GP06

To All:

It should be aired on ESPN, ESPN 2, Sports Channel, Speed, etc.....the
attempt is good but coverage is necessary if we want this sport to be
promoted...

Jacek Kobiesa
Washington State

In article . com,
wrote:
To All:

It should be aired on ESPN, ESPN 2, Sports Channel, Speed, etc.....the
attempt is good but coverage is necessary if we want this sport to be
promoted...

Jacek Kobiesa
Washington State

Quite right, but wanting it doesn't make it so. First you have to
use the material to produce an acceptable program/documentary.
Then you have to convince the broadcasters to show it.

This all takes money. Serious money.

What has been done so far is just the first step, and I hope that as
part of the follow through this will be aired on major broadcast
channels. But it won't happen overnight.

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Philip Plane _____
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Glider pilots have no visible means of support

Instead of grumbling about the lack of coverage.
Contact ESPN and others by e-mail.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/...contact/espntv

Ask them why they didn't show it live and point them in the right direction.

Maybe if we all do it then the networks may do something about it. I am sure
the GP06 team will be working from their end but if there seems to be no
public interest in it then it will never happen.

Paul


"Philip Plane" wrote in message
...
In article . com,
wrote:
To All:

It should be aired on ESPN, ESPN 2, Sports Channel, Speed, etc.....the
attempt is good but coverage is necessary if we want this sport to be
promoted...

Jacek Kobiesa
Washington State

Quite right, but wanting it doesn't make it so. First you have to
use the material to produce an acceptable program/documentary.
Then you have to convince the broadcasters to show it.

This all takes money. Serious money.

What has been done so far is just the first step, and I hope that as
part of the follow through this will be aired on major broadcast
channels. But it won't happen overnight.

--
Philip Plane _____
|
---------------( )---------------
Glider pilots have no visible means of support

In article .com,
"Pat" wrote:

You are right Mal,

though the whole consept is very good I think. I would of been nice to
see those final glide battles where only I second was separating pilots
(usually Ben Flewett)

Then ask your favourite TV station why they didn't pick the live feed
up. It was available, and it was great.

At least ask them to show the package currently being edited up. At the
function on Friday evening Peter Newport told me that he intended to
have the DVD ready to go within two weeks. I'm not sure about the TV
packagee, or whether there is a difference.


I truly hope that the reason that there were no tracking wasn't that
they wanted to so it only to the paid visitors (did I hear 10000-15000)
Ok, divide it by 100 Unfortunately Omarama is middle of nowhere.
Maybe next issue is, how to get this race closer to the big cities.

Wanaka is even further from Dunedin and (especially) Christchurch, but
they get 100,000 peeople there to Warbirds Over Wanaka.

The scenery along which the gliders were flying in close proximity is a
big part of what made the coverage so good.


Big thank to Mette and Dave who ran very nice web sites too. Lot more
information could be gathered thru there...

They have nice sites. Philip Plane also has a blog at
http://www.xinqu.net/cgi-bin/blosxom and Sue Wild's race diary on the
official site was also great when I wasn't there myself
(http://www.gp06.com/race_diary.htm).

From Mette's page:

"On the ground I could for the first time observe the second race on the
big screen and hear Gavin and Kirk Davis' live comments. I tell you, it
is all ready to go on Eurosport. It was amazing. In the second race the
pilots chose to fly more thermals and less on the ridges and were
therefore higher, slower and watching each other more. John Coutts and
Pete Harvey came in on a close finish, and time ran out. It was time for
price giving."

What she didn't see was the spectacle during the first sprint race
(which Mette was in herself) of Ben Flewett giving extensive commentary
(with video) directly from the cockpit of his glider as it raced along
the side of the Benmores, talking about his tactics and the other
pilots' tactics, and who was where, and even directing the TV editors as
to which camera might give the most spectacular view in the next few
seconds. Great stuff. And with all that he still won the race.

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Bruce | 41.1670S | \ spoken | -+-
Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------

In article .com,
"Pat" wrote:

Big thank to Mette and Dave who ran very nice web sites too. Lot more
information could be gathered thru there...

I don't have any information, but I took some pics:

http://www.hoult.org/bruce/gp06/

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Bruce | 41.1670S | \ spoken | -+-
Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------