ITV tour de France coverage 2014

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• SamuelW Posts: 8,447

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  05/07/14 - 11:54 #2

  Lots of criticism on twitter. People are switching to Eurosport:
  
  Leigh Holmwood ‏@LeighHolmwood 24m
  ITV's #TDF2014 coverage on a par with the BBC's jubilee flotilla with nonsense like interviewing these newlyweds. Have switched to Eurosport

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,090

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  05/07/14 - 11:57 #3

  Let's be honest.......Eurosport cover cycling for the whole season day in , day out......
  
  ITV cherry pick the odd race
  
  Obviously Eurosport are better at it.......

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• SamuelW Posts: 8,447

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  05/07/14 - 12:00 #4

  Itv cant get to their main commentators for the start of the race! The pictures are breaking up all the time. This is a shambles.

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• Jason C Posts: 31,283

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  05/07/14 - 12:00 #5

  Dreadful amounts of picture break-up.

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• hyperstarsponge Posts: 16,662

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  05/07/14 - 12:01 #6

  ITV for casual viewers and Eurosport for cycling fans, Not hard. Is the picture break up showing up on Eurosport too or not?

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• Jingle_James Posts: 151

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  05/07/14 - 12:02 #7

  Eurosports coverage will always be better. But regarding the footage, both ITV and Eurosport share the same feed, so it's out of their control.

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• hyperstarsponge Posts: 16,662

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  05/07/14 - 12:06 #8

  Damn it, ITV4 and ITV have adverts on the same time

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,090

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  05/07/14 - 12:07 #9

  hyperstarsponge wrote: »

  ITV for casual viewers and Eurosport for cycling fans, Not hard. Is the picture break up showing up on Eurosport too or not?

  
  yes........it's obviously the feed breaking up

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• Alex2606 Posts: 2,682

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  05/07/14 - 12:09 #10

  Massive overreaction as always.......Eurosport had problems when they first tried to go their commentators Jon Harris-Bass had to keep filling in from Paris and they had exactly the same picture problems because they come from the only feed that's provided by French television.

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• Aftershow Posts: 10,021

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  05/07/14 - 12:09 #11

  Over to Eurosport for me, can't take any more of ITVs adverts

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• hugon Posts: 1,690

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  05/07/14 - 12:17 #12

  Take time to enjoy the race instead of moaning about it on the Internet.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 348

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  05/07/14 - 12:18 #13

  swingaleg wrote: »

  yes........it's obviously the feed breaking up

  
  Yeah but if it had been on the BBC, the break up would have been much, much better.............

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• Jamesp84 Posts: 31,176

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  05/07/14 - 12:20 #14

  SamuelW wrote: »

  Itv cant get to their main commentators for the start of the race! The pictures are breaking up all the time. This is a shambles.

  
  Eurosport are having the same issues. Why don't you criticise them?
  
  Pathetic agenda.

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• ftv Posts: 31,668

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  05/07/14 - 12:22 #15

  HGWell wrote: »

  Yeah but if it had been on the BBC, the break up would have been much, much better.............

  
  You get a better class of technical problems on the BBC:D

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• Captain Peac0ck Posts: 67

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  05/07/14 - 12:25 #16

  hugon wrote: »

  Take time to enjoy the race instead of moaning about it on the Internet.

  
  Plenty of time during the breaks and the little features that follow them. Was waiting to see Pool in Wharfedale but never mind! Not everyone can get Eurosport so are stuck with this piss-poor effort.

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• ToneXIR Posts: 3,401

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  05/07/14 - 12:30 #17

  Sorry itv moaners, TDF coverage on ITV is excellent, from Imlaculate Gary, through to Ned, Matt and Boarders, their coverage is used on the worldwide DVD releases, have been for the last 20 odd years, Sherwen & Liggett broadcasting to the world feed, not ITV specifically but to NBC,SBS,and many others. Eurosport's coverage is good, but is pan-european so doesn't seem personal to me, the only thing is the end of the race and who gets to scrape Carlton off the ceiling, and will he call Sean, Matt! Bring on Kenny Van Valmick, Germaliod Schellpers Rule!

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• GeorgeS Posts: 20,039

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  05/07/14 - 12:37 #18

  I suppose some of the newbies who only watch cycling at the Olympics are confused like Samuel but it's the same presentation that has been winning awards since 2002

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• GeorgeS Posts: 20,039

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  05/07/14 - 12:38 #19

  ftv wrote: »

  You get a better class of technical problems on the BBC:D

  
  and you'd have Gary Linekar or Clare Balding bluffing it

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• jrmswfc Posts: 5,644

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  05/07/14 - 12:40 #20

  Switched to Eurosport when ITV broke away from the race to interview some geeks who'd been sat since 4am. Nobody cares.

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• Captain Peac0ck Posts: 67

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  05/07/14 - 12:45 #21

  Just show the effing race ITV.

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• Coen Posts: 5,711

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  05/07/14 - 12:47 #22

  Getting in to some decent scenery now!

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• Adysg Posts: 36

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  05/07/14 - 13:00 #23

  I expected a thread like this from folk that have never watched the tdf or infact any cycling road race! The general critisism on twitter that Samuel refers to is along the lines of "ITV sort your cameras out"
  
  The tdf is broadcast LIVE in 80+ countries... How dumb can some ppl be to think each of them broadcasters take along their own cameras ?
  
  Picture breakup is part and parcel of any cycling road race I remember simmilar comments made by the cycling novices that watched the road races at the London olympics... And that was on the dear ol'beeb!

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• H of De Vil Posts: 26,539

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  05/07/14 - 13:01 #24

  I wouldn't pay any attention to Samuel, he hates ITV (why?) so much if one of the commentators had their shoelace undone he would critisise.
  
  Presently the picture is fine

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• Mark C Posts: 20,893

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  05/07/14 - 13:08 #25

  Adysg wrote: »

  I expected a thread like this from folk that have never watched the tdf or infact any cycling road race! The general critisism on twitter that Samuel refers to is along the lines of "ITV sort your cameras out"
  
  The tdf is broadcast LIVE in 80+ countries... How dumb can some ppl be to think each of them broadcasters take along their own cameras ?
  
  Picture breakup is part and parcel of any cycling road race I remember simmilar comments made by the cycling novices that watched the road races at the London olympics... And that was on the dear ol'beeb!

  
  Actually no, the London 2012 cycling coverage was provided by OBS, who I think contracted in The Netherlands' NOS to provide the coverage

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• stv viewer Posts: 17,549

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  05/07/14 - 13:12 #26

  I think each olympic broadcaster produces 1 event for the OBS

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