ROAD RUNNING
Commentary team for
the FNB Cape Town 12
ONERUN
Soweto Marathon OB van
from Vince, saying he needed help with producing a
livestream broadcast of the race. ASA and the SABC
had been unable to come to an agreement about
renewing the broadcast rights to all running events in
the country, and the race had decided to do its own
broadcast. Pedigree Media, led by Salama Kahn and
Robin Paulsen, had been given the job, and they had
brought in Vince to manage the crew and outside
broadcast van, or OB van.”
“I told him the only way I would do it was if I could
do commentary, and he agreed. So while Salama
managed the client side, I managed the content side,
which included producing pre-race inserts, then doing
race day commentary with Cuan Walker. We pulled
the whole thing off in three days, and considering the
rush, it actually went very smoothly! Best of all was
the great feedback we received afterwards, from Two
Oceans and the running public.”
Success Breeds Success
While still on air doing the Two Oceans broadcast,
Manfred received a message from Michael Meyer
at Stillwater Sport to say he and Cuan were doing a
great job. Manfred was already working as the media
manager on Stillwater’s FNB Run Your City series of
road races, and now Michael asked Salama if she
could do a livestream broadcast of the FNB races in
Cape Town in May and Durban in October. “She then
pulled me in again and together we managed the
stream, with my input mainly on the content side,”
says Manfred.
“For the FNB races, I advised on content, story line,
some of the camera positioning, and the running order
of the broadcast, and was part of the commentary
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