Wednesday, November 7, 2007

WINNERS AGAIN

CNMG again take a bow. You are showing your leadership once again, long after the polls have closed.
You were first past the post in getting the live pictures from Woodford Square, then you showed the President and the Prime Minister arriving. You gave us really clean video and quality shots. You gave us live video of the PM greeting members of the public after his speech, as well as his impromptu interview with the media. This was an historic event and you proved that you are up to the challenge. Historic because it's the first time a Prime Minister has been sworn in at Woodford Square, and the first time a PM has addressed the public from that location following his swearing in.

Whereas the competition looked like they were sleeping.
Rosemarie Sant was at Woodford Square, but she heard the PM talk about this historic swearing in ceremony just like everyone else, yet the best video feed she could arrange was from the Parliament Channel! Poor video and audio. STEUPS!

TV6 you get a failing grade. Again. You went late to the live pictures at Woodford Square. Missed the President's arrival. Missed the PM's live interview with the media and Mr Manning greeting members of the public. Then you cut out at exactly 4pm to go to football.
Your managers could very easily argue that the football was paid for a long time ago and the PM's notice of this event was last minute, but this is history in the making. One week from now will anyone remember the name of the two teams in today's match? STEUPS!

CNC 3 of course had to go with whatever the Parliament Channel was doing, so they had to wait til they went live, then had to endure the poor video and audio, then had to cut out before the PM's live media interview, and his greeting the public. Gone to a kid's show.

CNMG still live with Charlene Ramdhanie and Sasha Harrinanan, with Julian in studio. Great live shots of people dancing in the square.

What happened over at WIN TV, Gayelle, Synergy, IBN?

CNMG your competition has 24 hours to get their act together for when the MP's will be sworn in at President's House at 3pm tomorrow. Will we get any live pictures before the actual swearing in?
The other stations really disappointed their viewers today.

It's 4:30 and CNMG is still bringing us live pictures from Woodford Square with the Prime Minister greeting members of the public.