Local News Coverage of Thunder Over Louisville

This past weekend WLKY-32 had their first shot at the exclusive coverage of Thunder Over Louisville. This event is the kick-off to the Kentucky Derby Festival.
My first disappointment came when the anchors seems to not have come prepared at all. Several times during the coverage there was dead space in the talking between the anchors. The anchors would then turn to each other and stare. This would have been forgivable a couple of times during the coverage except this happened 10+ times.
The second disappointment was that there was very little color of the program. My guess is the conversion from HD to a regular or non-HD television makes the colors fade. When the commercials (and there wer a lot of commercials) came on the color was great but for the air show and the fireworks the color was extremely faded. This came out so much during the fireworks when you could barely (if at times not at all) see the colors.
My third and final disappoint came from the apparent lack of training of the camera people. Who told the camera men and women that zooming in on fireworks was a good idea? At times all you were able to see was a glowing yellow/orange ball in the center of your screen. We lost all ability to discern the magic that Zambelli had created for the viewers in person and on television. There was also one camera that never had a clear view of the fireworks show and the director continued to call up that shot several times and all we (the viewers at home) were able to see were the gurders of the bridge.
This is my personal thanks to KDF and all the people involved in creating and pulling off an event that was once again marvelous! And also to the person who created the soundtrack for the fireworks show. Thank you! for including the theme song to T Bar V from the family of "Cactus" Tom Brooks.