On Wed, 03 May 2006 16:43:18 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

Think of the FX mics around a football pitch, probably on the end of
several hundred metres of cable by the time it gets to the OB truck

Radio mics, surely? Just as it's a long time since I saw the roving
interviewer and his camera dragging a cable behind him? Maybe
things are less developed in America :-)