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Television coverage bitch thread
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Or alternatively rename it "Phelps-Man-Love-Slo-Mo Replays of the XXIX Olympiad"
Seriously, the worst coverage ever of any sporting event in the history of the world.
7 shit me to tears
So are we going to stick him on the mantlepiece or hang him from a Christmas tree?
It would have to be a big tree, maybe Ch.7 could turn it into a Xmas Special
Can't believe the c*^t$ showed all the gymnastics and we miss the entire first half of the match!! Weak as piss.
....and don't you just love the superb camera-work and coverage in the Rowing.
At least half of the coverage dedicated to 19 angles of the boat coming first, aerial views that give false impressions of the actual placings, side on views that are too close to take in whole field and ridiculously biased Aussie commentators telling us that "we're in 3rd or 4th" when we are actually last (or "sixth").
Then when there's 50 meters to go, they drop the bombshell that the magnificent Aussies are unlikely to "meddle"
When it gets to this point, I long for the Aussies to "meddle" by firing a torpedo from their boat into the leaders, or better still, an ICBM into where-ever those poxy commentators are peddling their crap from.
A pox on you Channel 7 and may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your nether regions
At least half of the coverage dedicated to 19 angles of the boat coming first, aerial views that give false impressions of the actual placings, side on views that are too close to take in whole field and ridiculously biased Aussie commentators telling us that "we're in 3rd or 4th" when we are actually last (or "sixth").
Then when there's 50 meters to go, they drop the bombshell that the magnificent Aussies are unlikely to "meddle"
When it gets to this point, I long for the Aussies to "meddle" by firing a torpedo from their boat into the leaders, or better still, an ICBM into where-ever those poxy commentators are peddling their crap from.
A pox on you Channel 7 and may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your nether regions
Not sure who the woman was commentating the replay of the women's beach volleyball on Seven, but her voice has to be one of the more annoying and frustrating on tv. Not to mention her clear bias (yes I know we're in Australia), but there is no need to scream "go girls, get the next one, yes come on Aussies" etc etc. Just completely unprofessional for any commentator, Aussie or not, to be showing that level of bias.
“Unlikely to meddle” is apparently code for dead last by more than a boat length.
You meddling in this thread again?
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He is ze fuhrer! His authority shalt not be queztioned!You meddling in this thread again?
I call all mods "fuhrer" Weevil, don't worry
****in channel 7. A world record is set in the women's steeplechase. They showed the first lap then a long montage of ad followed by the last two laps. Disgraceful after non stop swimming for a week we finally get to good events and they pull this bullshit. They should just be given the opening and closing ceremonies, swimming tennis and soccer the rest should be shown on SBS. Then me might be able to see some of it
It's Kerri Pottarst a former beach volleyballer at the last few olympics. They clearly picked her on that basis alone and didnt give her any media training (well it sounds like it). Another great move by channel 7
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I call all mods "fuhrer" Weevil, don't worry
That’s Mr Fuhrer to you.
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Channel 7's a bitch.
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I was watching SBS last night and switching over during swaps of ends in the Tennis and timeouts in the volleyball and my count was 5 out of 6 times I was greeted with ads.
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rather then showing the 200m heats, they are showing the women’s triathlon
seven didn’t even show bolts heat live had to watch it on the net from Caribbean tv
god channel seven sucks at least nine have 2012 and hopefully they wont show bullshit sports
youd think in this day and age seven could show different sports on their HD channel
seven didn’t even show bolts heat live had to watch it on the net from Caribbean tv
god channel seven sucks at least nine have 2012 and hopefully they wont show bullshit sports
youd think in this day and age seven could show different sports on their HD channel
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Like most of us, I've been watching more TV than usual for the past week, what with the Olympics on and so many interesting ads to watch. Squinting through Beijing's pervasive smog, I've even been able to see some interesting sports as well.
This is the first Olympics in the era where Web video is unremarkable, multi-channel HDTV is commonplace, and online content is actually starting to resemble TV (witness the smooth, full-screen streaming video of the ABC's iView service).
So I have to say that I was expecting just a little more from the Seven Network's coverage, which could easily have used both online and offline channels to let us choose from dozens of simultaneous events to watch.
As I write, however, Seven is broadcasting the medals ceremony for the 100m men's backstroke — and is showing the same ceremony on all four of its SD and HDTV stations. At the same time, Seven's streaming portal is showing a postcard-sized video of the men's weightlifting of such poor quality that it looks like the smog has infiltrated indoors.
The portal also offers heavily edited, two- or three-minute clips of completed events featuring Australians in all kinds of sports. The overall effect is a resounding thud on the impress-me meter.
Every Olympics offers a unique broadcasting proposition: while they're heavily watched when they're happening, they will not be shown again after the event. Live Olympics events are exciting, but pirated videos of Olympic events will not be sold feverishly through backstreet markets and dodgy online retailers; heck, post-Olympic discounting rarely even manages to clear out all the leftover merchandise.
Yes, the value of Olympics coverage is in its immediacy and accessibility, and for this reason Olympics footage would have seemed like a natural candidate for experiments in multi-casting. Just consider the online coverage in the US, where as I write NBC's Olympics site appears to be worlds ahead of what we're getting Down Under.
I say "appears to be" because the video isn't available in Australia, and the usual public Web proxies refuse to handle the volume of video coming through the site. What I'm led to understand, however, is that NBC has teamed up with Microsoft to offer an interactive Olympics portal showing up to four live events simultaneously in crisp, clear quality.
The site's live video menu tells me that, were I in the US, I could be streaming the men's basketball preliminary match between Croatia and Russia, an Egypt-Russia handball face-off, softball between Taiwan and Canada, Greco-Roman wrestling (see Roy and HG on this subject below), men's individual sabre and 17 other sporting events.
Now, I understand that Seven has millions in advertising revenues to protect, and that most people are still happy to come home from work and plop on the couch for a few hours of heavily edited highlights packages. So we cheer, and do our part for the Team Previously Known As The Green And Gold.
But Seven really could have done a lot better in developing a multi-channel strategy to help people really enjoy the Olympics — their way. Believe it or not, there may even be some interesting sporting competitions that don't involve Australia — but we can pretty much forget about seeing them, unless (a) Seven can't find another medals ceremony to show; (b) Bruce McAvaney has the day off; and (c) the network has used up its footage of reporters eating nasty Chinese "delicacies".
If there ever was an opportunity for the network to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US — from which the network already sources shows such as Heroes and Lipstick Jungle — and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
Of course, NBC teamed up with Microsoft in the US to deliver its content using Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology — and in Australia, Microsoft long ago sided with the Nine Network, which pretty much rules out the Yahoo-affiliated Seven from tapping into this particular revolution. Yes, the networks are that petty.
Just look at the week-long ban on Nine, supported by the IOC-reinforced culture of fear around exclusivity of broadcast rights.
Let's not forget Telstra. Its Next G Olympics offer is as cutting-edge as we're going to get when it comes to these Games, with Seven-backed broadcasting rights letting the mobile carrier offer content packs to its Next G subscribers for a flat AU$10 or AU$4 per day.
For their money, subscribers get access to highlight packs — no doubt the same ones available through Yahoo's online site — and live, streaming video of Seven's TV coverage (curiously, the service isn't available on the iPhone, the one Next G device on which watching video is actually tolerable; this is one of many examples supporting my argument that Telstra and the iPhone aren't exactly a match made in Heaven).
That deal probably put lots of money into Seven's coffers — but what about the millions of Australians that aren't Next G subscribers? Anecdotes suggest major sporting events like the Olympics are a tipping point for many people to upgrade their TVs or embrace HDTV at last, but do services like this really convince people to change mobile providers? And if you were switching providers for the video, wouldn't you want to get an iPhone?
How many people really want to watch live video-on-demand on their mobile phones, anyway? Mobiles, if anything, are ideal for the highlight packs since I don't think many people will spend hours watching an Olympics soccer match in 2-inch SquintVision.
Seven is supposedly so serious about the internet that it bought its own wireless ISP.
Last October, I argued that deal could make Seven the next Telstra.
For now, however, Seven seems quite content to let Telstra remain as the next Telstra, while it remains the same old Seven it always was — but with a patina of online video to silence people who want to watch the Games events they want, when they want them.
Perhaps the problem is just that Seven had no incentive to shake the tree, so to speak, since it knows it won't be doing the Olympics broadcast in 2012 and saw no reason to explore the online multi-casting that would have been a sensation.
Hopefully, Nine and Foxtel have bigger, better things planned in four years. Until then, I'll just sit back and watch yet another medal ceremony on Seven — or trawl YouTube for other interesting sports like this, this and this.
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Liking the Triathon personally.
It's only the heats anyway to me but I can see why people would be keen to see it. Even though that does create a double standard from 7 who insisted on interrupting every bloody sport to show any swimming heat.
It's only the heats anyway to me but I can see why people would be keen to see it. Even though that does create a double standard from 7 who insisted on interrupting every bloody sport to show any swimming heat.
FFS i wanna see liu xiangs 110m hurdle heat.. he is the most popular athlete for the host country the crowd will be going nuts!
triathlon is an 'update' sport, watching the whole thing doesnt give the general public much more enjoyment then getting updates and watching the end
triathlon is an 'update' sport, watching the whole thing doesnt give the general public much more enjoyment then getting updates and watching the end
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