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[IanR]

Hats off to the BBC

1800 boats 16k plus participants and news coverage consists of dollly bird standing on cowes green talking to Alan Titchmarsh - not one shot of a boat other than a rib in the harbour

5 mins later oh Day Melon, and the Leopard just finished, pan around to Calshot with no boats on the water

Is there a Lazy Darwin award for TV production?

Its not a question of cost, they could have put one team down at hurst - Production my arse! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Talbot]

If they wanted a spectacular, then a camera at the needles will normally provide good pictures. If its not collissions with other boats, there is always someone who collides with the wreck.

 

[DanTribe]

What did you expect? After all it's not "sport" is it, hardly any football connection. [Not a lot of gardening either, come to that].
Now if you could get a footballer to buy and sell property and antiques to "celebrities" during the race, it would be worth the beeb covering it.

 

[TeamSpirit]

BBC South Today promising coverage on tomorrow nights news - allegedly they had a man on the water capturing the action !

 

[Twister_Ken]

Unfortunately it coincided with some footballer bailing out of Arse'n'all to earn even more money in Spain, so that grabbed the sport slot. Even BBC Radio Solent concentrated on rained-off cricket matches.

 

[jac]

To be fair to BBC south - they actually had a reporter on Day Mellons cat - I guess we'll see her article on South Today on Monday. As for the national news - well down to the BBCs usual maritime based reporting.

 

[Koeketiene]

Agree - but does it matter?

Why this obsession with TV coverage of boat shows or sailing events?
(Not talking about Velux, Vendee Globe or AC)

Surely the only things that matter are:
1. Where you there?
2. Did you have fun?

 

[KeithH]

Good point. I was there, and I did!

Nice to see something on the TV about it, though.