[thegeek]

As the article hints, resources from sports OBs have been made available for the coverage. While a fair chunk of the weekend's Premier League went ahead, three cancelled fixtures (largely for policing reasons) will have freed up a handful of trucks and quite a few crew; while others might have had a bit of a slimming down of facilities compared to their usual spec.

The big OB providers will have been on retainer for decades for this occasion, and will no doubt have been involved in the regular planning meetings too - though I'd imagine the exact details of which trucks were going where won't have been firmed up until last week.

I caught a little bit of the 'Eve of the funeral' show on BBC One last night and it struck me as a bit of a dress rehearsal for making sure all the OBs worked into each other as it was an actual preview show for the rest of us...