 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not sure that Sky would immediately swoop in to bag it but being on Eurosport would be a pain in the back bottom.
Effectively saying Rugby League is no longer a sport of national merit but meaningless Euro 2012 qualifiers away in San Marino/Andorra etc are so important they must be screened on free to air. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Fatbob - my two favoured sports - skiing and Rugby League - are not considered worthy of a national audience... can I have my license fee back?
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How many true 'sofa-surfer sport fans haven't already got Sky Sport or ESPN?
And what happened to PPV? You want it? - you pay for it. You don't want it? - life is cheaper.
See for example boxing. glad my Sky supscription doesn't have to cough up for that as a standard. Equally, glad my BBC licence fee doesn't have to cough up for live premiership football.
I think the public service broadcaster(s) should concentrate on the 'minority' and less known sports - give them the oxygen of publicity that they can't get from the specialists, and maybe encourage new participants.
If we are indeed such a fat lazy nation, the wider the range of sports seen and tv funded ( = grass roots availbility), the better chance if people finding something they can identify with and perhaps participate in.
IMHO of course.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sad news, but free-to-air TV can't cater for every sporting taste. I was gutted when they took Superbikes off terrestrial TV and equally gutted when C4's World Cup Skiing coverage ended.
I'd gladly pay extra for Eurosport alone but I don't want to subscribe to Sky. I realise I could subscribe to Eurosport online but my home computer is not up to that.
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hmm - torn about this especially as far as the cricket is concerned. i can see the benefit of it being on free to air but the quality of coverage on sky is so much better. it used to drive me mad when test cricket was interspersed with horse racing etc. on sky it is uninterrupted plus you have the excellent 2 hours worth of highlights in the evenings for those of us who have to work for a living
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Arno, their technology is fantastic too - I doubt the BBC would have developed the same.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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I'd love for Eurosport to be on Freeview and not as part of Top-up TV or anything. IIRC it was free-to-air on analogue satellite way back when.
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laundryman, maybe not the BBC but Channel 4 used a lot of new technology for watching cricket. I quite liked the recent 20-20 on Eurosport where they could speak to fielders and umpires during the match, generally quite banal but there was the occasional interesting insight.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Swirly, true.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Arno, sure, but you're talking about coverage what, 5, 6, more years ago? Sports coverage in general has improved in quality in that time.
laundryman, Swirly, technology moves on. Anyway, I don't believe Sky develops any of this stuff, just buys it in. Even the Beeb uses hawkeye at Wimbledon. The BBC on the other hand certainly used to develop all kinds of clever jiggery-pokery - RDS radio being one example I remember in the labs about 20 years ago.
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andyph, had the BBC done anything beyond the "action replay" in cricket coverage?
I think Hawkeye at Wimbledon is part of the competition, not the TV coverage.
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You know it makes sense.
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Just stick all sports on sky their coverage is far far superior to anything the beeb offers. And when you compare cost (£3 a week or something for sports package) to other things such as oing to the cinema etc its pretty good value too.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Arno, agree with the cricket comment, the quality of commentators sitting in the box at the moment for sky is incredible.
Let alone the technology and uninterupyed coverage.
I reckon its good to give coverage occasionalyy (i.e. for the ashes), but both sky and bbc should be able to have access to live coverage.
Plus I would give free sky coverage too sports clubs all up and down the country giving sports clubs a new lease of life and encouraging people to watch the cricket and create a more community feel. Publicans would moan, but it would be benificial.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sideshow_Bob,
Eurosport is still free on analogue satelite, it's just in German.........wunderbar!!!!!
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