Television ‘sex’ with Domtoren – De Gelderlander

There are so many beautiful pictures to shoot. But NIS director Koen van Mourik have no second thought about what the picture is going to be the Tour start in Utrecht. ,, The moment the riders under the Dom Tower are going through, that’s the shot that I me the most pleasing. “

During the prologue of next Saturday’s Koen van Mourik (32) less than thirty meters from the finish line. Directed wagon NOS he combines the images and reports from its own reporters in the city with the images of the course he is handed by French television. And he can not wait. ,, I live in Overvecht. Utrecht is my city. I am moreover himself a true bike enthusiast. All this gives me the great feeling that the Tour de France goes straight through my back garden. “

As for the pictures, the French are leading. The NOS is complementary. ,, The French sports coverage is among the best in the world, I am confident. But you want in the stories that shows you still like to put your own touches. Take the atmosphere on the streets or squares on the Tour. ”

Making love with Dom Tower
that the French cameras violently and frequently will make love with the Dom tower, which stands for sure. And rightly so, what Van Mourik concerned. ,, The Tour is a huge sporting event that takes place on public roads. Logically, that the pretty pictures on the go will be selling well. That may be the French television like no other. Sometimes, by the way, literally. It happens sometimes that one really beautiful French chateau fee extra length is taken into focus. But Utrecht does not have to pay for it: the Dom naturally delivers all the most dazzling images ”

An army of forty NOS people irons for Tour start down in Utrecht.. French television, by comparison, takes an invasion force of some 450 people on television going. Including five motor cameras on the road, two helicopter cameras in the air, and another two aircraft and a helicopter in the upper atmosphere, which provide the connections to the finish area at the Jaarbeurs.

Choose grabbed the NIS in a Tour start off so sharply. ,, We are indeed on one of the three biggest sporting events in the world next to the Olympics and the World Cup. If that happens in their own country, then you naturally want to pull out all the stops. Before, during and immediately after we are fully operational. We want to show the power of the sport. The nervousness of the riders before the start. The relief or disappointment after the finish. But we also do at various places in the city report of the atmosphere along the course. How are the people in the heat? At the Ledig Erf example. And at Galgenwaard stadium, where the way we work with RTV Utrecht. ”

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team presentation tomorrow live by NOS. From Thursday to Saturday on the radio also broadcast the Grand Départ program, from the old post office on the Neude. Saturday and Sunday does NOS live coverage of the first and the second stage. Koen van Mourik: ,, The broadcasts have passed me, if they give viewers the feeling of having been very close to the event. And they have sympathized with the sport and the atmosphere. ”