How can the BBC provide 5 minutes of highlights from a 1-0 game between Reading v Bristol City in the Championship, showing all the major incidents, followed by 1 minute interviews with each manager, while ITV dedicate less time to all-Premier League clashes in the FA Cup?
ITV were the same when they had the PL highlights programme, The Premiership.
Even taking adverts out of the way, there was far more 'analysis' and far fewer highlights than Match of the Day has.
Tonight there was a matey chat with Neil Warnock and Gordon Strachan talking about what a long day they had had watching all the football and about Neil taking a break before coming back into football, and then another chat about when Warnock will stop using the pronoun "us" to refer to QPR.
Meanwhile they give about 3 minutes to Liverpool v Man Utd, QPR v Chelsea, and about 45 seconds to Bolton v Swansea. I was at the Reebok today and we hit the bar and had a blatant penalty ignored in injury time. We had 8 shots on target and forced 18 corners. In the time they allotted, they showed the 3 goals and Swansea hitting the post, giving the false impression it was a game of tight margins. There was even the 'story' of Darren Pratley scoring against the club he helped get promoted to the PL and he saluted the Swansea fans after he scored, they even edited that out.
Surely people tune in to watch actual football highlights, don't they?
Do they have their priorities wrong, or am I being overly critical?
Why are ITV so poor?
posted on 29/1/12
Corrie Street is pretty decent, though.
posted on 29/1/12
You messin ya gimp?
How old are you? 14?
Pretty sad that lad.
posted on 29/1/12
what's the matter with ya, cant ya see it's a classy drama when ya watch it?
posted on 29/1/12
About as much class as a bottle of blue nun and a kebab off the dirty spinning stick on a night out!
posted on 29/1/12
I hate ITV football.........BBC is OK....Sky is better and ESPN is pants......
posted on 29/1/12
Why are ITV so poor?
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Due to the credit crunch, advertising revenues are down 40%, so costcutting has resulted in slashing production costs and salaries and you get what you pay for.
Seriously though, I don't even bother watching ITV at all and wouldn't miss it if the number 3 was missing on my remote control!
posted on 29/1/12
The average IQ is 100 but ITV seems to think it's around the 75 mark.
posted on 29/1/12
We have Millwall or Southampton away ...
posted on 29/1/12
Wrong thread
posted on 30/1/12
ITV's coverage of football is a shambolic mess.
You have Adrian squashed hamster faced Chiles gurning at us making his supposedly funny comments about supporters eating pies and whatnot. Andy Bloomin Townsend who has the personality of a dead toad. Southgate offers up a bit of decent analysis but is limper than a geography teacher's handshake. And as for Clive "that night in barcellona" Tyldsley - well lets not go there as I'm trying to be nice.