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Cheeky ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 05 Aug 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 59 |
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from the BFI - Author Phil Wickman... I've cut it down a bit. People continue to watch the same amount of TV but it is spread over a huge array of channels and programmes. Half of the nation glued to The Morecambe and Wise Show, an episode of Steptoe and Son, or a soap opera is not the way of our world anymore. We make individual choices and schedule our own viewing as we wish. This brings us freedom but it can also be argued that it makes us understand each other less, as we can no longer rely on having the same cultural co-ordinates, no matter what our other differences. it all depends how you read your data. I'm sure AC Neilsen will give you a different persepective if you are paying. Edited by Cheeky |
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Stefan Lloyd ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 03 Aug 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1599 |
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Interesting. I've looked at the ISAF annual reports and they do indeed get a large proportion of their funding from the Olympics. That certainly explains a lot. |
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Stefan Lloyd ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 03 Aug 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1599 |
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It's a well-established trend. People are wasting their time in front of PCs instead of wasting their time in front of the TV. Especially people with broadband. And as it happens, yes I do have access to and interest in some of the audience research in this area.
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Cheeky ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 05 Aug 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 59 |
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That's what the proposal is about. It's about taking the leading boats into
a head to head showdown. With on the water umpires which undoubtedly have microphones. Now as far as I see it, what ever boat you sail, fast or slow, that will be very exciting. (just though I'd bring it back on track as we'd driffted a bit :-) |
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gordon ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 07 Sep 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1037 |
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If they can make cricket interesting on the telly with a bit of electronics, then it should not be too complicated to work out an on screen display to show which team is winning.
Could be fun - with microphones on the umpires boats, video analysis of mark roundings, protests etc. Gordon |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Team racing would be great as an olympic sport (and it would be nice to see the Firefly back as an olympic class after 60 years!)and there would be plenty of action, but as for being obvious who is winning for the spectator, they would have to understand all the winning combinations to work out what was going on. I suppose an expert commentator would help, but it would for fleet racing, too. As for the original proposal... Maybe professional wrestling should be an olympic sport instead? It has everything they are looking for... |
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gordon ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 07 Sep 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1037 |
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If we want to make things easy for the spectator then the Olympics should consist of a 3 boat team racing event in dinghies and a match racing event in a one design keelboat. Time limit for each race about 10/15 minutes. All teams to be mixed. Would it be good for the sport of sailing? As boats would be supplied by organisers sailing the Olympic circuit would be much cheaper. Sailors would drop out of fleet racing to take up the minority activities that lead to an Olympic qualification. Gordon
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Scooby_simon ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 02 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2415 |
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This is aexactly what I was talking about in my post - get the racing close to the shore (maybe a shore break to make it more interesting). Get TV in close - borrow the Amerca's cup marks which poeple / TV can site on / be stationed on. Get some GOOD commentators who know what is going on. Get some people around to expalin what is going on as well in the crowd. The only way people will watch and enjoy it is to make them understand how it some of it works.
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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No, all available stocks have been bought out, by sailors of fast boats
who can't sleep for wondering why their classes aren't growing when
they spend so much time abusing other sailors, and by the sailors of
slow boats wondering why sailors of fast boats are so aggro.
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Cheeky ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 05 Aug 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 59 |
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Can you get Mogadon in Oz?
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