Why not get a subscription to the unmentioned broadcaster if it's so important to you? I must admit I barely watch any of those other sports, they just don't interest me anyway and I have plenty of access to them. Perhaps your son would have the same attitude anyway.
I would cancel a subscription to ANY sports broadcaster that had sole rights to Formula 1.
But I agree..the BBC did a phenomenal job with the Olympics.
You could always connect your laptop to you TV and stream all live sports for free on www.wiziwig.tv
You don't have to line Ruperts pockets and your family get exposed to wonderful sports like golf and tennis and great sportsmen like Andy Murray!
OP. Agree with pretty much everything you've said. It's not just the BBC, (although I do think they should invest a lot more of the licence fee into sport) it'd be nice to see more sport on all of the terestrial channels. With Freeview now it doesn't even need to be on one of the five main channels, for example, ITV4 have done a good job with the Tour de France for years and are now showing the Vuelta. Think they also showed the French Open tennis this year as well as football and a few other sports.
Cost cutting is the BBC problem.
The bigwigs think losing sport is better than losing some rubbish "youth" channel with crabby programmes.
If the BBC ditched half the dross the produce for BBC 3 and 4 and reinvested that money they'd easily be able to get coverage of more sports and also be able to retain shows like Last of the Summer Wine. Unfortunately because its not getting the viewing figures from the right demographic (i.e. twenty somethings like myself) it gets cut.
Couple that with their very biased news reporting and good old MotD and you've fairly soild grounds for claiming the whole corporation needs investigating considering part of their charter states that they be impartial. The same charter which lays out their public funding.
NBC had the exclusive rights to The Olympics in America. The coverage was diabolical. The vast majority of events were recorded and shown in the evenings. Even the 100m Final was not shown live.
Fox Soccer have great coverage of the PL for less than a fiver month !.
When I lived in the UK the Sky coverage was excellent. Only problem was the price. If viewers refused to pay the crazy fees, Sky would have to charge less and bid less in fees for the rights. The only losers would be the overpaid greedy players.
WF, you want to watch it pasting extracts from Melanie Phillips's column on here and passing them off as your own, she sues you know!
i find it somewhat insulting that the BBC take a morale standpoint about there olympics coverage, and how it should "inspire" us to take up sport
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Surely they're suggesting that we should be inspired by the achievements of the Olympians, get off our backsides, leave the house and actively partake in sport?
I'm not sure I ever needed to be able to see cricket , football, rugby, golf etc. on TV (or now the internet) in order to be able to partake.
?
WF- BBC4 Dross? I don't think so- it's the most intelligent channel by a mile, that and BBC2. But I agree 3 and 1 are pretty dross.
I see what ur sayin finlay, but I think uve missed my point, what im sayin is, if theymaybe showed some sports we all wanted to watch all the time, then maybe we would all be 'inspired'
Basically, if a sport gets high viewing figures the bbc shoukd be showing it, as thats what we pay our licence fee for
I see. Fair enough Clegg. As kids we were inspired to go out in the drizzle by our sporting heroes - Daly Thompson, Ian Botham, Bjorn Borg, Steve Ovett, Glen Hoddle. Or stay in - Eric Bristow, Jimmy White.
My God I'm old!
I get your point.
I remember watchin andy caddick destroy the windies, I loved cricket from then on
Exiled, I have no idea who Melanie Phillips so definitely not a copy-paste!
Madnot, your right I'm probably being abit harsh on BBC4. In my defence that comes from having pretty much given up watching anything on the BBC other than Top Gear and the likes of New Tricks and Inspector George Gently. Both of which are examples of the sort of quality TV they should put more money in to.
Melanie is, um, a rare voice of reason and moderation, battling against the far-left bias of the liberal elite. I don't think.
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posted on 4/9/12
Why not get a subscription to the unmentioned broadcaster if it's so important to you? I must admit I barely watch any of those other sports, they just don't interest me anyway and I have plenty of access to them. Perhaps your son would have the same attitude anyway.
posted on 4/9/12
I would cancel a subscription to ANY sports broadcaster that had sole rights to Formula 1.
posted on 4/9/12
But I agree..the BBC did a phenomenal job with the Olympics.
posted on 4/9/12
You could always connect your laptop to you TV and stream all live sports for free on www.wiziwig.tv
You don't have to line Ruperts pockets and your family get exposed to wonderful sports like golf and tennis and great sportsmen like Andy Murray!
posted on 4/9/12
OP. Agree with pretty much everything you've said. It's not just the BBC, (although I do think they should invest a lot more of the licence fee into sport) it'd be nice to see more sport on all of the terestrial channels. With Freeview now it doesn't even need to be on one of the five main channels, for example, ITV4 have done a good job with the Tour de France for years and are now showing the Vuelta. Think they also showed the French Open tennis this year as well as football and a few other sports.
posted on 4/9/12
Cost cutting is the BBC problem.
The bigwigs think losing sport is better than losing some rubbish "youth" channel with crabby programmes.
posted on 4/9/12
If the BBC ditched half the dross the produce for BBC 3 and 4 and reinvested that money they'd easily be able to get coverage of more sports and also be able to retain shows like Last of the Summer Wine. Unfortunately because its not getting the viewing figures from the right demographic (i.e. twenty somethings like myself) it gets cut.
Couple that with their very biased news reporting and good old MotD and you've fairly soild grounds for claiming the whole corporation needs investigating considering part of their charter states that they be impartial. The same charter which lays out their public funding.
posted on 4/9/12
NBC had the exclusive rights to The Olympics in America. The coverage was diabolical. The vast majority of events were recorded and shown in the evenings. Even the 100m Final was not shown live.
Fox Soccer have great coverage of the PL for less than a fiver month !.
When I lived in the UK the Sky coverage was excellent. Only problem was the price. If viewers refused to pay the crazy fees, Sky would have to charge less and bid less in fees for the rights. The only losers would be the overpaid greedy players.
posted on 4/9/12
WF, you want to watch it pasting extracts from Melanie Phillips's column on here and passing them off as your own, she sues you know!
posted on 4/9/12
i find it somewhat insulting that the BBC take a morale standpoint about there olympics coverage, and how it should "inspire" us to take up sport
-------------------------------------
Surely they're suggesting that we should be inspired by the achievements of the Olympians, get off our backsides, leave the house and actively partake in sport?
I'm not sure I ever needed to be able to see cricket , football, rugby, golf etc. on TV (or now the internet) in order to be able to partake.
?
posted on 4/9/12
WF- BBC4 Dross? I don't think so- it's the most intelligent channel by a mile, that and BBC2. But I agree 3 and 1 are pretty dross.
posted on 4/9/12
I see what ur sayin finlay, but I think uve missed my point, what im sayin is, if theymaybe showed some sports we all wanted to watch all the time, then maybe we would all be 'inspired'
Basically, if a sport gets high viewing figures the bbc shoukd be showing it, as thats what we pay our licence fee for
posted on 4/9/12
I see. Fair enough Clegg. As kids we were inspired to go out in the drizzle by our sporting heroes - Daly Thompson, Ian Botham, Bjorn Borg, Steve Ovett, Glen Hoddle. Or stay in - Eric Bristow, Jimmy White.
My God I'm old!
I get your point.
posted on 4/9/12
Brian Jacks!
posted on 4/9/12
I remember watchin andy caddick destroy the windies, I loved cricket from then on
posted on 5/9/12
Exiled, I have no idea who Melanie Phillips so definitely not a copy-paste!
Madnot, your right I'm probably being abit harsh on BBC4. In my defence that comes from having pretty much given up watching anything on the BBC other than Top Gear and the likes of New Tricks and Inspector George Gently. Both of which are examples of the sort of quality TV they should put more money in to.
posted on 5/9/12
Melanie is, um, a rare voice of reason and moderation, battling against the far-left bias of the liberal elite. I don't think.
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