Olympic Commentators

Dear Mr Fuller

Thank you for contacting us about our coverage of the London 2012 Olympics and in particular those t**sers we used for the sailing stuff.

We are receiving a variety of feedback including complaints, appreciations, enquiries and comments with many differing views or observations about numerous aspects of the coverage, including which teams are not covered or particular comments made by commentators or other contributors. We are reporting this feedback in detail daily to our producers and other staff covering the games, and are grateful for your reaction because it is helpful in shaping the coverage. However in order to use licence fee resources appropriately, we regret we cannot offer to address each individual point and are sending this reply to many of those who have contacted us.

Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) have been appointed by London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the host broadcaster to provide feeds for all broadcasters including the BBC. The BBC uses feeds provided by OBS along with our own coverage to provide the best coverage we can for viewers and listeners across the UK. We refer to Team GB in our coverage, as an accepted abbreviation of “Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, since this is the name adopted by the British Olympic Association to represent the competing nations within the United Kingdom. 

The coverage of London 2012 is a huge logistical task, with many changes being made to the planned scheduling of events. The context is that we are making every Olympic sport available and therefore providing extensive coverage across our TV and radio stations as well as online and through the red button, mobile and tablet devices. Given this, we realise some aspects of the scheduling or commentary have not satisfied everyone and are sorry when any technical or factual errors occur.

We are of course ensuring that we report all the reaction to our producers and managers as soon as possible and we investigate possible breaches of editorial guidelines. Roger Mosey is the BBC’s director of London 2012 and is regularly responding to issues on Twitter @rogermosey, supported by blogs from senior BBC figures as appropriate at www.bbc.co.uk/blogs.

He has been tasked with the job of removing them from the air please indicate your preferred method of disposal.

1)Hung by yard arm

2)Fired from Canon towards France (preferred option)

3)Made to attend and commentate upon Y&Y Forum Funday Regatta, with tar & feather accompaniment

Thank you again for contacting us. 

Kind Regards

BBC Complaints

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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