TV Coverage Debacle!

[jenny61_99]

All last week they were advertising on the Main Event channel that NSW, QLD and ACT would be receiving the alternate Saturday night game (Adel v Haw) on Saturday night. What has been happening, up until now, is that both Channel 10 and Fox Sports 1 cover the same game and means that the other game doesn't get covered at all (unlike last year when they each covered a different game). Anyways, this year, Fox has been given permission to show Friday night games LIVE into NSW, QLD and ACT on their main event channel and apparently there must have been requests for the alternate game on a Saturday be covered the same way.

So at 7.30 we are sitting down waiting for the game to begin.... and waiting.... and waiting. So I ring Foxtel and ask what's going on (after waiting 8 minutes for service) and the lady tells me "It's a broadcast issue in QLD, they are working to get it on in a couple of minutes"... cool I say and hang up waiting for it to come on. Minutes later the precis of the game changes on screen to read (FOR NSW AND ACT ONLY). So what I want to know is - why is it a broadcast issue in QLD????

 

[beartoo]

That's very sad. It was a great game by the team. Hope you enjoy the replay.

 

[beck*]

The biggest debacle will always be the commentators
Watching the reply on Sunday night just drove me crazy. Pumping up the Hawks in the prematch promos and then talking about their chances in the finals in the last quarter when we were up by 70!

 

[showdownhero]

The biggest debacle will always be the commentators
Watching the reply on Sunday night just drove me crazy. Pumping up the Hawks in the prematch promos and then talking about their chances in the finals in the last quarter when we were up by 70!

I thought they did a pretty good job including ripping the piss through Quaters when the Hawks were getting pumped. Apparently he had been pumping their tires the whole day (being a hawks supporter) and didn't take to kindly to the joke either.