TVNZ Seoul team numbers 50

Press, 14 September 1988, Page 18

TVNZ Seoul team numbers 50

Coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, much of it live, is scheduled to take up 150 hours of Television One’s air time this month. TVNZ is sending a team of 50 to the South Korean capital to cover the 16 days of top international competition, and with Seoul’s time just two hours behind New Zealand’s, executive producer, Kevin Cameron, is promising stay-home Kiwis “live coverage of most key events.” “In addition,” he says, “we will be endeavouring to follow the fortunes of New Zealand athletes. Where we cannot capture them live, we will cer-

tainly make sure they make an appearance in one of our videotape highlight packages.” Cameron describes the Seoul news team as a lean one — “especially,” he says, "when you consider the amount of work they will have to get through during a straight trot over 16 days.” "It is a smaller team than the one we took to the Commonwealth Games two years ago but then, of course, we produced the whole programme out of Edinburgh ... the front people were there along with everyone else.” The Olympic coverage will be presented in association with Telecom

Corporation of New Zealand from the Avalon TV Centre with Phillip Leishman, Peter Williams and Geoff Bryan acting as frontmen. lain Eggleton and Murray Needham will be the key producers/] directors at the New Zealand end. The news team’s involvement will go a lot further than just filling straight or hard news sto-. ries. “My philosophy, which is fortunately shared by news producer Paul Cutler, is that they are there to tell the full story of the Olympics ... to get reactions and responses from athletes before and after, events,” says Kevin Cameron.