Boston Marathon: Will there be a way to watch the race, or will the coverage be exclusively about last year's tragedy?

I expect the coverage breakdowns to be as follows:

American feeds:

40% on the race

40% on last year's tragedy and ppl who didn't finish boston running their 5 hour marathons this year

20% on other human interest stories

international fees:

50% on the race

50% on the tragedy and human interest stories.

Good luck.

Actually I'm optimistic that there will be great race coverage for a couple of reasons. First, Universal Sports which is televising the event will be going on air earlier than usual. I suspect they will use that time to air all of the human interest stories so it will not take time away from the race coverage. Second, you have Meb, Hall, Shalane, and Desi as your top American hopefuls for the win. That is good for US TV ratings so as long as some of them are in the mix the coverage should stay focused on the race itself.

Track Fan 1979 wrote:

Actually I'm optimistic that there will be great race coverage for a couple of reasons. First, Universal Sports which is televising the event will be going on air earlier than usual. I suspect they will use that time to air all of the human interest stories so it will not take time away from the race coverage. Second, you have Meb, Hall, Shalane, and Desi as your top American hopefuls for the win. That is good for US TV ratings so as long as some of them are in the mix the coverage should stay focused on the race itself.

You're an optimist, all right.

Edward Teach wrote:

I expect the coverage breakdowns to be as follows:

American feeds:

40% on the race

40% on last year's tragedy and ppl who didn't finish boston running their 5 hour marathons this year

20% on other human interest stories

international fees:

50% on the race

50% on the tragedy and human interest stories.

Good luck.

LOL...

You'd think they could just focus on the race, and then when that's done cut to the sloggers who are at the 12 mile mark. You'd think.

Sorry bro, too many people want to exploit the tragedy. And the people will gobble the BS up like a hungry hooker at the hot dog stand.

Track Fan 1979 wrote:

Actually I'm optimistic that there will be great race coverage for a couple of reasons. First, Universal Sports which is televising the event will be going on air earlier than usual. I suspect they will use that time to air all of the human interest stories so it will not take time away from the race coverage. Second, you have Meb, Hall, Shalane, and Desi as your top American hopefuls for the win. That is good for US TV ratings so as long as some of them are in the mix the coverage should stay focused on the race itself.

I think this is actually pretty close to the mark. Universal sports has a history of actually showing the races. If this was on one of the main channels, then we would have a majority of human interest stories. I thought their Paris, and London coverage was good.

Frank shorter was on competitor radio and said he was going to focus exclusively on this year's race while on the air.

The media in Boston has been doing daily stories on "what are you running for" and either doesn't know or doesn't care that's its a race first and foremost.

Charities runners do have a place in the race, but it's a shame that the media completely ignores the elite/sub elite side.