ITV World Cup v BBC World Cup

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david16 6 June 2002 12:28am

MARKSM74 posted:

Andrew posted:

mromega posted:

Comparing, in my opinion

Graphics - BBC win, they just look better, cleaner and fresher.

Studio - ITV win, The BBC studio looks awful. Compare it to the awesome set they had for WC98, it looks like a reject from a school design competition.

Commentators = BBC win, but not for the TV commentators. Using interactive I always select the 5Live commentary, even Jonathan Pearce was good today.
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I selected the FiveLive commentary yesterday, and they wern't even covering the match. It was some bloke talking to a guest about miscellanious subjects!

I was a bit surprised by this. This morning I tuned into Five Live in the car on the way to work and they weren't covering the Russia v Tunisia game (although they did say it was very uneventful so probably not missing much, especially the first half). The BBC claim Five Live are covering every game live. Maybe it was on 5L Sports Extra and they were including that.

The listed events must surely apply to radio as well as TV as the BBC are clearly breaking the rules by using 5 Live Sports Extra which is not Free to Air to everybody who doesn't have access to a TV 24 hours a day, digital radio or internet access.

I do applaud the BBC's intent to switch more of their sports action to their digital services, if people are going to move from the traditional anlogue platform to digital platform, but at this early stage it's the wrong thing to do to switch too many world cup matches on the wireless onto their digital radio service.

BR

Brekkie 6 June 2002 12:53am

The ITV theme wins hands down - it indicates the oriental locations far more than the BBCs.

At the end of BBC programmes (def. highlights / unsure about live coverage), they show highlights, squeeze them into a slanted rectangle (of reasonable size), and then play the theme (or other song) for 30secs before switching the scene to a Next Match on BBC1 (BBC One written in old style, but thats for a different thread) caption, and zooming out again.

It's as if the credits are intended to appear on the left - but they never do.

Is it beginning to annoy anyone else?

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 6 June 2002 1:04am

Yeh I did notice that. One thing that does annoy me about the excellent ITV coverage is that slide at the end. They have the closing titles, and then a slide comes up that says a Carlton/ISN presentation with an empty generic end credits thing at the side.

Bit pointless really.

MA

Matt_1 6 June 2002 11:38am

Brekkie Boy 2001 posted:

Also, the on-screen clocks/scores on both channels are very bad - ITV and BBC had got it right in the following format:

i t v Country 0
00:00 Country 0

but now have dropped it in favour of ITV's giant aston and the BBC strip aston. Abbreviating is not suitable, especially for the World Cup - they are not even using obvious abbreviations.

For these 'score-boxes' if the channels insist on using them at all, the teams must be abbreviated (even domestically too) and there's no need for the channel DOG. Otherwise they just become too big (c.f. ITV's current world cup score-box - it's far too big and distracts from the match action). FYI, I believe BBC/ITV are using ISO standardised country abbreviations, which is why some of them aren't immediately decipherable.

Better still ditch the old score/clock graphic in favour of the (existing) large score/clock shown every 10 minutes as a full size aston.

(June 2002)