The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesAugust 8-24 2008
Video: Interview with Manolo Romero
(BEIJING, August 18) -- Very few people can boast the following credentials: seven Emmy Awards; a legendary broadcaster in internationally televised sporting events and involved in every Olympic Games since 1968.
Manolo Romero is one of them. The managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services is currently stationed in Beijing to cover the 2008 Summer Games. As chief executive officer of BOB (Beijing Olympics Broadcasting), Romero took a few minutes out of his busy day to receive interviewers from the BOCOG official website to talk about his experience, now that the Beijing Olympic Games has reached its midpoint.
Romero's staff works to provide worldwide broadcasting companies with more than 5,000 hours of footage, all in high definition, a first in Olympic coverage history. When satellites started half a century ago, he remembers, television was black and white.
For Romero, the Beijing Games is a big challenge. With cultural differences and language barriers in the way, communication can be difficult, but he thinks his crew handles every situation the best way it can. The footage they have provided to broadcasters, including NBC, have been received quite positively.
The leading executive takes his job serving the public very seriously. According to Romero, providing the best coverage possible is an obligation.
Our goal is to give television watchers the best views of the action, he said.
