BBC Olympics commentators microphones....

[Zyp]

Anyone else noticed how the little microphones are colour coded to the commentator?

[miniman]

David Dickinson's mic, earlier.

[Kermit power]

Zyp said:

Anyone else noticed how the little microphones are colour coded to the commentator?

The idea is simply to make them less obtrusive. Oddly, they seem to be really good at matching black skin tones, but fking hopeless at the white ones.

[Wattsie]

Kermit power said:

Zyp said:

Anyone else noticed how the little microphones are colour coded to the commentator?

The idea is simply to make them less obtrusive. Oddly, they seem to be really good at matching black skin tones, but fking hopeless at the white ones.

I noticed that on opening night - black guys mic was a perfect match, but the woman and Gary Linecker may as well have been given paper-white mic heads, they were so bright a shade of white-people colour!

[Life Saab Itch]

Kermit power said:

Zyp said:

Anyone else noticed how the little microphones are colour coded to the commentator?

The idea is simply to make them less obtrusive. Oddly, they seem to be really good at matching black skin tones, but fking hopeless at the white ones.

Apart from for Micheal Johnson, who has been given a jet black mic head.