- Howard Nurse
- 27 Apr 06, 12:47 PM
When it comes to football, it doesn’t come any bigger than the World Cup!
Our aim is simply to provide users of the BBC Sport website with something unique, engaging and totally fantastic for the 2006 World Cup finals.
We were proud of the way we covered the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea. After all, many of the games were during 'office hours' and a lot of you could only follow what was happening in the Far East via your computers.
Things have really moved on since then, so here's how we plan to satisfy your every World Cup need this time.
Our chief football writer Phil McNulty willl bring you every bit of breaking news and info from the England camp while Mandeep Sanghera will be our “roving reporter” who’ll file from other major games at the tournament.
But it's not just about our world-class journalism - we'll be providing loads of extra things on top.
Continue reading "43 days to go and counting..."
- Roger Mosey
- 27 Apr 06, 12:33 PM
A lot of discussion this week about Grandstand, with a generally supportive reaction from the press and a mixed response from viewers. Many against losing the programme, obviously, but many in favour too. A large number saying "scrap the programme but keep the music" - so we'll see what we can do...
One of the best points made in email was there was huge coverage of what we were stopping doing but less about our future plans. Such is modern media life. But here are some headlines:
*The BBC will commit to making major events even bigger --- the best place to tell the stories of the World Cup on all our platforms (we have the rights until 2014) and showcasing Olympic Sports in the run-up to Beijing and then London 2012.
*We will put the emphasis on live sport scheduled where the greatest number of people can see it - and supplemented by highlights on demand whenever possible. In other words, you choose the timing not us.
*We will invest in interactive and new media services that give you more choice of coverage and events.
*There will be a new Sports News programme for BBC Television
*We will have a Sports Editor working across all our output with the same stature as someone like Nick Robinson in politics.
The aim is simply to make BBC Sport stronger and more exciting. But also - and this blog is part of it - more open to what audiences think and keen to debate the big issues in sport. So now it's over to you.
