Football fans finally get a taste what F1 fans had to deal with from ITV

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Originally Posted by call_me_andrew

There was another situation like that in the U.S. last April. Fox was showing a baseball game in the afternoon and a NASCAR race at night. When the baseball game was delayed by rain it overlapped with the race. Fox cut away from the game with one out remaining to show the race which had already started. Baseball fans were outraged because they missed the end of the game. Race fans were outraged because they missed the start of the race.

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The rule of thumb was to stay with the game to the conclusion.

Especially NASCAR, where the show goes on for 4 hours and the start of the race is more processional than anything else. No matter how good the technology is, etc. one can always count on the stupidity of programming directors everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Have a heart for those of us that like both sports, I had to put up with the Imola incident and last nights balls up.

I went f***king mental when they went to an ad and then returned for us to see the Everton players celebrating a goal. ITV are an embarassment of a TV station and should be put down as soon as possible because they do absolutely nothing of any value. 120 minutes of football and they manage to miss the most important part :angryfire

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I can understand your frustration, i felt exactly the same way. Quite frankly, why the BBC decided not to keep their coverage of cup matches and England matches, i have no idea. ITv always seems to mess it up somehow, and it just isn't the same as Motty, Lineker, Hansen and co in pre and post match analysis.

At least we can thank god that the BBC took F1 back......

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Originally Posted by truefan72

way back when I used to live in Austria, the best part of watching F1 and Tv for that matter was that advertising was minimized to pre and post events in small 5 minute blocks or non at all.. This might have to do with tje stations being state owned rather than private, but it was a joy too watch.

Later as I moved around and got to see other coverage, I increasingly grew tired of the "meddling" tv ads in broadcast coverage. Sports like soccer and F1 are the least sutiable ofr in game interruptions.

Speed TV is by far the worst in terms of incesnt TV interruptions in F1 coverage. I wan;t even discuss Fox tv or CBS when they carried it becuase that to me wetre more novelties than real broadcasts. Sometimes their ads run for 6-7 minutes with mini infomercials on.

I wonder why Speed cannot figure out to use a Soccer style advertising scheme with in stream ad logos and mentions , or perhaps a bottom area banner style or side by side view( ala gol TV). We live in modern times they can figure it out. I do not need to watch a 5 minute ad for a weed whacker at 7am.

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I think a lot of it involves the reliance on network affiliates in North American broadcasting. An affiliate requires that they get a certain amount of advertising time for every certain amount of real time. And the same still applies to cable and satellite tv. SPEED still has to reach deals with the cable and satellite companies carrying it about how much advertising time they can sell in a broadcast.