RTE generally just take the main broadcasters feed, unless it's an event with an Irish competitor. Then there's just as much studio waffle as BBC.
It was during the W 400m semi finals, probably the only reason we saw it.
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It was during the W 400m semi finals, probably the only reason we saw it.
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If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
The Baskatball commentary on RTE does my head in, he sounds far too aggressive and tries to say things like American basketball commentary but it doesn't sound right. "He shoots from down town but he's too far downtown to make it work" STFU dude.
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That is one big field.
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If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
He can be a legend all he wants he still needs to calm down while commentating.Timmy McCarthy
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As soon as I seen her today I thought of you Dave.
Wouldn’t be surprised if we seen you in the news in a few years for stalking her.
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I’m here for a slightly different point but I’ll answer this first. On a few occasions I’ve watched an hour or so of RTE and then watched the same period back on BBC (and vice versa). I think RTE has been a little better overall (and yes, for the discus and pole vault last night) but there are times that BBC has been better. Ireland has fewer athletes and even fewer with medal hopes so maybe RTE has more leeway to look at the big picture. Still, it does kinda feel like RTE fit the National-athlete/Narrative/Pre-recorded/Fluff bits around the action more and that the BBC do it the other way around.
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I’ve had reason to become very interested in some field events over the last couple of years so I’ve realised that TV coverage of the field events by the main feeds of broadcasters like RTE and BBC is awful. They are totally disjointed and the ‘highlights’ are used as filler between track events.
All the drama of watching an athlete’s struggle/progress through their competition is ruined by knowing that any clip you’re being shown has to be important for some reason. It’s like the main feed is, say a Tour de France stage, and every now and then they cut to a football match but you know the team in possession will score, back to the cycling but you can hear by the crowd noise in the football that someone has scored another goal, ten minutes later they cut to a rugby match and you now the team in possession will get a try, twenty minutes later they tell you the football match is over and here’s the winning goal and a missed penalty.
Goals are a vital part of football, but still only part of it. An athlete clearing a height is only part of a high jump competition. What height did they enter at, why? Why did they skip a height? Did they knock the bar because it’s early and they look nervous? Because they’re fatigued? Because of a minor, fixable issue? Because if you look at their face running up they never believed they could (true so often I wish I could bet on it)?
Every field event is like a movie/play/book. It’s a story and needs to be told like a story. With more effort put it it could make for really dramatic viewing. Rant over
Does anyone with access to ‘red button’ / additional channels / other countries coverage know if it is better elsewhere? Are there broadcasts/feeds that do a better job?
All the drama of watching an athlete’s struggle/progress through their competition is ruined by knowing that any clip you’re being shown has to be important for some reason. It’s like the main feed is, say a Tour de France stage, and every now and then they cut to a football match but you know the team in possession will score, back to the cycling but you can hear by the crowd noise in the football that someone has scored another goal, ten minutes later they cut to a rugby match and you now the team in possession will get a try, twenty minutes later they tell you the football match is over and here’s the winning goal and a missed penalty.
Goals are a vital part of football, but still only part of it. An athlete clearing a height is only part of a high jump competition. What height did they enter at, why? Why did they skip a height? Did they knock the bar because it’s early and they look nervous? Because they’re fatigued? Because of a minor, fixable issue? Because if you look at their face running up they never believed they could (true so often I wish I could bet on it)?
Every field event is like a movie/play/book. It’s a story and needs to be told like a story. With more effort put it it could make for really dramatic viewing. Rant over
Does anyone with access to ‘red button’ / additional channels / other countries coverage know if it is better elsewhere? Are there broadcasts/feeds that do a better job?
Eurosport has been my go to for watching things. No pointless talking in the studio, only issue has been the adverts but still preferable.
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Missed Mijain Lopez's gold medal in the wrestling the other night - did that get any coverage on the BBC? Fair to say there's not many people in the UK interested in Greco-Roman wrestling, but a fifth sequential gold medal is an insane achievement in such a physical sport.
Left his shoes on the mat as a finisher.
Left his shoes on the mat as a finisher.
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