AO tv coverage

[Russian]

Really? Where is that. I would be very surprised the scum at Seven would let us have the finals live.

Yeah that's only Adelaide and Brisbane. Perth still have to wait 3 hours.

 

[smoovy]

Channel 7's lead in to a match:

Return from an ad break, 10 second pointless interview with the two players, players are introduced onto the court, ad break. They come back, funnily enough just commence their warm up (gee, must have sat in their chaires for a while ), hit for a few minutes and then we have yet another ad break.

Between Griggs stuffing up every players name, the cringeworthy interviews, the commentators, all the ads, is this the worst tennis coverage in the world?

9 did a pretty good job when they deceived us at Wimbledon this year pretending matches were live when they clearly were not. So much so that media watch called them out.

Learnings from this...9 and 7 suck and is why I will continually fork out for Foxtel.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Home and Away returns on the 25th, so unless second week night sessions are going to start at 7:30pm everyone will be getting the shaft regardless of time zone.

 

[matt_897]

Home and Away returns on the 25th, so unless second week night sessions are going to start at 7:30pm everyone will be getting the shaft regardless of time zone.

Those night session do start 7.30

 

[JuddyBuddy]

Home and Away returns on the 25th, so unless second week night sessions are going to start at 7:30pm everyone will be getting the shaft regardless of time zone.

Yep, TV Guide confirms it - http://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv-guide/index.html?hour=17&min=14&date=17&mon=01&year=2010&next=1264399200

Ah, 7 really know how to annoy viewers. Wait til the second week of the tournament to pull this shit. Seriously, can't H&A wait just one more ****ing week.

 

[eastaugh36]

Something that comes up every year, why do they insist on showing an exhibition tournament during the day when serious matches are going on at the Sydney international??

 

[damochandler]

did 7 show the charity day event at all. geez those events are good fun to watch

 

[Rohan25]

No Foxtel coverage is seriously disappointing. So often the night match on MCA was preferable to channel 7's feature match. And on the days I went to the tennis, you could go home at night and be guaranteed a replay of the best match you saw that day. So now we have no coverage of the outside courts during the day, and no overnight replays of other matches. This is a big loss to TV viewers.

Something tells me by the end of this tournament, I will be so sick of hearing about Courtney Cox's new TV show that I wouldn't watch it for a million dollars.

 

[Xtreme]

Hate how they're making the first match the Maria Sharapova show..... there is another player on the opposite side of the net!!!!

 

[McLeodMagic]

No Foxtel coverage is seriously disappointing. So often the night match on MCA was preferable to channel 7's feature match. And on the days I went to the tennis, you could go home at night and be guaranteed a replay of the best match you saw that day. So now we have no coverage of the outside courts during the day, and no overnight replays of other matches. This is a big loss to TV viewers.

Something tells me by the end of this tournament, I will be so sick of hearing about Courtney Cox's new TV show that I wouldn't watch it for a million dollars.

Agree with everything in this post. Turned on the TV this morning to check what Fox Sport channel will be showing games and was flabbergasted to find none!

 

[damochandler]

i reckon it's will all comeback to 7 losing that appeal against suing everyone under the sun for their own moronic ways. that's why i reckon foxtel aren't covering the aus open. 7 won't alow them to show the outside courts this year

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Home and Away is the worst show on TV, **** ch 7 they are dreadful. I hate hate hate hate hate them for what they've done this summer.

 

[Arecsa]

Day 1 and I'm already disgusted by 7's coverage. ****ing useless muppets.

 

[SBI]

This is why we need a second channel. I have no desire to watch Clijsters romp it home when I could be watching something like Stepanek/Karlovic (or apparently not, considering the stupid organisers put it on a non-TV court anyway).

 

[BobbyMorri]

and the fact its raining again.

Just found a stream to for Wickmayers game. 7-7 in the third

seven will be hoping that game finishes quickly, so they can have the Tomic match before the news.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Yeah I've been watching for about 30 minutes and the number of missed points is already giving me the shits. Plus it's women's tennis. Think I'd prefer to be watching the Roddick match...

Seven will be over the moon that Sharapova lost her first match

 

[PHX]

This is why we need a second channel. I have no desire to watch Clijsters romp it home when I could be watching something like Stepanek/Karlovic (or apparently not, considering the stupid organisers put it on a non-TV court anyway).

Even the Roddick/ De Bakker match isn't a whitewash and would be fine to watch.

 

[damochandler]

it's a disgrace that fox aren't showing and i reckon it's not their fault. it's 7 just having a sook over them losing the court case appeal that they were never going too win.

 

[PHX]

**** em. Found a Roddick stream instead.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Ads
Recorded post-match interview with Clijsters
20 seconds of 'highlights' from the (then) ongoing Roddick game
Plug to tell us to buy the tennis record (or whatever the magazine is called)
Telecommunications company "sounds of the game"
Ads
Slow mos
Recorded Sharapova post-match press conference.

Wasteland

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Another ad break!

These pricks must have a policy of filling the time between their feature matches with crap

 

[BobbyMorri]

As long as they cross live to the Murray match next, then i can forgive.

 

[footycool]

This is crap, Ad: AO NEws (crap) Ad: Slow motion crap

 

[footycool]

Ads
Recorded post-match interview with Clijsters
20 seconds of 'highlights' from the (then) ongoing Roddick game
Plug to tell us to buy the tennis record (or whatever the magazine is called)
Telecommunications company "sounds of the game"
Ads
Slow mos
Recorded Sharapova post-match press conference.

Wasteland

im watching the same shit

 

[damochandler]

Ads
Recorded post-match interview with Clijsters
20 seconds of 'highlights' from the (then) ongoing Roddick game
Plug to tell us to buy the tennis record (or whatever the magazine is called)
Telecommunications company "sounds of the game"
Ads
Slow mos
Recorded Sharapova post-match press conference.

Wasteland

and they wonder why we the public bag their sports coverage all the time