He must really like motorsport then. If he hadn't continued with it I suspect Craig Doyle may have been the most likely to cover it - didn't he do some motor sport at the BBC?
P.S. The Diamond League hardly worth it if they're only broadcasting the UK events on BBC1/2 and four events on BBC3, with everything else on the red button - and seemingly not on the iPlayer. They could at least show an hour of highlights on BBC2 after each event - they could easily find time for it, and the IAAF produce a ready made highlights show for rights holders.
Haha, love the fact that the Mirror's online article had to be corrected by a poster underneath in three important respects. Did "Kate McMahon" bother to check any of the facts about that story?
Meant to bring this up last weekend but rather than taking the Eurovision thread off topic though I'd mention here about the BBC had full width lower fifth graphics on the golf last weekend for data supplied by Genworth Financial Statistics - rather than something the size of the IBM logo which we're used to seeing. It was brief with the logo fading quickly to reveal the stats, but surprised the BBC allowed such a thing.
I assume it's a regular thing on the European PGA Golf, but as the BBC were using their own graphics for the tournament I'd have thought they'd have either done a bodge job in trying to hide it or generated their own version with a logo more the size we're used to seeing.
I only saw the interactive coverage so don't know if this was used on the main coverage on BBC1/2, but it did seem very commercial for the BBC.
I see that rugby union commentator Nick Mullins has left the BBC. He's off the ESPN as lead commentator for its Guinness Premiership coverage next season.
A bit of a loss for the Beeb . . . he's covered quite a few England Six Nations matches in recent years, as well as some Olympics/Commonwealth Games stuff. Presumably a few of the nations' rugby commentators will now step up for the Six Nations . . . the likes of Gareth Charles, Bill Johnstone and maybe even good old Jim Neilly.
sky sports test cricket coverage is so boring, and there's no clear feed of this, so every other broadcaster has to use their dirty feed.
In the same way that Sky have to use the dirty feed of Channel 9'S cricket coverage of Australian home tests*
In the same way that Sky have to use the dirty feed of SABC's coverage of South African home tests*
In the same way that Sky have to use the dirty feed of Numbus coverage of Indian home tests*
Putting out dirty feeds of matches is not unique.
And Sky Sports cricket coverage is not 'boring' (the actual game to you may be, but not the tv coverage)compared to the BBC and even Channel 4's coverage, Sky is miles better
* - not involving England
I think for those that can see it on Sky cricket is just non stop now. England have gone from their Winter Test series to the T20 World Cup to the summer test series in the space of a month - and I expect there will be something in the schedule between the end of the summer tests and beginning of The Ashes too. And Sky Sports cover the lot - perhaps they're even bored of it now.
I think for those that can see it on Sky cricket is just non stop now. England have gone from their Winter Test series to the T20 World Cup to the summer test series in the space of a month - and I expect there will be something in the schedule between the end of the summer tests and beginning of The Ashes too. And Sky Sports cover the lot - perhaps they're even bored of it now.
I think this is partly why Channel 4's coverage was so good. They came back refreshed and reinvigorated each summer, making hugely innovative coverage. The same is true of Five now, who make the perfect highlights package, mixing features, analysis, the story of the day and all the main action, to the right balance. This was something that Sunset + Vine never got right with C4 (I remember their highlights being quite good in 1999, but the narrative style took over in 2000 and gradually became the Mark Nicholas Show). The other thing that I like about Five is that they are willing to talk about all cricket stories that come up and should be talked about, not just the England games that they have the rights to. You could imagine C4 ignoring the World T20 victory completely, and not mentioning the county matchfixing story. Even though Five have only 45 minutes to play with, they managed to fit all of these in. I just wish that they would pull their finger out and bid for some winter highlights too.