The Cooper River Bridge Run is one of the biggest events in the country for running, with almost 40,000 entrants this year in the event, as it is one of the two or three biggest events in the Lowcountry every year.
However, the coverage given in the media has been very poor. You'd expect several TV stations to run coverage. Instead, only one station (Channel 5) did live coverage, and it was really bad. Radio (910 the Team) also had coverage, and we had to rely on that to hear what was going on.
They only showed about 5 minutes of coverage every half-hour (during Early Show cut-ins), and they barely got to interview the men's winner. They didn't even do a live interview with the women's winner, and they had Andy Pruitt and Bill Walsh in their cozy West Ashley studios, when they at least should have been downtown at the Bridge Run. You wouldn't even have known it was going on unless you tuned to the cut-ins. Channel 5 used to run two hours of coverage plus a Sunday replay, now, we got just four cut-ins.
Then, you had the weekend sports anchor interviewing like four people, and they used those three or four stationary cameras on the bridge. That was their coverage.
910 at least had a decent 1:15 of coverage, doing team coverage with people on the course and personalities from other Kirkman stations. They did a pretty good job with it. It was only on 910, so people that weren't within 20 miles of Charleston had to rely on bad Channel 5.
However, television should do better coverage of this. One of the biggest runs in the country, one of the greatest events of the year in the state, and we get stuck with Channel 5's poor coverage.
However, the coverage given in the media has been very poor. You'd expect several TV stations to run coverage. Instead, only one station (Channel 5) did live coverage, and it was really bad. Radio (910 the Team) also had coverage, and we had to rely on that to hear what was going on.
They only showed about 5 minutes of coverage every half-hour (during Early Show cut-ins), and they barely got to interview the men's winner. They didn't even do a live interview with the women's winner, and they had Andy Pruitt and Bill Walsh in their cozy West Ashley studios, when they at least should have been downtown at the Bridge Run. You wouldn't even have known it was going on unless you tuned to the cut-ins. Channel 5 used to run two hours of coverage plus a Sunday replay, now, we got just four cut-ins.
Then, you had the weekend sports anchor interviewing like four people, and they used those three or four stationary cameras on the bridge. That was their coverage.
910 at least had a decent 1:15 of coverage, doing team coverage with people on the course and personalities from other Kirkman stations. They did a pretty good job with it. It was only on 910, so people that weren't within 20 miles of Charleston had to rely on bad Channel 5.
However, television should do better coverage of this. One of the biggest runs in the country, one of the greatest events of the year in the state, and we get stuck with Channel 5's poor coverage.