• TV
  • MOVIES
  • MUSIC
  • SHOWBIZ
  • SOAPS
  • GAMING
  • TECH
  • FORUMS
  • Follow
    • Follow
    • facebook
    • twitter
    • google+
    • instagram
    • youtube
Hearst Corporation
  • TV
  • MOVIES
  • MUSIC
  • SHOWBIZ
  • SOAPS
  • GAMING
  • TECH
  • FORUMS
Forums
  • Register
  • Login
  • Forums
  • TV
  • Broadcasting
BT Sports Channel (Part 2)
<<
<
56 of 345
>>
>
Lindy_Loue
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by kirstiemcnabb:
“Our iPad and bt sport app thingy worked all afternoon
My daughter is the footie lover not me
Have sky broadband in main house and bt broadband in annex that we rent out
Used it on our sky broadband
It does not work on 3g she said, so not as good as sky go
She commented on jake being on screen too much, owen a joke and the results show was poor
From what I saw the studio show bits were tedious”

My iPad worked all afternoon too, although I went radical and actually watched the Liverpool - Stoke match on the TV

I don't agree that Owen is a joke, though. I think he really knows what he's talking about. He's just a relatively quiet bloke who has had to work on being a bit more extrovert - nowt wrong with that in my book !!
steveh31
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by suffolkblue:
“So sky call their evening game SNF. Oh and look large screens and a live audiance standing in the background. Does that remind you of another channel lol.This does not suit sky at all very poor from them.”

All they need is Clarkson and a cool wall
Jason C
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by suffolkblue:
“So sky call their evening game SNF. Oh and look large screens and a live audiance standing in the background. Does that remind you of another channel lol.This does not suit sky at all very poor from them.”

Did BT actually have an audience in their studio for the Liverpool match?
square_eyes
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by suffolkblue:
“So sky call their evening game SNF. Oh and look large screens and a live audiance standing in the background. Does that remind you of another channel lol.This does not suit sky at all very poor from them.”

Looks a bit daft to be honest.

Sky should have just kept what they are good at. No need to try and outdo BT.

The BT set-up is big on gimmicks, but they don't really deliver.
Lindy_Loue
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Jason C:
“Did BT actually have an audience in their studio for the Liverpool match?”

I don't think so. I didn't notice one, anyway. Why would they? They were at Anfield for the commentary and then it was just jake and co for the chat
Jason C
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Lindy_Loue:
“I don't think so. I didn't notice one, anyway. Why would they? They were at Anfield for the commentary and then it was just jake and co for the chat ”

Well, they did have 75 minutes of build-up to get through first - so they may have wanted to do something with an audience then, perhaps.
Gray77
17-08-2013
Sky SNF totally pointless as well. Lots of stuff I've seen today on both Sky and BT I've just felt are OTT nonsense, designed just to look different but not really achieving anything.

What's wrong with Sky just being at the Liberty like they'd be for a Sunday game or last season for a 12.45 game?

This is the Champions first game, away from home at a tough place, it should be a fairly big occasion on the opening day. Instead it feels like a poor mans Monday Night Football where the actual game is an afterthought, with Redknapp spouting obvious line after obvious line and a crowd of whoppers who obviously think standing in a TV studio for hours is the best way to watch a game.
Hup_73
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Jason C:
“Did BT actually have an audience in their studio for the Liverpool match?”

No, but I remember that had one for one of the previous games. They may have decided it was a bit naff and ditched it!
square_eyes
17-08-2013
Yep, BT coming in has really messed up football presentation.

Just get a studio at the ground with a couple of pundits in it. Its getting daft everyone trying to outdo each other
Hup_73
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Gray77:
“Sky SNF totally pointless as well. Lots of stuff I've seen today on both Sky and BT I've just felt are OTT nonsense, designed just to look different but not really achieving anything.

What's wrong with Sky just being at the Liberty like they'd be for a Sunday game or last season for a 12.45pm”

Agreed - it's bizarre that both Sky and BT have chosen to host the match from the studio rather than actually be at the match - makes it all feel a cheaper.
Hup_73
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Lindy_Loue:
“Well, I am enjoying BT Sports as a refreshing change from Sky and the Beeb. It's good to get some new inputs, some of which are bound to work out better than others

I actually enjoyed the combination of Ian Darke and Michael Owen in the commentary box, and the addition of a referee's view was also interesting .....there just weren't many contentious issues to address in the game. Even the virtual pitch came in handy, I thought, when they showed how goal line technology will work.

After 3pm was a different story, though. I think they'll need to do something else as they really didn't have anything specific to offer.

Good start on the whole ”

I agree - I always felt ESPN/Setanta looked poor against Sky's professionalism. However, out of the two matches today, I think I've actually preferred BT's coverage to Sky's. Maybe a change is as a good as a rest as they say!
Brekkie
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by stej86:
“Unofficial sources now saying BT Sport first premiership match peaked at over 1.6 million viewers on BT Sport 1.

Very very impressive figures if true”

And complete bollocks - there will be no source of ratings until 9.30am tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Originally Posted by mersey70:
“Jake just said we must tune into Match of The Day tonight to see all the goals.

Very kind of him to promote another channel!”

Someone has forgotten he's left the BBC. Presumably BT get to show all the goals at some point themselves as part of their deal. I think in the Setanta days it was after midnight, but that might have changed now. Only thing I can see is "Premier League Review" which airs first on Monday at 7.30am.

Possible BT Sport Live could show them too if it's presenting itself as effectively a news service under the standard fair usage policies.
mlt11
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Gray77:
“Sky SNF totally pointless as well. Lots of stuff I've seen today on both Sky and BT I've just felt are OTT nonsense, designed just to look different but not really achieving anything.

What's wrong with Sky just being at the Liberty like they'd be for a Sunday game or last season for a 12.45 game?

This is the Champions first game, away from home at a tough place, it should be a fairly big occasion on the opening day. Instead it feels like a poor mans Monday Night Football where the actual game is an afterthought, with Redknapp spouting obvious line after obvious line and a crowd of whoppers who obviously think standing in a TV studio for hours is the best way to watch a game.”

I sympathise with your general point.

But at the same time Sky are trying to integrate preview (at 2.30pm) and review (at 5pm) of the 3pm games.

If Sky just did a normal presentation from the ground (ie starting at 5pm) arguably almost nobody would watch it as people would stay with Soccer Saturday.

So yes, I agree they should be careful about too many gimmicks. But in my view the general overall structure makes good sense.
Arcana
17-08-2013
I cancelled Sky a long time ago so I can't really compare but I enjoyed the match on BT today. I skipped the build-up but the match was well presented and streamed almost flawlessly for me on my Android tablet.
mlt11
17-08-2013
One specific on the BT coverage of Liverpool v Stoke - I think they generally showed very few replays of key incidents.

I wonder if they were worried about missing anything important on such a high profile occasion for them.
Gray77
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by mlt11:
“I sympathise with your general point.

But at the same time Sky are trying to integrate preview (at 2.30pm) and review (at 5pm) of the 3pm games.

If Sky just did a normal presentation from the ground (ie starting at 5pm) arguably almost nobody would watch it as people would stay with Soccer Saturday.

So yes, I agree they should be careful about too many gimmicks. But in my view the general overall structure makes good sense.”

I just don't feel that they need to do lead ins for Premier League games. People know when games are on, and will watch them regardless of what the build up is. I don't like football games taking place in the middle of TV Shows, and that is what today has felt like.
mersey70
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Arcana:
“I cancelled Sky a long time ago so I can't really compare but I enjoyed the match on BT today. I skipped the build-up but the match was well presented and streamed almost flawlessly for me on my Android tablet.”

Overall I have been very impressed with the presentation of BT Sport. I think the biggest compliment I can pay it is (to me) it dosen't seem like a new channel but rather one that has been around for a while.

I guess taking over ESPN has helped them bed in very quickly.
Zizu58
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by BigFoot87:
“Aghhh @ the music.

Apart from that, not bad from BT. The only DOG I noticed was the one barking outside.”

Perfect post
Zizu58
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by ahoymeister:
“Unimpressed by BT Sport so far. The build up to the game was ponderous and lacking in any insight. The glass pitch is a pointless gimmick and the constant use of the inset to show the back of the referee's head irritated quickly, Michael Owen's monotone drone was Trevor Brooking with the knowledge removed.”

Owen's on record as saying that football comes a distant second to his love of horse racing , I'd say he's only doing this to fund his stables .
Lindy_Loue
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Zizu58:
“Owen's on record as saying that football comes a distant second to his love of horse racing , I'd say he's only doing this to fund his stables .”

On the other hand, I think he's a bit of a perfectionist, and now he's taken on this commentary role, he'll do his best to do it well (after all, he's been more of a pundit in the past, which is quite different). Personally I think he's improved greatly - in fact we were joking here that there must be two Michael Owens - the on we usually get, and the one we heard today and last week

Give the guy a chance
swingaleg
17-08-2013
Flicking the channels at half time in the Sky game and saw the half time chat in the German match on BT

So............who's the guy doing the interviewing ?

His face looks really familiar but his hair has gone a bit grey since I last saw him

I'm sure he's one where you go 'oh yeah, d'oh !' when you hear the name..............
mersey70
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“Flicking the channels at half time in the Sky game and saw the half time chat in the German match on BT

So............who's the guy doing the interviewing ?

His face looks really familiar but his hair has gone a bit grey since I last saw him

I'm sure he's one where you go 'oh yeah, d'oh !' when you hear the name..............”

Paul Demspey? he's ex-Sky News/Sky Sports/Setanta?
StargateNerd_24
17-08-2013
Just got time to watch BT Sport yesterday and overall I am impressed. I really liked the Claire Balding Show, although she seemed very full of her self in the introduction to the show which was something I had never seen her do before but on the rest of the show she seemed fine.

Lifes a Pitch was good after that awful, cringy and unfunny bit at the Start where Des Kelly tries and fails at being Jon Stewart. When he interviewed Richard Scudamore he was fine, leave the comeady to the professionals.

Havent seen anything else.
casinoman13
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by Lindy_Loue:
“On the other hand, I think he's a bit of a perfectionist, and now he's taken on this commentary role, he'll do his best to do it well (after all, he's been more of a pundit in the past, which is quite different). Personally I think he's improved greatly - in fact we were joking here that there must be two Michael Owens - the on we usually get, and the one we heard today and last week

Give the guy a chance ”

I agree we should give the guy a chance, however saying that, as I posted somewhere a few days ago, if BT feel Owen is working out they have a ready made replacement in Steve Mcnanaman.

He and Ian Darke were a very popular combination for ESPN so why not for BT?

You can easily tell whenever Mcnanaman is about he has had far more experience than the rest and speaks a good game.
swingaleg
17-08-2013
Originally Posted by mersey70:
“Paul Demspey? he's ex-Sky News/Sky Sports/Setanta?”

Yeah, cheers.............that's him

Haven't seen him for a while................I probably remember him from Sky News

Just checked his biog and it says he's been working in Ireland since 2006 so I probably haven't seen him since then
<<
<
56 of 345
>>
>
VIEW DESKTOP SITE TOP

JOIN US HERE

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Hearst Corporation

Hearst Corporation

DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK

© 2015 Hearst Magazines UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 72 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 9EP. Registered in England 112955. All rights reserved.

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Complaints
  • Site Map