC Two coverage often started at 5am or 7am, while they used BBC One for the usual Breakfast program. Maybe there's an appetite to put some 6am-9am coverage on BBC One, but that would be a change.

The opening ceremony starts at 11am GMT, on Friday 9 Feb.



BBC1 had about an hour a day last time - https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6p/2014/02/10 - although maybe that was just to allow BBC2 to show The Daily Politics? https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97/2014/02/10


I wonder if Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics will be shown again? They may have to overdub some parts about 2014 to make them more relevant for 2018. "Stalin used to like taking holidays in ... 'Pyeongchang'."

It's the winter games, they should be skiing down the road...



(from Arirang News)

Here's another view of the IBC (from over at the MPC).


I think NBC have the corner unit, Eurosport have one on each side for Norway (and Discovery's domestic channels) and Sweden, and I think CBC are there too.

The standup positions on the roof are a bit chilly when it's windy!

That's how you pronounce it then.


Where the trolley park?

Here’s the BBC plans in detail. Their studio is in an apartment building and consists of a single camera.

https://www.sportsvideo.org/2018/01/16/pyeongchang-2018-bbc-sport-reveals-its-winter-olympics-plans/

Sounds as if this could be a bit like Sochi (and Vancouver?) - I suspect they will use the camera RF whenever possible, apart from when the weather is too bad (if it ever is). Interesting that there's studio presentation from MediaCity in Salford too. ISTR that the BBC used a London virtual studio for 1998, can't remember if they also did in 2002.

Running a single camera for roaming and chatting is far more flexible than having to run a single camera in a studio setup (particularly if you are doing interviews)

The BBC has traditionally used remote production techniques for the Winter Olympics (as Winter Sports is quite niche here) - Turin/Torino in 2006 had a multi-camera studio cut on-site, but the integration between this studio and the main OBS (if it was OBS then) host feeds and unilateral standup positions done in TC5 in London. (Turin was the first time that the BBC had full uncompressed SDI fibre feeds from site ISTR - with SDTI EVS integration too ?).

Vancouver was single camera roaming, as was Sochi, and both were integrated back in the UK 'remote production' style.

It was TOBO back in Turin. Beijing was the first OBS event, although most of the personnel were the same, even at management level, for the previous several games host broadcast operations.