- Craig Oliver
- 28 Sep 06, 01:03 PM
Does the Ten do enough sport? Should we do all the main football results? Should we show match action come what may?
Do we have a duty to do it - given that many sporting rights are now not available to terrestrial TV? Should that squeeze out other news?
These questions have been running through my mind recently. The audience feedback we get when we do sport on the Ten is almost universally negative. At a recent major focus group people seemed to be suggesting that they expected sport on local, but not national, news.
Is this view of the world right - or are sports fans more shy and retiring than we might have thought?
Recently I think we may have underplayed great action in sports matches. We didn't show Xabi Alonso scoring from inside his own half the other night, or an amazing Peter Crouch goal last night. It only takes a few seconds - and even if you are not that interested in football, it is just great pictures.
Craig Oliver is editor of 大象传媒 News at Six and 大象传媒 News at Ten
- Harriet Oliver
- 28 Sep 06, 11:47 AM
The Aussies are rightly keen to ban racist abuse in their cricket grounds ahead of the Ashes, but new guidelines on language are ambiguous on their favourite term for us Brits.
"Pom" is fine - affectionate even - "whingeing pom" (guaranteed to annoy us) is also allowed. "Pommie bastard" is distinctly borderline. We thought it would be fun to link up with an Australian radio station to get reaction on all this.
It's always a buzz to get radio listeners on different sides of the world talking to each other. It's a reasonably straightfoward thing to do technically, but a bit of planning can make all the difference between a smooth link up and a radio disaster.
Time was not on our side on Wednesday morning, and stress levels were soaring in the studio as we approached the agreed time for linking up. I just hoped for the best (not a great way of editing). Victoria was as chilled as ever and happily chatted to her Aussie counterpart and some of his listeners while I celebrated not falling off air.
It was great to hear a few opinionated Aussies on the radio. They can call us what they like as long as they promise to talk to us again soon.
Harriet Oliver is an assistant editor at 大象传媒 Radio Five Live
- Julian Bailey
- 28 Sep 06, 10:43 AM
One listener asked why did we stress so much that a 'German' firm DHL was in a news piece for the Today programme. The listener said that surely the important thing was that it was a "private" firm and that was the principal objection of public sector unions.
I don't think the piece was written in a way that was designed to stigmatise Germany. Clearly there is some concern that the private sector is running an important part of the NHS - transporting medical equipment around the NHS network.
That DHL is German-owned shouldn't affect the running of NHS Logistics. However, the fact that this company is also foreign-owned is an important detail that the listener might want to know about. They might be interested to know that profits from this venture could be heading out of the country to DHL's owner, Deutsche Post (the German Post Office).
There has certainly been a lot of interest in the way that so many foreign businesses have taken important stakes in British business this year. The key point here is not so much that DHL is German but that it is not British.
I also think that with some companies it's important for us to give a little bit of context to the story. Most people know that Ford is American and that BMW is German but many will not know about the ownership of DHL."
Julian Bailey is an assistant editor in the 大象传媒's economics and business unit
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