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Bbc-Host Broadcaster XIII COMMONWEALTH GAMES SCOTLAND 1986 SUPPLEMENT JULY 1986 ~ENG INF BBC-HOST BROADCASTER f' The XIII Commonwealth ;ames are going to be the BBC's most complex and exciting Outside Broadcast reaching an audience all round the world and involving one thousand BBC staff on duty in Edinburgh. This supplementary issue of "Eng Inf", the BBC's engineering quarterly presents the background of the Host Broadcaster operation, some details of the various OBs and the preparation of the purpose-built Broadcast Centre. We cannot expect our vast audience to appreciate the enormous efforts of planning, engineering and production that are going into the Games. Broadcasting Meadowbank Stadium ,.--4> at its most effective when its before and so to design, build and 2chniques are least conspicuous - asset in planning the Games test all the studios, working areas if the audience is made conscious of coverage. As early as 1982 he was and circuits has been a major technology it usually means that able to sketch out the pattern of challenge to the ingenuity of the there's an error in production or a the OBs and relate them to the PID Television team working under failure of equipment. If this is true vehicles and crews that are available. the guidance of Geoff Key of OB of broadcasting in general, it is even Without the strength of centralised Section. The entire process has ) more true of broadcast engineering planning within a single taken three years. in particular. As engineers we organisation the operation would provide the framework which have been virtually impossible. As The largest number of sustains the skills of our production it is other calls on BBC resources broadcast engineers in Edinburgh colleagues. The engineering for the have been reduced to a minimum for the Games consists of the BBC Host Broadcaster operation at the for the period of the Games operational staff who work in the XIII Games is on a massive scale although all the other regular sports scanners, man the studios, operate and, for the broadcasts to be events are being covered - as is the VT machines and staff the Central successful, it has to be right - first Royal Wedding. Technical Area of the Broadcast time! The Host Broadcaster operation Centre. Last, but by no means least, The Host Broadcast team has is no showcase of new and untried are the Communications staff who been able to call on resources from technology but the scale of the are mounting a huge operatio'l in all parts of the BBC. Brendan operation needs a Broadcast Centre co-operation with BT to link Slamin, Project Director, designed to suit the Games. The together the venues, the Broadcast acknowledges that the size of the BBC has never built a temporary Centre and the home countries. Corporation has been a tremendous operations centre. on this scale Edward Trickett. The Friendly Games Remember 1970? Remember the Closing Ceremony of the IX Commonwealth Games when the athletes danced round the Queen's carriage as it travelled slowly round the track? That was the last occasion that the Games were held in Edinburgh and that was when they earned the name of "The Friendly Games". The Commonwealth Games have always been a smaller and more intimate affair than the Olympics. With only 10 sports and lasting only 10 days (compare the Olympics' 23 sports and 15 days) the Commonwealth Games have managed to avoid some of the worst excesses of the larger event. The Games take place every four The Broadcast Centre dining room with a mural by Glasgow designer, Peter years and are open to competitors Duelling. /\ from the countries of the water sports course at Strathclyde back to the Broadcast Centre b) Commonwealth. For this purpose Park which is set in more attractive SHF link or, in the case of Bowls, that includes the dependent surroundings than its English by underground cable. To guard territories as well as the equivalent in Nottingham. The against possible failure of the link independent nations and so, for rowing programme includes we are using one VT machine at example, Gibraltar and Hong Kong women's rowing for the first time each venue to produce a continuous are both represented. The home and over the same distance, 2000'11, archive or guard recording while countries all have separate teams - as for men. another machine is used for slow and by home countries we mean Another newcomer to the motion action replays. Three not just Scotland, England, Wales Games is synchronised swimming, events need out-of-the-ordinary OB coming in as part of the swimming production and Northern Ireland but also the - athletics (track and Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey. programme in addition to the field), the marathons and the More than 50 countries are sending swimming and diving. The Royal rowing. competitors to Edinburgh this year. Commonwealth Pool, which was Track and field athletics are The ten sports are selected by built specially for the IX Games in naturally seen as the centrepiece of the host country from a list of 16 - 1970, is again the venue for these the Games. They involve the just two, athletics and swimming, events. The other venue built for largest numbers of competitors and must be included. The other 8 the 1970 Games, Meadowbank they require the most complex sports chosen by the Scots are: Stadium, is once again home for the broadcast coverage. At any on~ badminton, bowls, boxing, cycling, athletics apd for the Opening and time as many as three events can b, rowing, shooting, weightlifting and Closing Ceremonies. taking place - a race on the track, a wrestling. None of these is a sport The Host Broadcaster has a jumping event and a throwing conducted on a purely team basis - special part to play in the Opening event. Producers at the Broadcast those are specifically banned Ceremony. Much of the ceremony Centre want to be free to choose because the Games are "contests follows a strict order laid down in any of these events so that means between individuals and not the Games Constitution but it we need three live vision circuits J contests between countries" includes a display which, for the back to the Broadcast Centre, one (Article 8 of the Commonwealth XIII Games, is being produced by for track events and two for field. Games Constitution). So sports the Host Broadcaster. Stewart A fourth circuit provides pictures like hockey and football do not Morris of Television's Light continuously from a wideangle appear but team events do have Entertainment Department is camera which the producers can use their place in the 10 sports chosen, responsible for the production on for shots linking between coverage for example, the relay races in behalf of the BBC. of different events. With so much athletics, the fours and eights in the Televising the Sports going on there's a heavy demand rowmg. It's simpler to think of the for interviews with athletes - In practice most of the sports Games as ten separate live OBs usually "flash" interviews at the chosen are the same as those rather than one big OB. Most of trackside. One camera has been selected four years ago - the odd the sports are covered in a straight- designated as the interview camera one out this year is rowing which forward manner producing a single and its output is also continuously was last included back in 1962 in output from the scanner. This fed by a fifth circuit back to the Perth, Australia. The Scots are consists of international vision and Broadcast Centre. As if that taking advantage of their national international sound which is fed wasn't enough, a sixth circuit is Page 2 Eng In! - Supplement fixed cameras only until the Lucerne. Altogether eight cameras allocated unilaterally to BBC are in use - two on the boat, two Television to allow the home mobiles can join in. While both races are taking place there are at the start, one at the 1000m mark, audiences to follow the fortunes of one at 1500m, one at the finish and the British competitors without three circuits through to the Broadcast Centre: one carrying the one at the boating area where the affecting the Host Broadcaster crews embark and disembark. On coverage. men's marathon coverage, one the finals days there's a ninth camera Marathons are part of the women's marathon and one viewing the events from a athletics programmes but their 26 showing the continuous output helicopter. mile 385 yard course means a from the lead vehicle. special operation for live television. Rowing has not featured in the The BBC as Host Broadcaster The course starts and finishes in Commonwealth Games since 1964. This year's competition is at the With more than 50 countries Meadowbank stadium and extends sending teams to the Games and east along the south shore of the new Scottish international standard course at Strathclyde Loch nearly 30 of them wanting to see Firth of Forth to a turning point at the events on television it needs a Longniddry. The usual coverage alongside the M74 between Motherwell and Hamilton. The Host Broadcaster to provide the for a marathon is to have a number complex operation. of cameras at fixed positions along Scottish course is very attractive, being set in the landscaped As Host Broadcaster the BBC is the course plus mobile cameras on surroundings of the Strathclyde ultimately responsible for the the road and in the air to follow the Country Park, but the pleasant facilities that will allow listeners leaders. The complication this time surroundings have given us a new and viewers all round the is caused by the need to cover both problem to solve.
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