BR
So annoying it has no schedule - would be really useful both for live and delayed coverage.
TVNZ seem to be offering more coverage than the BBC - three TV channels (1, Duke and Games Extra) plus an additional online stream. Seven in Australia are offering 2 TV channels plus every Aussie team event in their free app and up to 20 live streams in their paid app.
TVNZ seem to be offering more coverage than the BBC - three TV channels (1, Duke and Games Extra) plus an additional online stream. Seven in Australia are offering 2 TV channels plus every Aussie team event in their free app and up to 20 live streams in their paid app.
JU
*with commercials
TVNZ seem to be offering more coverage than the BBC - three TV channels (1, Duke and Games Extra) plus an additional online stream. Seven in Australia are offering 2 TV channels plus every Aussie team event in their free app and up to 20 live streams in their paid app.
*with commercials
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JA
A bit **** when BBC1 and the red button channel are showing the SAME thing, like they are right now.
BR
Interesting to see them using LEXI for the Parasport events in the athletics - first time I've seen it used on UK TV somewhere other than C4.
Also note no Bob Ballard on the diving - first time he hasn't commentated at the games since 1994. Katherine Downes doing a pretty decent job though.
Also note no Bob Ballard on the diving - first time he hasn't commentated at the games since 1994. Katherine Downes doing a pretty decent job though.
Last edited by Brekkie on 12 April 2018 6:41pm
BR
So after a pretty decent games Channel 7 in Australia ended their coverage tonight by apologising for the appalling closing ceremony, reiterating it was the choice of the ceremony organisers, not Seven, not to show the athletes entering the stadium and the flag bearer, and that in fact the ceremony was so bad many spectators and athletes had walked out half way through. Can't find a UK viewable video of it - Seven even put the hosts comments up on Twitter, but the video is geoblocked.
Truly was an awful closing ceremony, but otherwise the Commonwealth Games are always more watchable in reality than they are on paper.
As for the BBC coverage - firstly Clare Balding has gone AWOL this weekend - guessing she might have been at Aintree for the National. However putting them side by side for me has proven that Gabby Logan is actually far superior when it comes to these sort of events - just a much more natural presenter whose enthusiasm for events comes over as far less patronising. She seems to have a far greater grasp of a multitude of sports too.
Hazel rather strangely went home a day early "to prepare for the snooker", which meant a last minute substitution into the presenter team of Jess Creighton, who from what I've seen (I'm watching this mornings coverage now) did a pretty decent job. Katherine Downes has also impressed me these games firstly with her diving commentary and today getting the lead role to commentate on the Closing Ceremony. Only ever really seen her read the sports news before, but she is potentially a future asset for BBC Sport.
As for BBC coverage overall - Salford wasn't an issue at all. Far better to have major events presented from a professional studio environment and although I'd have put one or two key presenters in the Gold Coast to anchor events from the stadia I think what they did in Salford was fine.
The real problem was the overnight anchoring on the Gold Coast. JJ Chalmers proved himself as he did in the Paralympics as a natural host of such things, but sticking him and Hazel on a seemingly random beach was a disservice to the games and to the viewers. It may have worked for Dan Walker on BBC4, but not for the main coverage on BBC1. Really they need a studio to anchor things from and welcome guests - or at the very least if they are going for the roving option at least anchor events in the heart of the action as happened in Sochi and Rio. It just made things look unprofessional and cheap being anchored on a windy beach.
One last thought presenter wise is Jason Mohammed did a very decent job in the afternoon slot rounding up the best of the rest, though everytime Holly Hamilton joined him to round up the thoughts of Social Media I couldn't help but think of The Mash Report.
Finally one of my early complaints was the apparent lack of red button coverage and certainly in the early stages it did seem like content was deliberately not being made available when it could have been, but towards the end of the games seemed less of an issue, possibly as it was likely they were committed to showing medal events. I still think at the very least they should have used BBC Parliament for the period considering the timing worked well just to double up the linear red button offering but if they are conciously moving towards the connected red button (which arguably they should) will be interesting to see if they limit the Wimbledon offering to one stream in the summer too.
Quote:
“Look, we understand many people have been disappointed by tonight’s Closing Ceremony,” (host Basil) Zempilas told viewers. “To be perfectly honest Jo, so have we. It hasn’t really lived up to expectations. I’ve got to say it’s about the only thing they got wrong. They did get it wrong tonight.”
“I’m sorry, you’re being way too polite,” Griggs told her co-host. “People are thinking that Channel Seven has chosen not to show pictures of athletes or not to show the flag bearer, Kurt Fearnley ... We can only show the pictures that are provided by the actual host broadcasters. They made the decision not to have athletes enter the stadium. I’m furious. Actually wrecking a tradition that is so important ... You want to see the athletes come in. You want to see them jumping in front of camera. You want to see them celebrating 11 days of great sport. We missed out on all of that.”
“There’s no athletes in here. I’ve never seen the stadium so empty,” she said.
Zempilas agreed — and slammed the formalities of the evening, which included a long presentation promoting 2022 host city Birmingham, as “self-indulgent”.
“We’ve never seen a stadium as empty as this. So soon after the conclusion of a Closing Ceremony,” he said. “To be brutally honest, most of the athletes left during the ceremony. The speeches — look, we understand the dignitaries need to get their messages out there, including the Birmingham presentation. [But] They were way too long tonight. Way too long. Dare I say, a little self-indulgent.”
http://www.news.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/james-weir-recaps-the-commonwealth-games-2018-closing-ceremony/news-story/671db0fcf52efb70f60542234032915d
“I’m sorry, you’re being way too polite,” Griggs told her co-host. “People are thinking that Channel Seven has chosen not to show pictures of athletes or not to show the flag bearer, Kurt Fearnley ... We can only show the pictures that are provided by the actual host broadcasters. They made the decision not to have athletes enter the stadium. I’m furious. Actually wrecking a tradition that is so important ... You want to see the athletes come in. You want to see them jumping in front of camera. You want to see them celebrating 11 days of great sport. We missed out on all of that.”
“There’s no athletes in here. I’ve never seen the stadium so empty,” she said.
Zempilas agreed — and slammed the formalities of the evening, which included a long presentation promoting 2022 host city Birmingham, as “self-indulgent”.
“We’ve never seen a stadium as empty as this. So soon after the conclusion of a Closing Ceremony,” he said. “To be brutally honest, most of the athletes left during the ceremony. The speeches — look, we understand the dignitaries need to get their messages out there, including the Birmingham presentation. [But] They were way too long tonight. Way too long. Dare I say, a little self-indulgent.”
http://www.news.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/james-weir-recaps-the-commonwealth-games-2018-closing-ceremony/news-story/671db0fcf52efb70f60542234032915d
Truly was an awful closing ceremony, but otherwise the Commonwealth Games are always more watchable in reality than they are on paper.
As for the BBC coverage - firstly Clare Balding has gone AWOL this weekend - guessing she might have been at Aintree for the National. However putting them side by side for me has proven that Gabby Logan is actually far superior when it comes to these sort of events - just a much more natural presenter whose enthusiasm for events comes over as far less patronising. She seems to have a far greater grasp of a multitude of sports too.
Hazel rather strangely went home a day early "to prepare for the snooker", which meant a last minute substitution into the presenter team of Jess Creighton, who from what I've seen (I'm watching this mornings coverage now) did a pretty decent job. Katherine Downes has also impressed me these games firstly with her diving commentary and today getting the lead role to commentate on the Closing Ceremony. Only ever really seen her read the sports news before, but she is potentially a future asset for BBC Sport.
As for BBC coverage overall - Salford wasn't an issue at all. Far better to have major events presented from a professional studio environment and although I'd have put one or two key presenters in the Gold Coast to anchor events from the stadia I think what they did in Salford was fine.
The real problem was the overnight anchoring on the Gold Coast. JJ Chalmers proved himself as he did in the Paralympics as a natural host of such things, but sticking him and Hazel on a seemingly random beach was a disservice to the games and to the viewers. It may have worked for Dan Walker on BBC4, but not for the main coverage on BBC1. Really they need a studio to anchor things from and welcome guests - or at the very least if they are going for the roving option at least anchor events in the heart of the action as happened in Sochi and Rio. It just made things look unprofessional and cheap being anchored on a windy beach.
One last thought presenter wise is Jason Mohammed did a very decent job in the afternoon slot rounding up the best of the rest, though everytime Holly Hamilton joined him to round up the thoughts of Social Media I couldn't help but think of The Mash Report.
Finally one of my early complaints was the apparent lack of red button coverage and certainly in the early stages it did seem like content was deliberately not being made available when it could have been, but towards the end of the games seemed less of an issue, possibly as it was likely they were committed to showing medal events. I still think at the very least they should have used BBC Parliament for the period considering the timing worked well just to double up the linear red button offering but if they are conciously moving towards the connected red button (which arguably they should) will be interesting to see if they limit the Wimbledon offering to one stream in the summer too.
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Finally one of my early complaints was the apparent lack of red button coverage and certainly in the early stages it did seem like content was deliberately not being made available when it could have been, but towards the end of the games seemed less of an issue, possibly as it was likely they were committed to showing medal events. I still think at the very least they should have used BBC Parliament for the period considering the timing worked well just to double up the linear red button offering but if they are conciously moving towards the connected red button (which arguably they should) will be interesting to see if they limit the Wimbledon offering to one stream in the summer too.
I don’t think they could justify the cost of another linear red button service. The overnight BBC1 coverage was getting at most 200k viewers in the very small hours and I suspect another red button service would have barely registered a few thousand. It just wouldn’t be worth it.
Intrigued by these closing ceremony complaints, did the BBC mention it being particularly lacklustre?
Finally one of my early complaints was the apparent lack of red button coverage and certainly in the early stages it did seem like content was deliberately not being made available when it could have been, but towards the end of the games seemed less of an issue, possibly as it was likely they were committed to showing medal events. I still think at the very least they should have used BBC Parliament for the period considering the timing worked well just to double up the linear red button offering but if they are conciously moving towards the connected red button (which arguably they should) will be interesting to see if they limit the Wimbledon offering to one stream in the summer too.
I don’t think they could justify the cost of another linear red button service. The overnight BBC1 coverage was getting at most 200k viewers in the very small hours and I suspect another red button service would have barely registered a few thousand. It just wouldn’t be worth it.
Intrigued by these closing ceremony complaints, did the BBC mention it being particularly lacklustre?