Commonwealth games coverage

I've watched some of the Athletics events, but haven't really got into any of the other sports this time round.

The venues could do with being pepped up with a bit more atmosphere.
 
Agreed.

I actually think the athletics coverage has been pretty poor and has been getting steadily worse over the years. There are too many pointless track-side interviews (more then ever before) and they keep cutting back to the studio for more aimless chat instead of showing the field events. Even Michael Johnson is struggling to come up with useful things to say with the amount of air time they're asking the pundits to fill.

As an example, yesterday in the Long Jump out of the 12 finalists they showed just the top three jumpers and Tomlinson (who crashed out). I don't even know who else was in that final. How do they expect to build interest and promote the sport if they don't even cover the events?



Apparently there was a public vote and Jerusalem came out on top!! :eek: I know, I don't get it either. Also, I don't really understand the sentiment of the song, why would we want to build Jerusalem in England? I hear they've got some problems over there.
 
Other than the Presenters being in London, the Beeb has taken a lot of worldfeed commentaries (most being done in London...)

Off-tube Commentary from London:

Rugby 7s (That was obvious when Andrew Cotter done two European Games for Sky then 7's)
Boxing
Badminton

Commentary from Delhi:

Athletics
Swimming
Diving
Cycling

Host broadcast commentary is used for events not listed (off-tube from London)

Notice in that lot, Badminton was world-feed - So Barry Davies was not hired or taken on by the Beeb, for them.
 
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