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KnightMare ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682 |
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Serisouly we are going to have thius conversation many times over and nothting is going to happen. Sailing is a serisouly complex sport to those who dont know the first thing about it (general public) and unless sailing gets its own channel or slot on sprts channel the TV companies will have to keep aiming their sailing programs at the general public which makes them usless for all of 'us' sailing folk. Now you could try another angle and try making your own TV program and sending it to the TV companies so that they have it incase they have a slow news day and goodness we seem to be having those quite often. |
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Exactly - sailing is too difficult for the great unwashed to understand. The Aiinslie/Sheidt saildown in the last race of the 2000 Olympics was great TV - but only if you were a sailor who understood the rules! The general public would think it was crazy - the leader trying to do badly just as long as his rival did badly too! The Aussie 18 footer coverage was wonderful - but that is a class where there is a long tradition of making things easy for spectators. And TV costs money. I've had involvement with motor sport for years - and most of the motorsport that gets on TV is there because the competitors are paying for it to be there. Even the highest level in the country - British Rally Championship - if a competitor doesn't pay for the "media pack" (which costs thousands) he won't get on the telly, even if he is running at the front of the field. So we really can only expect the really high level stuff (Volvo Ocean race, Americas Cup) to get on terrestrial telly. Maybe we should just go sailing instead.... |
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tgruitt ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 02 Dec 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2479 |
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action from the fireballl worlds was on bbc and itv news! I was out on the same boat as the camera men
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Needs to sail more...
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jpbuzz591 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 May 05 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 793 |
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What we need to do is start an online petition and get everyone on the forum to sign it, and then send it off to the bbc showing that there is support for sailing to be shown on terrestrial tv |
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HannahJ ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Jul 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 861 |
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There was a really gd program on Ellen MacArthur once, but the olympic coverage was rubbish, i agree.
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MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin"
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
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Olly4088 ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 10 Jan 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 424 |
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Rubbish is being to kind. The bbc and all channels that show sport need to pull there finger out.
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TheSeaFalcon ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 Mar 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 345 |
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Well said turnturtle! I watched the whole of the olympic sailing bit (and the boxing cos that Amir Kahn's quite cute) but the only other vaguely interesting thing I saw was a round the island race with these two irritating women who had no clue (I think that's the same one as bns saw!!) it was actually kind of amusing, but only cos I had nothing better to do that day!! Im just off to email the bbc... they know me quite well - I like to complain about things cos I know they'll reply! |
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Strawberry ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Jun 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1337 |
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Haha, SeaFalcon, you sound very lonely. I'll be your friend! As for sailing on tv, let's face it. The coverage is mainly just gonna be boats blasting in a straight line. Even I find that boring after a while! The start sequence would be good viewing, as would maybe some windward/leeward mark action. But then, even saying that, you can only watch so many tacks, gybes, bear aways, kite hoists, kitre drops, etc. before that will become tedious aswell. The really interesting stuff is seeing the bigger picture, how competitors get on all the way through the championship, each competitiors tactics etc. andI think the best media for that is probably just good old fashioned reading! Sorry to be controversial, just playing devils advocate. |
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TheSeaFalcon ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 Mar 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 345 |
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Why, er...thanks Strawberry!! I know what you mean, but isn't football just kicking and running! I watch it sometimes, n people never bore of football so why would they get bored of sailing?! (Okay, well everyone here is kind of a sailing fanatic, but still....)
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Strawberry ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Jun 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1337 |
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But as far as I know (I'm no football expert, more of a rugby fan) the football players dont run in the same direction for like 15mins at a time! On the other hand, they show the marathon on tv! |
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