Nordic Ski World Championships are on in Falun in Sweden this week. Interestingly the TV coverage says they expect over 200000 visitors over the competition. Live TV coverage even for the qualification competitions.
Be interesting to compare this with WOC 2016 in Sweden next year. The number 1 punters winter sport v summer sport?
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Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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The difference is that Eurosport covers Biathlon and other Winter Sports like XC skiing, Alpine, luge, skeleton, ski-jumping and brings in extra money for more coverage. It doesn't cover orienteering so while there will likely be some TV coverage I suspect it'll have nowhere as thorough and while some of it may be on national TV, I doubt any non-Nordic countries will buy/show it.
Jukola and Tio-Mila are always good to watch (except when they are pay to view).
Does anyone know if there was decent coverage in the Nordic countries of EOC 2012 in Falun? The coverage in the arena was pretty good (we were in the Ski-Jump seating with a big screen to watch and a spectator control at the top of the hill), in fact probably the best I've seen at EOC/WOC.
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Jukola and Tio-Mila are always good to watch (except when they are pay to view).
Does anyone know if there was decent coverage in the Nordic countries of EOC 2012 in Falun? The coverage in the arena was pretty good (we were in the Ski-Jump seating with a big screen to watch and a spectator control at the top of the hill), in fact probably the best I've seen at EOC/WOC.
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I'd interested to know, at what level of sport does TV bring cash into the event rather than taking it out. Paying for TV coverage is possibly the biggest outgoing for WOC, and the biggest income for EPL (at £5bn). Somewhere in between must be a break-even.
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graeme wrote:I'd interested to know, at what level of sport does TV bring cash into the event rather than taking it out. Paying for TV coverage is possibly the biggest outgoing for WOC, and the biggest income for EPL (at £5bn). Somewhere in between must be a break-even.
Surely, the moment the TV company pays to cover it! rather than the event pay for TV coverage?
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If you want a TV company to cover and broadcast something like WOC, you pay them.
What actually happens is that WOC pays an independent production company to make a package, either live or recorded. Then they try to sell the package to TV companies worldwide. I don't know if this will cover the costs in WOC2015, I don't think it did last year when they had coverage in Scandinavia, Switz. Czech and on cable in the US.
What actually happens is that WOC pays an independent production company to make a package, either live or recorded. Then they try to sell the package to TV companies worldwide. I don't know if this will cover the costs in WOC2015, I don't think it did last year when they had coverage in Scandinavia, Switz. Czech and on cable in the US.
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graeme wrote:I'd interested to know, at what level of sport does TV bring cash into the event rather than taking it out. Paying for TV coverage is possibly the biggest outgoing for WOC, and the biggest income for EPL (at £5bn). Somewhere in between must be a break-even.
I don't know what Europhysics Letters has to do with it Graeme
Benefits of TV coverage include: increased awareness of the sport; more attractive for event (and team) sponsors; and likely a better Arena experience for those who attend.
The most exciting sport for me on TV just now is Biathlon and they've tweaked their formats in the last 20-30 years to me it more TV-friendly and the whole sport is big money now. Of course one of their major sponsors was Eurosport! Whether this is the way to go for Orienteering I don't now, but presumably this is why events like Pursuit and Mass Starts are being considered.
The most exciting O race I've seen was the Women's Relay at the France WOC - something like 6 different leaders on the last leg - that would have made great TV viewing.
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JK wrote:The most exciting sport for me on TV just now is Biathlon
With 3 Brits skiing just now live on Eurosport in the Junior World Champs from Minsk with Scott Dixon coming into his first shoot ...... now
Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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graeme wrote:I'd interested to know, at what level of sport does TV bring cash into the event rather than taking it out. Paying for TV coverage is possibly the biggest outgoing for WOC, and the biggest income for EPL (at £5bn). Somewhere in between must be a break-even.
Well the Commonwealth games *usually* (info pre 2014, I don't know details of Glasgow) makes a loss from TV production. Australia and GB will pay a small amount, most other nations need to be paid to show the Games. The CGF believe that it is worth it to spread awareness of the games throughout the commonwealth for political/trade reasons.
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