Are ITV to pull the plug on WRC coverage??

[L5->R5/CR]

ISC needs to re-juvenate the television package in general anyway.

Maybe this will be the catalyst that would do it.

In 2006 we didn't have WRC here in the states so we took to downloading it from the internet so we had the english language Eurosport feeds. The shows were sub-par. There are way to many interviews, with not nearly enough time showing the action.

The quality of the broadcasts aren't all that great IMO so why should a network keep dishing out money. F1 broadcasts by comparison have far more production quaity from what I have seen...

[Tomi]

For people who can understand Welsh I can't!

look up a guy name jamie edwards, he can translate for you

[Daniel]

ISC needs to re-juvenate the television package in general anyway.

Maybe this will be the catalyst that would do it.

In 2006 we didn't have WRC here in the states so we took to downloading it from the internet so we had the english language Eurosport feeds. The shows were sub-par. There are way to many interviews, with not nearly enough time showing the action.

The quality of the broadcasts aren't all that great IMO so why should a network keep dishing out money. F1 broadcasts by comparison have far more production quaity from what I have seen...

Yes. Quite right. Too much time is spent on showing the cars going around mediocre corners or on virtual spectator competing against other digital cars..... Very boring. I loved the days when you used to have good helicopter footage, good incar footage and good on stage footage. While I agree the F1 coverage shows better editing I still think the sport itself makes for less rivetting viewing

[MJW]

For people who can understand Welsh I can't!

Welsh? a significant portion of that show is in Finnish, (Marcus does seem to enjoy favoured status, and the drivers are interviewed in their own language)

[Simmi]

Its just the same boring routine every show and it is desperate for a re-vamp. I dont need to see reverse shots of drivers driving and shots from behind Manfred Stohl's seats etc. Helicopter shots are expensive but they truely lead to much better coverage.

[Daniel]

Excuse my ignorance

[Tomi]

Yes. Quite right. Too much time is spent on showing the cars going around mediocre corners or on virtual spectator competing against other digital cars..... Very boring. I loved the days when you used to have good helicopter footage, good incar footage and good on stage footage. While I agree the F1 coverage shows better editing I still think the sport itself makes for less rivetting viewing

Its impossible to coverage rally like F1, too expensive, F1 is in an open field, when rally is in a forest, they would have to change the sport too much, better with crap coverage than to destroy the sport.

[AndyRAC]

Subtitles are available I believe on page 888 on Teletext I think, as I live on Merseyside I can get all the Welsh TV, so S4C is no problem, and Ralio is a great programme with enthusiastic presenters, especially the girl, who is very nice!!!

[Daniel]

Its impossible to coverage rally like F1, too expensive, F1 is in an open field, when rally is in a forest, they would have to change the sport too much, better with crap coverage than to destroy the sport.

I agree. Something just seems to have changed in the last couple of years with the coverage. We used to have some damn sexy coverage and now it seems someone who doesn't seem to understand the sport has control of where the cameras are and what they do. There are far too many long shots of a corner in the distance and then the car comes into view, goes out of view and then comes into view in the foreground. All the while the camera doesn't move. It kind of gives the impression that the cars are doing a bit of sunday driving to me. Then there are the cameras they put on the road on corners which the cars hit and turn upside down. Then as someone just mentioned you have the reverse shots of drivers which seem to occupy an increasingly large amount of coverage and which also suck quite badly.

[Tomi]

Welsh? a significant portion of that show is in Finnish, (Marcus does seem to enjoy favoured status, and the drivers are interviewed in their own language)

maybe we can rig a cable from your house to mine then