the anti channel 7 thread

[Ricketts]

Yes they're at it already.

2.30pm on Day 1 and they've decided to show a replay of Henin V someone rather than any of the 6000 live matches on today, not to mention the best round 1 match of the tournament, Murray V Big Jo.

 

[Lowie01]

They employ John Alexander. Enough said. They're hopeless.

 

[thewhippersnapper]

They employ John Alexander. Enough said. They're hopeless.

True that, is there anything worse than John Alexander commentating Lleyton Hewitt?

 

[likka]

True that, is there anything worse than John Alexander commentating Lleyton Hewitt?

Yep, Ian Healy commentating Andrew Symonds... nauseatingly sycophantic.

Jim Courier is back this year though, he doesn't let much of JA's parochial bullshit go through to the keeper. Doesn't argue with him either, just articulately and politely corrects him...

 

[Ricketts]

Shown nil of the best 1st round match.

 

[Scruff83]

Who gives a **** about sharapova, its only the first set. go to centre court!

 

[Karbo]

I can picture it already.

10:30 tonight, Nadal has just won in straight sets.

Ch7 - "We can now take you live to a match involving Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tsonga is up 2 sets to love, your commentators are [insert moron 1] and [insert moron 2].

 

[stmookeyj]

Same thing tomorrow I bet. Baghdatis and Johansson looks to be a ripper match, but they'll show Kuznetsova whom no-one gives a rats about, then the Hewitt match with a replay after Federer disposes of his opponent at 11:00.

 

[ashley12]

Same thing tomorrow I bet. Baghdatis and Johansson looks to be a ripper match, but they'll show Kuznetsova whom no-one gives a rats about, then the Hewitt match with a replay after Federer disposes of his opponent at 11:00.

Yep guaranteed.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Having the commentators festively talk about Seven's upcoming TV shows after their promos is pretty lame.

Night sessions on a two hour delay in Perth as per usual

 

[ashley12]

Having the commentators festively talk about Seven's upcoming TV shows after their promos is pretty lame.

Night sessions on a two hour delay in Perth as per usual

Just on that topic what are the plans for the final???

For the Safin v Hewitt and Federer v Baghdatis they were shown live but the Gonzo v Fed game I think was delayed.

Ch 7

 

[Geddy Lee]

Can't believe they didn't show Jo vs Murray

Truly baffling and infuriating.

 

[Bombers_Forever]

Typical 7 - they always choose the wrong matches.

In saying that, tennis to me is boring so Channel 7 are not going to make it exciting unless they show some contests.

 

[DeFy_YoU]

I know alot of people dont have it... but i find the foxtel coverage of the australian open to be much much better... no time delays for us perthians

 

[Stats Man]

It's not too bad. I mean, for a sports fanatic, all sport all day is pretty handy no matter what.

Perhaps FoxSports could run an all day, every day channel for a fortnight?

 

[chickens_law]

Why isnt Sandy Roberts commentating? Hes way better than the other twat.

 

[ben.carbonaro]

The pleasures of having Foxtel at home means you have three channels of tennis most days of the Australian Open.

I am in heaven.

 

[thewhippersnapper]

WTF are CH7 doing atm? Numerous matches they could have on including Guccione and they are showing top shots, lame segments and now slow mo replays

 

[Xtreme]

WTF are CH7 doing atm? Numerous matches they could have on including Guccione and they are showing top shots, lame segments and now slow mo replays

I was just coming here to post that!

Conclusion of Novak's match
Commercial Break
"New Optus Tennis Sound bites" segment
Commercial Break
Aust Open news / Kia Hot shots
Commercial Break
Hewitt Coming up next
Slow Mo Extreme
Commercial Break



* Update: Now we've been taken to the Guccione match...

But the time we get to Hewitt's match, he'll have been dumped in straight sets

 

[-VC-]

WTF are CH7 doing atm? Numerous matches they could have on including Guccione and they are showing top shots, lame segments and now slow mo replays

Yeah, I'm at work and I flicked it on to get a Guccione score. Here is the EXACT sequence as best I recall.

- Ads were on. I counted at least nine, possibly ten (I only started counting when it got to three or four, so I don't know exactly)

- Johanna Griggs coming on and showing a clip of Hantuchova winning match point and then passing it over to Kylie Gillies for an update on shit that happened yesterday.

- Another ad break, this one cleverly* disguised as a shithouse story on a Russian chick playing for Australia today. She was getting her hair straightened in the GARNIER tent. The product placement was vomit inducing.

- Another ad break, this one cleverly* disguised as Sam Kekovich getting stuck into The Poo for being un-Australian. It was advertising lamb and it should be noted that it was specifically meant to look like a segment as part of their coverage rather than an actual ad, much like the Garnier one from before.

- A story on the unlucky prick who has to play Federer tonight. Seems like a good bloke, but I really don't give a shit.

- Promo for the brats game this arvo.

- I assume that was a segue for an ad break so I turned the TV off.

Channel 7 have prevented me from doing work for the last 40 minutes. Roughly 20 minutes of their bullshit and a further 20 minutes of me coming into this thread to rant about it. In that time I saw ONE point and they didn't even show a close up shot of Hantuchova's legs.


* Interpretation of the word 'cleverly' is very loose

 

[ben.carbonaro]

Listen to the ABC radio coverage instead then.

Listened to some of it yesterday and they did a good job I thought.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Listen to the ABC radio coverage instead then.

Watching rather than listening to sport is the prefered way in the 21st century.

 

[chickens_law]

People who listen to tennis on the radio make me laugh.

 

[Diamond Joe]

Was just coming online to post a new thread 'Ch. 7 commentators - terrible?', but this thread will suffice.

Listen to the clowns on now. They can't seem to string a sentence together without stop/starting, repeating themselves or throwing in a a few 'ums' or 'ahs'. Or a bit of all three.

The bloke on there is the worst of the lot. Doesn't say anything but the bleating obvious and even then can't articulate himself any better than a shy pubescent boy at a girl's sleepover party.

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

Yeah channel 7 is terrible. Lucky I have foxtel.