Sailing On TV

   To be fair, Ellen and Mike Goulding got about the same as our local Fball teams on the local news prog when the Vendee etc was on. The trouble is,1 sailing progs have a small audience, and 2, what would they show? There are so many championships and classes. If you want to get people outside the sport interested you need a focus, like the Olympics.Maybe a high profile 18ft skiff series, but they tried it with the Ultra 30's a few years back, which was good while it lasted, but it died in the end. There's loads about this on the previuos thread....

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Rob.e Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 19 Oct 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 545	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rob.e Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Sailing On TV Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 4:39pm
	To be fair, Ellen and Mike Goulding got about the same as our local Fball teams on the local news prog when the Vendee etc was on. The trouble is,1 sailing progs have a small audience, and 2, what would they show? There are so many championships and classes. If you want to get people outside the sport interested you need a focus, like the Olympics.Maybe a high profile 18ft skiff series, but they tried it with the Ultra 30's a few years back, which was good while it lasted, but it died in the end. There's loads about this on the previuos thread....

Doctor Clifford Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Far too distracted from work Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 243	Post Options Post Reply Quote Doctor Clifford Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 5:23pm
	when sailing is as cheap to televise as sports such as darts, snooker, golf, rowing, football, rugby, bowls, athletics, skiing, motorsport etc etc, we will see alot more! Unfortunately we are combining a sport with a limited audience with a costly production. Sailing requires boats and or helicopters, whereas all those listed above require no more than a cameraman to sit on his fat a*se eating crisps with no more than a high-lift platform!
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Spot192 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: Germany Online Status: Offline Posts: 833	Post Options Post Reply Quote Spot192 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 6:53pm
	think that´s the point that sailing is so rare in tv. that´s also the point in germany. there are too less poeple who watch it cause sailing is a outsider sport here and so they think it doesn´t worth the effort. but if things like the finish of ellen macarthur happens even we see it in tv. rarely it was ellen macarthur who made the record, but better than nothing!

KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 7:02pm
	yeah spot sounds about right. Guytoon, I didnt mean to say that there was masses of sailing on french TV jsut a lot more that english TV.


5420 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 622	Post Options Post Reply Quote 5420 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 7:54pm
	What chanel is french tv i have not seen it before but isnt it all in french so you can not understand it

KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 8:02pm
	no its actuaynot that hard to understand but it does help that i have my dad nearby to ask any words that i dont understand. Im not oo good at teh grammer and getting it exact but i can understand a fair bit of french.


Spot192 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: Germany Online Status: Offline Posts: 833	Post Options Post Reply Quote Spot192 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 8:06pm
	we don´t even have french tv. we have italian and tyrkish tv but not french. oh bbc and cnn i forgot them!

Gael Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 12 Mar 04 Location: Southampton, United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 187	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gael Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 9:06am
	Amazing, watching prime time national evening news in NZ one of the main stories in the sports round up was about the restructuring of NZ Yachting following the poor performance in Athens, they went into quite a lot of detail and even mentioned the RYA and the success of the British team... no wonder everyone was so well informed about the ins and outs of the AC, and everythign else NZ connected, like the new super maxi 'Maximus'... it was the same wherever you went. Oh for coverage like that!

5420 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 622	Post Options Post Reply Quote 5420 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 11:37am
	what chanel isfrench tv can we get it in the uk

Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 11:47am
	You can get TV5, the French-speaking channel, with cable and satellite. It used to be free but costs a couple of quid a month now with ntl . It's a general interest channel, with a lot of news, fictions and debates - programmes from all over the francophone community: Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, West Africa, Polynesia, etc. as well as French. There are also quite a few films, repeated up to six times throughout the month. They're usually subtitled into French, which might seem like a waste of time until you try and follow the plot. Not-so-proficient French learners have told me how useful this was. If you want complete programme listings, have a look at www.tv5.org Bon courage !
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