Indeed that is as awarded in June 2018, I believe though that it's understood by all parties that packs F and G are able to be modified in advance of each season's start, especially for the 2021-2 season.
Can a round be a midweek round and also a bank holiday round, or are they mutually exclusive terms?
I'm sure Amazon will have considered this when making their bid, as it clearly benefits them to have both their matchdays in the Christmas shopping period - there's no point in them having a December midweek and then Easter...
Indeed that is as awarded in June 2018, I believe though that it's understood by all parties that packs F and G are able to be modified in advance of each season's start, especially for the 2021-2 season.
Given the crossover between productions, I'd imagine Amazon and BT aren't out to screw each other over in terms of their picks.
I don't think Live Streaming of Sports will be seen as good as on TV until the timelag issue is greatly reduced.
You’ve made this point before. It’s only an issue really if you’re live betting or if it’s a match of big significance and you can hear people nearby celebrating. Most people won’t realise or care.
Perhaps they do realise or care but are happy to put up with it in exchange for being able to see a handful of extra matches they might not otherwise get to see? While it's not quite good enough for every match, it's fine for a bonus (which is free or a sunk cost), and if latency is important then you can always watch it in the pub.
Good edits on Guy Mowbray and Steve Wilson's commentaries on MOTD tonight, if you didn't know you'd have no idea that they were live on Amazon and had co-commentators next to them.
Years ago I had the chance to watch the live MOTD feeds and about 90% of the time it felt like a normal commentary but every now and again when nothing was happening they'd say something to their producer or occasionally drift off mid-sentence. You could tell when there was a stat or fact they hoped would get in the edit because they'd mention it a few times during the game.
Drifting off into mid-sentence, actually helps in two ways
1. Alerts 'base' that, that particular passage of play has broken down (I.e ball booted out of play for a throw in, or a hopelessly ambitious pass and heads into the stands) and therefore, doesn't need attention for the edit.
2. Makes the next edit of play commentary easier if something important happens, as you have a 'clean in' to it.
Take it from me, having to do radio commentary edits for a few years, there's nothing worse than finding a suitable clip edit start point of a incident/goal when your commentator has been quietly rambling, and then mid-word, suddenly starts commentating loudly before a goal is scored. Broken flow, clipped words, little build-up.
Years ago I had the chance to watch the live MOTD feeds and about 90% of the time it felt like a normal commentary but every now and again when nothing was happening they'd say something to their producer or occasionally drift off mid-sentence. You could tell when there was a stat or fact they hoped would get in the edit because they'd mention it a few times during the game.
I used to see them in an old job and it was a nice perk of coming in on Saturdays! I used to read When Saturday Comes magazine and for a few years it seemed to encourage a conspiracy theory that the commentaries were dubbed on after, which was blatantly daft.