Well donewith juniorpan, Wack

THE EDITOR: The most fulsome praise and thanks go out to Kenny Phillips and his team at Wack 90.1 FM for their full coverage of the 2019 Junior Panorama finals.

From the very first note played by the primary school finalists to the last note played by the legacy junior bands, not forgetting the secondary schools in-between, Wack gave excellent coverage, commentary and a live stream.

The same cannot be said for TTT. At least it showed the primary and secondary school finalists and two of the legacy junior bands. There was no commentary other than that from the house announcers. This was sparse, at best.

Viewers were lost at many parts of the show in trying to understand which bands were playing at any point in time. As soon as a band had finished playing, TTT cut to one of the Calypso Monarch finalists, so there was no announcement of which band had played.

At 5.50 pm, when BP Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra was about to play, TTT totally lost the plot. It switched to some show called Video Vibe. It was total disrespect to our young pannists.

I switched to Wack’s online coverage.

There was an amazing display of talent and high-quality performances by our young people and they deserved to be celebrated.

Pan Trinbago must also be commended for the arrangements made with the radio station. Wack was the only radio station, to cover the finals.

LINUS F DIDIER, Mt Hope

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