Wheels has dropped off TVU again - so no truck race this weekend for us poor Brits
:rolleyes:
unless someone can do something about it
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Wheels has dropped off TVU again - so no truck race this weekend for us poor Brits
:rolleyes:
unless someone can do something about it
Damn thats a real shame.Thers been some great racing so far this year,especially when you are a Kyle Busch fan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by colinspooky
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Originally Posted by jeffmr2
Not many of them to the pound :D
We'll have the last laugh at the end of the season though.
Wheels is back - Truck race tonight - perhaps
:D
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Originally Posted by Rapier Racer
Hate to say it but you could be right. He just cant afford to many races like last nights.
Just checked that Nascar on sky sports 3 at 7pm bst .It is now shown on guide as being on Sky sports 1 and hd1.Glad I didnt go out as I had my v box set up to record on ss3.
Sky got the order right last weekend - Texas and then the rain delayed Indy car rather than the other way round
The editing of the Nationwide race on NASN was hopeless why did they miss laps 6-19 and therefore miss Dario's accident
Your thread title answers your question! ;)
yeah I know- I tried 6 times to speak to them a couple of weeks ago to cancel the subscription- got through to no-one at all in customer services (if it exists at all)- then I cancelled the direct debit knowing damn well it would provoke a response- sure enough I got a letter from them about it
I emailed them about 10 days ago to tell to cancel the service as I no longer used it- guess what- I still have NASN etc...so I'll email them again
on the other hand after a shaky start Sky's coverage just keeps getting better
ALthough on times it was too long i still miss the pre race coverage,i just think theres no atmosphere in the London (?) studio but must agree sky race coverage is slowly getting better. This post reminds me i need to cancel my NASN subscription,i try to watch nationwide races online or by some other means nowadays.
The editing was crazed - surely must have been a technical problem. Bizarre in the extreme.
:eek:
good grief - NASN had baseball on instead of the Nationwide race - I got to see GSYE and then it cut off. Great.
Tossas.
:mad:
PS: I had recorded it using a V+ box and the programme menus. grrrrr
How did you all find the Darlington coverage on sky last night? I thought it was the worse for quite sometime,the studio presenters liked the sound of their own voices too much and it seemed to me like they continued their own chat going when the fox broadcast was back on air.Also they cut away too soon from the victory burnouts and so much of our pre race show time was spent on Jeff Hammonds car of tomorrow/today review,like it hasnt been explained enough already. Nevertheless what a great win :)
A great win indeed!
Now what happened to Keith?! The man wida big nose we can't have this program with a different host ever few months.
Kieth was covering live gp speedway from Poland on saturday evening for sky sportsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rapier Racer
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Originally Posted by jeffmr2
Still got bad taste then Jeff!!!
I find the whole commentary thing somewhat irritating...i couldnt believe it a couple of weeks ago when Keith said there's no longer a National Guard car racing.. he must be the only person on the planet to have not seen Junior's car!!.
I miss the pre-race show but at least we get to see the race.
I had to miss it live, but never mind - I clicked the listing on my V+ box and MISSED THE LAST 15 LAPS ---- WTF !!!! :eek:
Anyone know of a setting I can use to cover unexpected extensions to programmes.
I caught the race end on a highlights show, but even so. Really frustrating.
PS: It is written Tuckman, so is it pronounced Tuck or Took-man as Keith says it. If it was me and one of the studio hosts got my name wrong, surely I would quietly suggest the real pronunciation while off air.
i always set the program after to record as well, just in case.Quote:
Originally Posted by colinspooky
I don't know about V+ but with Sky+ you can manually set it to record a chanel between times x and Y instead of relying on the EPG. I always do this for sporting events that are likely to run over. It is a pain to find on sky+ but when you do its worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by colinspooky
I expect there is a similar (difficult to find way of doing it with v+ too.
At the start of the season I never envisioned people calling for Keith to return to the show.
It was true they didnt cut back to the US feed quite as well the other night. It was annoying when they were there trying to work out what the problem was with the 18 when all they had to was go back to the FOX guys.
Somehow I think I'll stick with Five/Five US, as an hour (give or take) of guaranteed highlights seems to be better than heads-it's-on, tails-it-isn't on the stallactites... :s
By the way, I am loving the new "somebody's just overtaken" element of the leaderboard ticker as introduced last week. I notice they didn't try it out at Talladega... :D
I set the next couple of programs after nascar just in case of delays.Or you could set a manual record to start and finish when you wish.Quote:
Originally Posted by colinspooky
Says the Jeff Gordon fan!! Oooh and what about Barry being a jr fan,it doesnt get worse than that ha ha ha.How many races has he gone without winning lol!!Ok being honest i think jr is doing a great job,once he sacks his cousin the wins will surely come.Quote:
Originally Posted by earnhardt8
Ive also started liking Carl Edwards despite his driving for that really irritating Jack Roush so maybe your right about my taste in drivers!!
I agree with you about the sky coverage,we need the pre race show.
How you coping without the v8's at rockingham?It already seems like a distant memory,such a shame.
Connor is also now a die-hard Junior fan!!! I like Montoya, Franchitti & Harvick too!! (yep i have bad taste!!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffmr2
We went to the Touring Cars at Rockingham and will maybe take Connor to see a Pick-up's race as he loves trucks, but other than that i cant see us visiting Rockingham again.. Havent really missed it we lost interest when the car numbers dwindled .
What on earth are those god-awful sound effects Sky is using when they are chatting in the UK studio while screening pictures of the race during US ad breaks?
Sound like some old stock cars (bangers) from Arena Essex.
Surely they have recorded enough real NASCAR engine sounds by now - unless it's some sort of dumb copyright thing.
Silence would be better :eek:
It's not the sound effects that are bothering me. It's the God Awful Kyle Petty.
Jeez, silence would be better than him prattling on. Is he actually bringing anything to the table? Apart from experience of running at the back? :o hplease:
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Originally Posted by JovialJooles
At least Kyle can string a sentence together. Ive heard five year olds with greater grasp of the english language than Rusty Wallace. Great guy, great driver, terrible commentator.
I like both
The terrestrial perspective, once again:
With Five US' Monday evening showing sidelined because they're showing some freakishly tall people throwing balls in fishing nets on a pole (seems pointless as the nets have a big hole in the bottom; perhaps it's just me) I was stuck with the overnight Five showing instead. Not a lot different but you do get Diana Binks waffling on instead of the kick-ass, I mean kick-arse, theme tune. Now Diana knows her stuff, as her F3/GT experience shows, but she gets handed some right tosh to say at this time of night. Mispronouncing Pocono is one thing (I also got it wrong for years) but last year's race was apparently won by Kyle Busch Jr... That'll be Kurt then, who of course is the older of the brothers... :rolleyes:
I was just wondering how long NASN has been showing the Nationwide races live for this year? As far as I know they weren't doing at the start of the season. I finally crumbled and subscribed to Setanta because their football package is so strong for this season, but live NNS is the icing on the cake. Do they tend to show the pre-race stuff?
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Originally Posted by Simmi
As far as I know, there is no live broadcast - repeat on Monday afternoons - and no pre-race show that I have seen. Sometimes, my V+ box misses it because they have baseball on despite the EPG showing NASCAR, so I record a few hours afterwards too just in case they cock it up yet again - they have done at least twice so far, or someone has screwed it up ---- NASN or Virgin, someone.
Anyway, nothing live.
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skys still rubbish , still fed up with them , idiots.Rubbish attempt at post race interviews , boring commentry from sky studio and why cant they just go back to the states tv network after the break , think they like their voices to much .
IN A NUTSHELL SKY . JUST STICK TO SOCCER AND LEAVE NASCAR TO FOX ,TNT AND ESPN.DONT TRY TO MAKE IT YOUR OWN PLEASE
NASN has shown recently many Nationwide races live including some pre shows.Excellent.And even if there is rain delay they still stay on Nascar.Next one is next saturday night 2.00. 3 and half hours live + NASN show at least 4 magazine type programes(latest news, interviews and panel) every week. This all just ten pounds a month(one pound 43pence a programe)Quote:
Originally Posted by colinspooky
Sky commentary comes only then americans are having add breaks.So you miss nothing from USA. I know quite a lot of Nascar and in my humble view Sky commentary is quite good as long they keep that Robin guy away. We used to have pre shows in NASN but not in Sky,which is pity. Anyhow now with Sky and NASN we never have had it so good before.Quote:
Originally Posted by blown50stang
Sky's coverage is perfectly fine- the studio stuff happens during one of the many many ad breaks at the US end and the UK team are doing a damn fine job at providing additional info to viewers new to NASCARQuote:
Originally Posted by blown50stang
and to put it bluntly without the Sky deal we wouldn't have any live Sprint Cup coverage this year so moan away if you like but the alternative is not having live race coverage at all or spending 5 hours in front of the PC watching over the web- and if you think you can do a better job contact Sky Sports and volunteer your services
Actually, you are wrong. It would have been on NASN, where it would be unspoilt (ie no Sky blokes).Quote:
Originally Posted by djparky
PM me the application form. I can do a better job.Quote:
Originally Posted by djparky
Also theres the cost issue.Lets face it theres bugger all worth watching on the sky entertainment packages,if it wasnt for sprint cup i wouldnt have any sky subscription.So its costing me £34 per month instead of £13 per month.
The plus side of sky is when it rains my skybox doesnt freeze as often on sky sports as it does on NASN.
Wow your so right! I mean the worst thing NASN ever did was basically say screw you when the race was rain delayed, you got no coverage and no replay. Of course thats nothing compared to the atrocities we have to put up with over at sky...Quote:
Originally Posted by Delenn