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Shane Bingle

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by Shane Bingle » Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:00:00





>It's too bad, I will miss the BBC coverage and especially Murray
>Walker, but not Dr. Jonathan Palmer's commentary. I wonder if CBC will
>be airing the ITV coverage next year?

I'm with you there, the best commentary team would be Murray Walker (for
his enthusiasm!) and John Watson from Eurosport.  

But as long as they don't have Jonathon (Boring) Palmer everything
should be fine :-)

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'John' Joao Sil

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by 'John' Joao Sil » Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:00:00





>>Not that it affects me here in the
>>USA but I know the pain of shoddy F1 coverage and too many
>>interruptions for adverts (ESPN).

>Just a query (and we're getting way off topic for this newsgroup -
>sorry), but how (or maybe even _why_?) do you put up with this in
>America. I watch the Indycar races on Eurosport and they get the ESPN
>feed. Now Eurosport takes far too many breaks for my liking, but they
>actually provide their own commentary through most of the ESPN breaks.
>What with all the yellows yesterday, the Amercians can't have actually
>seen more than a few minutes of racing :(
SNIP!
>Richard

If I can stay off-topic for just another minute or two.

The truth of the matter as to why we put up with it is because
we have no choice. Personally I watch the ESPN2 broadcast live with
all the adverts, sometimes driving me to shouting at the TV for cutting
to a commercial when some important pass or move is going on.

Luckily, later at night I can watch and usually tape the Canadian rebroadcast
of the BBC coverage which is much better.

Actually we are just glad to be able to see any racing on TV. This year
the local ABC television station decided to show a telethon for Muscular
Distrophy (SP?) instead of the Indycar race one weekend, and not rebroadcast
the race at all. When I called them to ask when they were going to show
the race, I got a m***explanation on how helping sick children is more
important than some car race. Not that I disagree with this, but it would
not be too hard to rebroadcast the race in the early hours of the
morning.

Here in the USA autoracing receives very little respect or airtime, only
the big 3 sports (baseball, basketball, football) get good TV coverage.

So you see why F1 has only a hidden acquired following here in the USA,
when even Indycar doesn't seem to yet receive a wide audience, though this
seems to be on the increase in the last few years.

With more and more racing sims coming out, I think more people will be
exposed to the e***ment of auto racing and hopefully the TV coverage
will also grow.

I just hope ITV doesn't***up your coverage next year, and that at least
they pick up Murray Walker as the announcer.

Cheers.

--John
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Michael Knowle

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by Michael Knowle » Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:00:00


> Murray is so great, someone is bound to pick him up for the F1
> broadcasts next year. Maybe ITV will bring him along.

ITV will be announcing the commentary line-up in the next few weeks.

Apparently it will be 3 x 5 min breaks.  :-(

Apparently Nigel Mansell has been signed up to do commentary next year,
nobody knows whether this will be alongside or instead of Murray!

Mike.

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Mark Hi

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by Mark Hi » Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:00:00



>> Murray is so great, someone is bound to pick him up for the F1
>> broadcasts next year. Maybe ITV will bring him along.

>ITV will be announcing the commentary line-up in the next few weeks.

>> I do think the UK will be unfortunate enough to join the rest of the
>> world in having to put up with interruptions for commercial
>> adverti***ts during F1 coverage next year.

>Apparently it will be 3 x 5 min breaks.  :-(

5 mins is long enough for 3 and a half laps on some circuits, taking
out over 10 laps in a race. :-(

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Al Cargil

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by Al Cargil » Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:00:00




> > I do think the UK will be unfortunate enough to join the rest of the
> > world in having to put up with interruptions for commercial
> > adverti***ts during F1 coverage next year.

> Apparently it will be 3 x 5 min breaks.  :-(

Maybe they could just ask the drivers to pull over and stop while the
adverts are on?

Oh no!! NM - "Well my comments were going just fine until my
microphone started to lose power and then it just died - nothing to
do with me!" :-)

 Al


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