IOC GOLD MEDAL FOR MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE BEIJING OLYMPICS

[magpie in the 80's]

and the winner is you got to be joking

http://www.independentweekly.com.au/new ... 88774.aspx

[hearts on fire]

Surely this is a mistake or some kind of sick joke......

All they ever had was that stupid Rebecca Wilson talking on that morning show and showed a bit of gymnastics and water polo in the afternoon.

[JAS]

Wow...errrr...congrats to them

I would have automatically assume that the Yanks would have something like that in the bag.

The BBC's coverage was probably the best they've done thanks to the online streaming using up to 6 extra channels but most of that was just the same events/news being shown on a loop. To their credit I think they did cover more sports than at previous games but the presenters were pretty awful, about as charismatic as a brick, and on a personal level there were a lot of sports I wanted to see that didn't get coverage.

Regards
JAS

[bayman]

well to be fair we haven't seen the oppositions broadcasts but all i ever saw were replays again & again & again, infact there were several events i heard on the radio during the day that were 'live' on tv when i got home from work, i realise they couldn't show every event live as some of them clashed but to make out your crossing to an event live is dissapointing

[rod_rooster]

Good Lord. Imagine how bad the coverage must have been in other countries