ITV know how to ruin a great sporting ocassion don't they!
heavymental
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Their coverage of the world cup has been awful hasn't it?
Adverts right up to the moment of kick off.
Sequences with absolutely no relevance to the country the competition is taking place in.
Jim Rosenthal clearly knows nothing at all about rugby.
No time for any in depth chat about the games, the venues, or well, anything really.
All you get is coverage of the game. Everything else that makes it a joy to watch a big sporting competition on tv is missing.
When will the beeb get covearge so we can see someone do a good job of showcasing an amazing event.
I couldn't believe at the last world cup. The final...England vs Australia. Biggest sporting monent since 1966 for England. It goes to Extra time and ITV shoehorned some adverts in between the 2 periods. Unbelievable.
Adverts right up to the moment of kick off.
Sequences with absolutely no relevance to the country the competition is taking place in.
Jim Rosenthal clearly knows nothing at all about rugby.
No time for any in depth chat about the games, the venues, or well, anything really.
All you get is coverage of the game. Everything else that makes it a joy to watch a big sporting competition on tv is missing.
When will the beeb get covearge so we can see someone do a good job of showcasing an amazing event.
I couldn't believe at the last world cup. The final...England vs Australia. Biggest sporting monent since 1966 for England. It goes to Extra time and ITV shoehorned some adverts in between the 2 periods. Unbelievable.
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Wasn't the tension yesterday evening between Fitzy, Castagneide and Martin Bayfield a classic moment after the game.0
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Yeh it was...for about 3 minutes in between adverts and the end of the programme! Would of been nice to have more of it. Fitzy was gutted wasn't he. To be fair I've been impressed with Will Greenwood doing commentary and pitchside reporting. He knows his stuff and is interesting to listen to.0
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Yep, they ruined the British Superbikes too when they took over from the BBC.0
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Couldn't agree more. I used to watch F1 when it was on BBC (and there was nothing else on + it was raining), but the ITV coverage irritates me beyond belief. Commentators saying 'P 3', 'P 4', instead of 'third' and 'fourth', and referring to drivers by daft nicknames like 'fizzy' as if they're best mates. AAARGH! Don't get me started on the adverts.
I just hope Moto GP (which I follow religiously), stays 'niche' enough for ITV to keep their grubby mits off.0 -
Jim Rosenthal is obviously not interested, he was useless at F1 too and as for the F1 commentator, bring back Muddly Talker anyday.
ITV should have held onto Gabby Logan, at least she is married to a former international and should show some interest but she took the hump when ITV poached Steve Rider from BBC to do F1 and he also ended up getting the soccer world cup.
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Jim just chooses to talk about what he thinks the stupidest viewer is thinking. When England beat Samoa he went on about how it was all down to Wilko and Martin Johnson had to pull the coverage back on side by raising the point that the forwards helped out too. He sounded like an excitable kid or a tabloid writer who thinks a team game is all about one individual. Then against Aus he was wetting his pants about Sheridan like he was the only player who contributed. He's always too keen to put a hero onto a pedestal and ignore the rest of the team. That also means he'll always drag up the fact that Wilko scored the winning drop goal 4 years ago at any given opportunity. Its probably because they only have a few minutes to summarise the game. Shorten the adverts down and make the most of a massive sporting moment for gods sake! I'm sick of Guiness, EDF Energy, that insurance company that suggests your chimney might fall on your head on a fine summers day and fkin Peugeot! Sod off!0
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Is there any sport that ITV hasn't managed to screw up coverage of?
Channel 4 had decent coverage of the WRC with the nightly round ups (all that is really feasible with rallying), ITV were only showing it on the Sunday with a live stage when I last bothered to watch it.
BBCs approach to F1 was basic, show the race and then bugger off.
It worked, that's all you need for any sport except for maybe a brief really of certain interesting bits.
Strangely this worked quite well on Eurosport for years, didn't know what John Watson, Ben Edwards or David Duffield looked like until I saw the 1st 2 at the British Grand Prix and Duffield started appearing in a Studio at the start of the TdF coverage. (Do they do this for any other sports?)
Oh and does anyone else have the urge to throw the remote contro lthroguh the telly when GMTV is on?Do Nellyphants count?
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I have no doubt that ITV has bolloxed up the RWC coverage but please spare a thought for your Australian cousins. ( well, I can hope ) Not only have we rolled over and been roundly stomped on by you lot, but if we want to watch the games we have to endure network 10's appalling coverage. If you see the coverage advertised to start at say
9-30pm, then you will endure 40-60mins of french cooking, "expert" discussions & endless advertising. When you finally give up thinking that you had read the program wrong and that perhaps the game is on another night and the show was just a filler you wake up in the morning to find you've missed the game of the tournament. By the way - for gods sake don't lose to the French!!! I have a fellow club member from Bordeaux who doesn't shut up as it is. If they go all the way I'll have to move somewhere quieter - like the Antarctic.0 -
Hard luck Quokka. Its a bad sign for us sports fans when even the most fervent sporting nation can't get the coverage right.
I think most events I've watched on anything other than the BBC have been rubbish. The Lions in NZ footage on Sky was embarassing as they over dramaticised the whole thing with Hollywood blockbuster style credits which looked ridiculous when we got whitewashed. Unfortunately it all seems to come down to money and any informed discussion and analysis gets shunted out of the way in favour of adverts. Its always a joy to watch the BBC pundits waffling on without interruption
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In defense of ITV F1 (and I much preferred BBC) Martin Brundle is worth a programe all on his own, and MarK Blundell is the perfect foil.0
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Just think of it this way guys. The BBC has lost most of it's traditional sport coverage to Sky. ITV is only interested in advertising revenue. So, they may lose even more viewers if they persist. What happens then?
Minority sports such as cycling may get a better look-in. One mans' loss is another mans' gain! 8)I say what I like and I like what I say!0
