Like the kick-off times. Like the UEFA we'd like the final to start a bit later than six o'clock, but this is causing problems in Rotterdam. The second match on Sunday June the 11th overlaps with the finals of the Roland Garros tennis tournament, so on that day we're trying to move the football forward a bit and start the tennis a little later. These are all issues which can be dealt with by a small team of twelve people. But now the international TV stations are beginning to place their bookings for facilities, these need to be processed by an administrative staff.
Producers have to start work.
Soon there will be people in each stadium co-ordinating these activities, they will need assistants, technicians will be at work, cameras will be hired, a huge operation will mushroom between now and next year. There will be at least seven studios and dozens of commentary positions in each stadium. At the RAI congress centre in Amsterdam an enormous International Broadcasting Centre will be constructed, again with studios, cabling and so on. Not the arts directors making documentaries, of course, but otherwise all the production work will be halted for a while. Already there are no cameras left for hire.