Comments on: Rose Parade TV coverage – more than just floats, please

By: Rose Parade on TV – We’ll see a horse, even if it’s a “stuffed” one | The Horsey Set Net

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:34:09 +0000

[...] of my pet peeves about Rose Parade coverage on TV is that producers tend to cut away from the equestrian units. Not this year, by cracky. Especially [...]

By: Rose Parade, virtual-style | The Horsey Set Net

Rose Parade, virtual-style | The Horsey Set Net — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:10:30 +0000

[...] know I was griping a few days ago about TV cutting away from the horses, but not to belabor the point, HGTV [...]

By: rhond7

rhond7 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:31:25 +0000

Most of the Olympic coverage I watched, I watched online, not on the tube, because I had a feeling it might be narrowly focused. I did watch show jumping on TV because it seemed a shame to be slouched in front of a computer monitor when we have that big screen.

But I’m not surprised about what/who made it onto TV. Producers pick one or two competitors to focus on, usually who they’ve determined to be the biggest names. And then they’re left without footage when an upset happens, like during those Kentucky Derbies when one of the 30-1 shots bursts out of the pack of favorites and crosses the finish line first.

Oops. Talk about betting on the wrong horse.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:10:29 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! The biggest problem is that these things are never produced by people who care about or know anything about horses. They do the same thing with TV coverage of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. I’ve seen it in person a few times and the highlight for me is still the mounted units Olympic coverage can be pretty shabby too. The one year they might as well have called it the David and Karen O’Connor show because that was all that was shown.