keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) (08/07/84)
ABC is charged with the task of providing ALL the video for ALL the countries' video feeds. (This means that they have cameras *everywhere* running *all the time*.) Each and every foreign producer is then free to select whatever portion of it he wishes to present to his audience. It is, indeed, the producer for the American portion that should be the receiving this collective criticism. Don't go thinking that what you are watching is the same programming that everyone else in the world is watching. (Talk about chauvanistiv attitides!) And, if you think you can do a better job, then give it a try... keith ericson at teklabs (and, no, I'm NOT affiliated with ABC or anyone/anything close to them... Except I 'spose Tek sells them T&M and TV equipment.)
pdf@garfield.UUCP (Paul D Fardy) (08/09/84)
> ABC is charged with the task of providing ALL the video for ALL the > countries' video feeds. (This means that they have cameras *everywhere* > running *all the time*.) Each and every foreign producer is then free to > select whatever portion of it he wishes to present to his audience. It > is, indeed, the producer for the American portion that should be the > receiving this collective criticism. Don't go thinking that what you > are watching is the same programming that everyone else in the world is > watching. (Talk about chauvanistiv attitides!) > > And, if you think you can do a better job, then give it a try... > > keith ericson at teklabs Your are right right that we arren't seeing the same thing that you are seeing but we still aren't seeing much besides the US atheletes. During the women's team gymnastics competition, we saw little of the other teams - only when there no US women performing, we saw some of the Romanian performances but very few. Our CBC announcer seemed rather unsure of when the picture was going to switch to another camera. I have noticed them cut off a performance just as the announcer leads up to some move an athelete is expected to make. CBC radio had a fifteen to twenty minute segment on Friday evening discussing the poor coverage. I thought CBC covered our '76 Olympics quite well(I think we did do a better job). If they have as much control over the broadcast as you say, I can't see why they are fooling things up this time. Paul Fardy {utcsrgv,ihnp4,allegra}!garfield!pdf pdf@garfield.UUCP PS I don't think you know any better than the anyone else from the states what we get to see, so I don't think you should make assumptions any more than the others should. (It happens that the others are correct, though).