Originally Posted by owen10:
“I have to say that Paul Nicholson has been a great pundit this week”
I think the BBC has done an excellent job this weekend in overall terms.
Jason Mohammed was solid and professional and asked relevant questions, as did that Caroline lady who did the interviews, and Nicholson and Webster provided good insight and analysis - particularly in those sections in the match breaks where they threw at the board in the studio.
The actual match coverage and spotting was a little slipshod at times but as I said yesterday, I thought it was perfectly acceptable when you consider that the sheer speed of the action was a world away from what the BBC ever had to cover at Lakeside.
As I said earlier, though, did the tournament give the BBC enough to convince them to cover PDC events on a more lasting basis or was it just an experiment that they'll now back out of?
They did give the tournament an awful lot of promotion and airtime over the last few days so wonder whether they wanted a good immediate return - or have the mindset that it needs to be "built up" and given longer exposure to the viewers first.
One way or another, I imagine there'll be a few people at PDC HQ nervously waiting for the viewing figures to come through tomorrow.