The Olympic Games Are Great, Pity About The TV Coverage
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Time for a rant again. The Olympic Games are great and the sportsmanship so far has been pretty good. The performances have been even better. When you start getting world records in heats and semi-finals you know you are going to be in for some great action in the finals.
Unfortunately, one of the things that irks me about big events such as this is the quality of the television coverage. I get really p**sed of when these same coverages then win awards at the end of the season. I can understand that, with so many events happening at the one time, that coverage can be difficult.
However, if I want to sit down and watch the gymnastics, or the equestrian, or perhaps even the swimming, then that is what I want to watch. At present we get snippets. A little bit of this and little bit of that. It can be very frustrating.
I don’t know how much of the Olympics the rest of the world are watching, or in what format. Here in Australia we are very backward when it comes to television broadcasting. Often you need to subscribe to pay tv if you want to watch anything decent.
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The Olympic broadcaster for Australia is the Seven Network. I am not sure about the rest of Oz, and I would love to hear from others, but I receive five different ‘channel 7’s’. We get the standard local channel 7 along with channel 7 HD. We also receive the new channel Seven-1, Seven-2 and Seven-3. Now to my rant. If Channel Seven can split into three broadcasts, why is they are not using this facility to deliver a much fuller coverage of the games.
One channel could deliver their snippet broadcast (as it does now) whilst the other two could be used to deliver extended broadcast of individual sports. Thankfully a second broadcaster is able to pick up some of the sporting events and does broadcast them in full – they even provide a schedule of what is going to be broadcast and at what time – the Seven Network seems to find that a little difficult as well.
The games are about the athletes and that is what I would love to see more of them. To all the athletes – all I can say good luck to them – Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie – oy oy oy – Go for Gold!
Me here in Malaysia are the same. Want to see the full coverage, PAY…………
It’s the same here in the states, too! It irritates me to no end that I can’t watch more than three or four routines in gymnastics before they change to synchronized diving for 10 minutes, then to swimming, then back to gymnastics. GRRRR!! They have some events on different pay cable stations, but it’s the same with them.
I don’t mind the coverage here in the States, I like seeing the multiple events. But, I would like to know better when the medal ceremonies are.
Too bad to hear it hen but at least you can still see. after all the internet is there to update everything..can be a little bit later though.
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@Connor:
I like seeing multiple events too and all, but it’d be nice to have the option of choosing which events I want to watch instead of having to pay for each individual channel to get to watch a specific sport going on.