Admin":2zeskq0r said:
Funny, I wouldn't have guessed as you look like a Cybor with your new Avatar. :stir:
Admin":2zeskq0r said:
Watching the Super G tonight, as with all of NBC's alpine skiing coverage from these Games, if they showed someone who wasn't a well known favorite or a U.S. skier they were virtually guaranteed to crash before the finish, usually in some spectacular way. In fact, from what I could see as far as NBC was concerned, the more spectacular the better. Tonight I watched Patrik Jaerbyn of Sweden leave the starting gate. Patrik who? Who?.
I recorded it from the only network I can get a decent reception (I don't have cable, because we rarely watch TV). The Canadian coverage is on CTV (English) and V (old Television Quatre-Saisons)(French). On cable, it's on a sport network (TSN (E) and RDS (F)). A good thing if you can catch all these channel is that you just have to check the listing to see who's carrying the event and the schedule of the games. Unfortunately, if the schedule is changed and you're trying to record it at a certain time, you're screwed. ](*,)
The CBC and SRC (French) didn't win the bidding for the Olympics like for the Calgary games back in 1988 when it was CTV and TVA (French). The French commentaries was pretty bad at that time, as TVA sportscasters' knowledge outside hockey was generally pretty bad.
I was expecting the worst when I found out that 'V' had the Games coverage. Besides a reality show when young superficial singles live together, V is best known for
Bleu Nuit. Pretty much far behind the two main French networks in Quebec in rating and credibility.
Back to these Olympics and yesterday's Super-G. I had recorded it and got all the first 29 racers until that "Red Shirt" crashed (so I didn't know it was going to happen), from that point on there was a delay and they moved to a hockey game. The French commentaries confirmed that a great racer doesn't necessarily make for a good commentator. The colour was gone by Mélanie Turgeon, let's just say that she was definitely a way better skier. Pretty bad.
The problem of recording live at the schedule time is that sometimes the schedule changes like today. I started recording at 1:30PM (EST) when I noticed that they already at skier #13. Damn... That is the only drawback.
Regarding the "Red shirt' classic, this used to happen on CBC would show the entire first seed (when they were all in top 15 starts) + plus all the Canadians. When you saw skier number 54 coming down, you knew that either he had the run of his life or we was going to crash.
Admin":2zeskq0r said:
This coverage is the worst I've ever seen of alpine skiing, and that's saying a lot.
Our coverage is good, but comments (in French) are pathetic. I didn't pay attention who's been going the comments on the English coverage. They are generally pretty good.