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14th August 2008, 06:31 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Unhappy with Channel 7's coverage?
Unhappy with Channel 7's coverage of the games.
The 'action line' is : 1300737507.
My gripe is:I don't care what type of dog these swimmers have at home, how many pictures Granpa has on the wall and I'm not really into digital recreations of sports- JUST SHOW US PEOPLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED THE RACES, WHEN WE GET HOME!
I appreciate the difficulty of a single parent raising a champion swimmer but to hear that a lady was 'both mother and husband' to one of our gold medalists was a bit much.
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14th August 2008, 06:55 PM #2
It's the same every 4 years, crap parochial (sp?) coverage and too many adds and too much of the stuff you are talking about. SWMBO's p'o'ed because they only showed 2 Australian dressage tests last night, no international ones. Surely with 3 sd digital channels they could broadcast something different on each one?
What is the number for? do you get to speak to a human?
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14th August 2008, 07:31 PM #3.
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A little birdie told me they do this so they can pay a reduced licence fee to the olympics. Payment is by volume of material telecast so the less sport and the more crap they transmit the cheaper it is. I'm not a big TV watcher but some more of the sports (often with no aussies in them) would be worth a look.
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14th August 2008, 07:46 PM #4
Hi CP,
I don't give much of a toss about any of it to tell you the truth, partly because of the boring,repetitive, parochial coverage and partly because I think that to achieve that level of competitiveness to get to the Olympics you must be an obsessed human being.
Why celebrate compulsive/obsessive behaviour?
BTW The red phone keeps on keeping on.
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14th August 2008, 08:23 PM #5.
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14th August 2008, 08:28 PM #6Senior Member
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There was a lot of flack on 2UE this mornIng about the mundane attitude of Bruce Macavaney, like not getting excited about winning gold medals,etc,etc
Dejavu creeping in or nothing to get inspired about?. I think the latter.
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14th August 2008, 08:37 PM #7
im just sick of the replays i dont need to see Stephanie rice win the 200m medaly every half hour.
what about the rest of the sports.
i would like to see the equestrain events for one.
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14th August 2008, 08:44 PM #8
Gee, I think I have strayed into the WHINGING POMS formum by mistake!!!!!
Growing old is much better than the alternative!
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14th August 2008, 08:53 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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15th August 2008, 12:02 AM #10
One reason why I'm not watching 7 for the olympics, that a tonne of other reasons I could rant on about.
But, SBS - brilliant!
Sport and nothing else, no replays over and over again, no mindless boring brain numbing swimming, all the 'lesser sports' that 7 poo poos, and it's got foreigners playing in them - not just Aussies.
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15th August 2008, 12:44 AM #11You've got to risk it to get the biscuit
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hmm, sick of watching swimming!!! and repeats!!!
the hockey coverage aint bad except for when they cut to another sport or an add break
hey wiesy - i watched some of the equestrian the other day...never again its worse than watching golfS T I R L O
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15th August 2008, 12:48 AM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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I am not unhappy with Channel sevens coverage: I have not seen any.
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15th August 2008, 01:13 AM #13
You get what you pay for , how much does the seven telecast cost you
I have no idea what seven are allowed to telecast from the olympics , do you , how much did they pay and what events can they cover , I don't know , figuer they are doing their best , if you can do better I guess you would be running a major TV stuido
Personally I like the weightlifting so have been watching sbs , but when the Aussies are performing the I go to seven they seem to cover most sports the Aussies are inAshore
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
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15th August 2008, 07:20 AM #14
Hopefully, oneday the olympics will be broadcast over a service with multiple channels where you can tune in to the "Archery" channel for example!
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15th August 2008, 11:41 AM #15GOLD MEMBER
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Have just about worn out the knobs for 7 and SBS on my remote - when the mindless carp of adverts comes on I start my olympic sport of the fastest finger in the East.
I understand what pays for the program - but really, I hope that the boring, mindless, intelligence insulting rubbish which passes for advertising which is supposed to inform, influence your choices and encourage you to purchase continues - Yep, you read that correctly - continues - why because it save me lots of $$$$. Bear in mind that all of the childish, repetitive, catering to the lowest denominator costs heaps and that cost is added to the purchase price of what is being sold, whether that is a physical product or service provided.
Anyone who annoys me enough with their pathetic efforts automatically goes onto my do not go near/support/purchase list. You want my patronage, improve your act, be informative, be encouraging, make me want to purchase or at least convince me that it would be a good idea.
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