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The time is nearly upon us once more when England unites for a summer of football. The BBC's team is as always much better than the opposition, as unveiled today:
BBC Press Office
Of note (for those who are as sad as me when it comes to such matters), the BBC theme tune is a remix of Basement Jaxx's Good Luck....quite a catchy tune. In other news today, England's official tournament song is a new version of "All Together Now" by The Farm (see here)
The BBC's coverage will of course be on BBC television, bbc.co.uk and bbci, and will of course pulverise ITV in the ratings (except sadly England's first two games, including the crucial France game are on ITV, and we *always* lose on ITV in European championships
)
However, the presentation bit
(and this may not prove so popular)...on closer examination of the press pack, I found this portion:
Quite an interesting read that press pack though
BBC Press Office
Of note (for those who are as sad as me when it comes to such matters), the BBC theme tune is a remix of Basement Jaxx's Good Luck....quite a catchy tune. In other news today, England's official tournament song is a new version of "All Together Now" by The Farm (see here)
The BBC's coverage will of course be on BBC television, bbc.co.uk and bbci, and will of course pulverise ITV in the ratings (except sadly England's first two games, including the crucial France game are on ITV, and we *always* lose on ITV in European championships
)
However, the presentation bit
(and this may not prove so popular)...on closer examination of the press pack, I found this portion:
Quote:
“Contractually we have to take the host
broadcaster’s match coverage and graphics,”
Phil explains.“The only thing that I can do
differently is to cut in a few of my own shots
and put on a clock with the BBC ident.We
have three match cameras to pick out extra
shots, which I will cut in to the host pictures –
for the England match for example we will get
quite neutral coverage so I will cut in extra
shots of, say, Sven or Beckham, to give the
coverage more of an English slant.”
Taking the host’s coverage has caused another
headache for Phil, who’s already anticipating a
few complaints from viewers with widescreen
televisions.
“The hosts are only offering the match
coverage in 4x3 [the standard TV picture
format], hence widescreen viewers will have
black bars down the side of their picture for
all the games , as happened with the last World
Cup in Japan. It’s unfortunate but there’s
absolutely nothing we can do about that
because that is what is generated by the
hosts,” he sighs.
Of all the channels who are taking the Euro
2004 coverage worldwide, it’s really only the
British ones – both the BBC and ITV – who
regularly broadcast in widescreen, therefore it
seems that we’ll have to wait a while longer
for the first-ever widescreen football
tournament.The good news is that all the rest
of the BBC’s coverage will be available in
widescreen – any studio coverage, features etc
will be free of those annoying black bars.
broadcaster’s match coverage and graphics,”
Phil explains.“The only thing that I can do
differently is to cut in a few of my own shots
and put on a clock with the BBC ident.We
have three match cameras to pick out extra
shots, which I will cut in to the host pictures –
for the England match for example we will get
quite neutral coverage so I will cut in extra
shots of, say, Sven or Beckham, to give the
coverage more of an English slant.”
Taking the host’s coverage has caused another
headache for Phil, who’s already anticipating a
few complaints from viewers with widescreen
televisions.
“The hosts are only offering the match
coverage in 4x3 [the standard TV picture
format], hence widescreen viewers will have
black bars down the side of their picture for
all the games , as happened with the last World
Cup in Japan. It’s unfortunate but there’s
absolutely nothing we can do about that
because that is what is generated by the
hosts,” he sighs.
Of all the channels who are taking the Euro
2004 coverage worldwide, it’s really only the
British ones – both the BBC and ITV – who
regularly broadcast in widescreen, therefore it
seems that we’ll have to wait a while longer
for the first-ever widescreen football
tournament.The good news is that all the rest
of the BBC’s coverage will be available in
widescreen – any studio coverage, features etc
will be free of those annoying black bars.
Quite an interesting read that press pack though