Mosey: BBC wasn’t complacent over Paralympics 12/01/2010 |
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The BBC’s director of London 2012 Roger Mosey has denied suggestions that complacency was the reason the Corporation missed out on the Paralympics rights to Channel 4.
The BBC will not broadcast the 2012 Paralympic Games for the first time since 1976 after Channel 4 paid more than £5m to secure the rights.
Some experts have accused the BBC of not taking its commercial rival seriously enough but, writing on his BBC blog, Mosey said: “We never took the outcome for granted.
“It was blindingly obvious from the start of this process that the Paralympics would be very attractive to Channel 4, as well as potentially to Sky and pay broadcasters.”
It has also been speculated that Channel 4 was chosen because it vowed to make the Paralympics its main focus, rather than the event having to play second fiddle to the Olympic Games on the BBC.
But Mosey added: “I don’t think we remotely saw the Paralympics as ‘fringe’, but there’s no doubt we’ve got a 1,000 per cent full-on job in covering the Olympics and the multitude of other events in 2012.
”There are two views: one that the Paralympics are best served by being incorporated fully within that story, or the other that a single focus on the Paralympics would be better. We took the first view – but the second is perfectly legitimate too.”
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