Channel 7 Coverage....

I'm bored watching Channel Sevens coverage of what appears to be a swim meet with a bit of rowing and bike racing thrown in. I know Australia has a strong swim team but there are nearly 500 Australians at the Olympics and they must be competing in something else.

I must have seen Cry Baby Thorpes 400m final 15 times yesterday along with repeats of several other swim heats. Is it just me or have channel seven got it a bit wrong? I switched to SBS and watched the beach volleyball and boxing which was much more interesting even though I didn't really care about the result.

Isn't the olympics about many sports and countries coming together, Let's see the swimming once and give the other Aussie competitors a go!:mad:

That's better....

HH.

Tell here is either ABC or OFF for the next 2 weeks, plenty of jobs need doin' or books need readin'..........

Not to mention the 1,000s of competitors from other countries in other sports that Australiaans are not competing in but still award medals. We're a nation of sport lovers - we don't just love ourselves.

Simon

And don't forget Channel 7 is the "home of rugby", which is why we got beach volleyball instead of South Africa v NZ on Saturday night and no free-to-air coverage at all of the Super 12 last season (won by a nice bunch of lads from Canberra :D ). I could stand the olympics coverage they are giving us if they gave us more than 5 minutes at a time and stopped continually promo'ing Home & Away!!!!

Hmmmph.

John

We're fortunate enough to get SBS, which has much wider coverage of sports other than swimming.

Yeah,

GO SBS.

I watched inner Botswana play Messopotamia in beach volleyball this morning!

Interesting to flick during "live" coverage between SBS and 7. 7 must be sending the signal the other way (by boat) 'cos it sometimes takes an hour or more to get here....particularly if some Ozzie swimmer is about to come eighth in a heat.

Oy Oy OY.

P

Yeah jshaw...:mad: :mad: :mad: What happened to that rugby? No Aussies so no viewing. No good.

GO Ladies Beach Volleyball! The spectator sport of the century...even Botswana v Messopotamia.

It's all to politicised. I wonder who will get gold for being the biggest drug cheat?
ernknot

Gee's you guys are worse then a bunch of women having a ***** :D

I think 7 are doing a fab-tabulous job. I was flicking between SBS and 7 when the mens and womens VERY long bike race was on and 7 were about a milli second behind in broadcasting.

Unsure what you guy's do through the day, but for me the TV is not on 24/7 and I can't be fagged staying up late to watch the swimming, so am thankful on the replay's thruout the evening. yeah after the 10th time its a bit much, but not everyone is at home at the same time, so the need for short replays is a must.

Can't remember which station did majority of broadcasting during the last olympics but I do remember it wasn't covering much at all. This year I have been able to watch gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, boxing, bikes, handball (or atleast I think its handball) one thing I missed was shooting.

And I think the blue healers ad is quite powerful with that song behind it. ;)
HA HA

:D

7 sucks...... big time..... I HATE the ads... :mad:
there's bludy thousands of 'em... SBS has them too, at about 1/17365549th
the rate that 7 does & 7 has all these dredged up "who the F are you?"
"sports commentators" :confused: that most of us ARE NOT interested in &
bug'ral of the actual events. (& who’s sick of Advance Australia Fair????)
I bet 7 had the job of selling the tickets to the stadiums too & that's why
everyone is at home watching SBS. :D

The beach volley ball on SBS was AWESOME, I nearly had an accident
doing the washing up last night ‘cos I was trying to watch & wash….
I even listened to it in the car on ABC Radio this arvo & it was nearly as good…
well, sort of… a bit… (I couldn’t get any other station on the car radio)

Hey gemi_babe !
Has anyone told you the truth about Thorpes?
He bats for your side…
that is, unless you bat for our side???
You don’t do you?
You are a real girl with a serious tool fetish aren’t you?
Opps !!! :eek: that came out wrong!!!
You know what I mean I’m sure… (I hope) :D

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Originally Posted by gemi_babe

Can't remember which station did majority of broadcasting during the last olympics but I do remember it wasn't covering much at all. This year I have been able to watch gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, boxing, bikes, handball (or atleast I think its handball) one thing I missed was shooting.

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It was Seven.

7 Stinks !
What about wieght lifting.
how did thorpe sign the pic they are flogging ?
ptc

Guys, forget beach volleyball (check my interests - VB is one of 'em)

Comparing beach and real indoor VB is like comparing Popstars and the beatles. Real VB has multiple hitters going in all directions in set plays to confuse blockers, deceptive setters and indepth strategy. Beach has chicks in bikinis.

It's quite sad really, whilst all our other sports have gone a bit downhill (in funding as well) since sydney, mens indoor volleyball is the only sport weve actually improved at by qualifying outright for the first time.

7pm tonight on SBS, perth time Australia play Russia in real volleyball. The captain is a local Esperance boy - Dan Howard and lefty Dave Ferguson is also from Perth. Watch it! I did for the first time at sydney and have been playing ever since.

Ramble mode - off.

I don't take an interest in sport generally so if there are ads during the Games, I will not see them. Anyone who takes an interest in the games, I am sorry your pleasurable viewing is polluted with ads.

The Games are to promote cooperation between nations and to promote world peace which is not happening at the moment. Our world leaders need to do more about world peace than throw a few dollars at the Olympic Games and shed a few tears when their country wins an event.

- Wood Borer

Co-operation between nations? Why is that notion always wheeled out during the olympics. It's all about competition between nations. Covering yourself and your country in glory whilst beating everyone else.

I watched the waterpolo and there didnt seem to be an cooperatin' goin on there.

Wake up and smell the roses.

Australia will always flood the media with Australian winners---- don't hold your breath, however to see coverage if they lose, especially coverage of the winners.

How much have we seen of Mike Diamond? Or the mens relay team? Did we see any coverage of the winners in those events?

Diamond was interviewed by Andrew Denton last night.

Seemed like a straight shooter to me.

- Wood Borer

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Seemed like a straight shooter to me.

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:rolleyes: :D

Dan

why has nobody complained about the lack of synchronised swimming coverage?? :rolleyes:

I guess there has been a lot of hype over the swimming these last few years, which is why its probably shown more. 7 figures more people will watch it.

Heard once from a friend in the US that their coverage focussed on their athletes, so they didnt see a lot of events like swimming etc... guess we arent much different down here too.

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why has nobody complained about the lack of synchronised swimming coverage?? :rolleyes:

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errrr....because it's silly? :D

HH

I think there's a bit more to it than all that. I was watching the other day and they were showing the gymnastics. No Australians competing while I was watching.

Of course they will give more time to sports where Australia is doing well. Which country doesn't? Maybe Britain because they're not doing well in anything :D

They also focus on the sports that are popular. There's hell of a lot going on and they can't show it all. Joe Punter would go ape if they didn't provide plenty of coverage of the things that interest him. Do a straw poll and see how many people really care about who's winning the shooting if it's not an Australian. I bet the answer is bugger all.

SBS has always set itself apart from mainstream TV. They are expected to show stuff the other channels don't so of course they do. Don't forget SBS was set up to cater for people from other countries. It's their charter to show foreign language programmes, foreign sports etc.

Personally, I don't bother with it much. I watch some of the highlights but I've got better things to do than sit in front of the TV. I just think that people expect too much of commercial TV. They give us what they think we want because they need to sell advertising and that means catering to the masses, not the enthusiasts.

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Originally Posted by LineLefty

Beach has chicks in bikinis.

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And the problem is ?

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why has nobody complained about the lack of synchronised swimming coverage??

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Because there's been plenty of synchronised diving to watch.

P :D

Dear Administrators,

For the next Olypiad the thought has crossed my mind that we could enter a synchronised woodworking team, eg: planing, routing, dovetailing (by hand of course) and looking at the content of this thread, we would be well qualified with a whining or bullsh!t team.
Back to something more serious.... :confused:

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Originally Posted by Iain

Dear Administrators,

For the next Olypiad the thought has crossed my mind that we could enter a synchronised woodworking team, eg: planing, routing, dovetailing (by hand of course) and looking at the content of this thread, we would be well qualified with a whining or bullsh!t team.
Back to something more serious.... :confused:

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In all seriousness, what the hell is an olympiad?

olympiad

\O*lym"pi*ad\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*[a^]d), n. [L. olympias, -adis, Gr. 'olympia`s, -a`dos, fr. 'O`lympos Olympus, a mountain in Macedonia: cf. F. olympiade.] (Greek Antiq.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor[oe]bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.