At halftime of the match between Qatar and Ecuador, the commentator at the Al Khor studio, Amit Levintel, provided an anecdote about the conqueror of the exiles, and told how once during the game the player escaped from policemen who came to arrest him in the stadium - because he did not pay alimony to his wife.
Funny, whimsical and full of volume like Levinthal's hair - this is exactly the information that real fans want to receive in World Cup broadcasts.
Because the World Cup belongs to the players.
They are supposed to be the stars of the broadcasts.
Children wear their shirts and worship them, and in return it is their duty to provide us with emotional pleasure.
Therefore, it is the participating national teams that should receive the focus.
Not the businessmen, not the fans and not the reporters.
"The World Cup in Qatar is corrupt", shouted the headlines in 2010 when the country was chosen to host.
And then again every year since.
Therefore, it is a pathetic hassle to continue riding on the thesis even today, when the celebration has started and when the eyes of the world are focused on the games.
After all, nothing can be changed anymore, and it's like grinding water.
They grind water on the tax money.
World Cup broadcasts in Khan 11, photo: screenshot
But for now that's all we're talking about.
Even on the opening day of the World Cup, 11 of them continued to talk about omissions, about beers in the fields, about human rights and about workers who were killed in the preparations, as if there wasn't enough talk about it in the last 12 years.
Digging for corruptions and problems is an easy and annoying choice of content, and it seems that the attempt to make the tournament accessible to everyone pulls the level of broadcasting into banal areas, to items about fans without beer and recycling materials.
Too many people attended the broadcasts yesterday;
Everyone tried to steal focus and mark their place (Moav Verdi, I mean you).
The delegation flown by the Public Broadcasting Corporation to Qatar is huge and includes 67 people, who will broadcast dozens of hours from the ground to all platforms.
The cost of the operation is estimated at 15 million shekels from our tax money.
In light of this, everything will be judged according to the quality of the broadcasts and if they justified sending such a wide team.
Because it's fine if the investment keeps viewers on the channel after the World Cup, but history shows that just like Tal Berman, when it's all over - the viewers will also leave here and return to the commercial channels.
Coverage of the opening of the World Cup games - Qatar 2022, here 11
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