Best way for Houston to cover 4 races going on simultaneously

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    wejo

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    7 years ago 01/16/2017 5:35pm EST

    Houston is the only race in the world I can think of that has two world class marathons going on simultaneously with 2 world class halfs.

    It made it at least for me nearly impossible to follow on the TV broadcast. I'd like to see what solutions you all have to make it easier for fans to follow.

    Not really covering the competitive part of the marathon until the halfs are over, staggering the races, or having the halfs on Saturday and the full on Sunday are ideas I can quickly think of, but I'm interested in your ideas. Let's hear them.

    Plus on the internet they should at least showing the dedicated feed of each race. That seems like a no brainer. Since there is a camera on each race, let fans on the internet pick whichever one they want.

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    7 years ago 01/16/2017 5:37pm EST
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  • SAlly V

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    7 years ago 01/16/2017 5:42pm EST
    re: wejo

    On the broadcast I was watching it showed the live feeds of all 4 races.

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    Luv2Run

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    7 years ago 01/16/2017 6:46pm EST
    re: wejo

    Would there be added bandwidth cost?

    Issues with races on Saturday and Sunday is road closures for two days and paying for police plus finding enough volunteers for two days.

    Paying timing company for two days worth of services.

  • Chin up and Pull up champ

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    7 years ago 01/16/2017 6:51pm EST
    re: luv2run

    luv2run wrote:

    Would there be added bandwidth cost?

    Issues with races on Saturday and Sunday is road closures for two days and paying for police plus finding enough volunteers for two days.

    Paying timing company for two days worth of services.

    When they ran the 2012 Olympic Trials for the marathon they ran the race on Saturday. They then race the other races on Sunday. The Trials race was run on a different course and was a 3-loop course on Memorial and Allen Parkway which didn't require much road closures. Both those streets are a bit isolated and don't have too any roads feeding into them or out of them. Kind of a closed loop.

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    wejo

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    7 years ago 01/17/2017 11:12am EST
    re: luv2run

    luv2run wrote:

    Would there be added bandwidth cost?

    Issues with races on Saturday and Sunday is road closures for two days and paying for police plus finding enough volunteers for two days.

    Paying timing company for two days worth of services.

    The 5k is already on Saturday so the timing isn't a problem.

    But if we're sticking to one day, almost nothing of consequence happens in a marathon the first hour.

    They could show the start of the marathon, talk about all the runners crossing the start, what a great event it is, and that's 20 minutes. Then just cover the halfs and don't break away much to the marathon until the halfs are over. Still not ideal.

    SAlly V wrote:

    On the broadcast I was watching it showed the live feeds of all 4 races.

    What do you mean? They had feeds on all the races but they jumped back and forth. Very disjointed on the broadcast.

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