The BBC and its utter obsession with the Olympics.
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Digger said:
SeeFive said:
Just to cheer you up a little more, in addition to the domination of the main channels, look further down the Sky TV channel guide and you will find around 16 (didn't actually count) new channels. All BBC olympics channels showing different sports.
Thanks for that as I hadn't spotted it!The rest of you miserable feckwits, go and knit yourselves a couple of jumpers for the Winter!
This is utterly astonishing. I've been abroad on holiday for the last couple of weeks & have seen Olympic highlights on local TV, & a sport channel showing most of the stuff.
However, I've just been watching BBC1 - non-stop coverage up to 6pm, then the 6 O'clock news with almost 15 minutes of coverage. I wanted to watch the news FFS!!!!!
This is bordering on the ridiculous - I love spending my TVstealth tax license on this s
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However, I've just been watching BBC1 - non-stop coverage up to 6pm, then the 6 O'clock news with almost 15 minutes of coverage. I wanted to watch the news FFS!!!!!
This is bordering on the ridiculous - I love spending my TV
t....Biker 1 said:
This is utterly astonishing. I've been abroad on holiday for the last couple of weeks & have seen Olympic highlights on local TV, & a sport channel showing most of the stuff.
However, I've just been watching BBC1 - non-stop coverage up to 6pm, then the 6 O'clock news with almost 15 minutes of coverage. I wanted to watch the news FFS!!!!!
This is bordering on the ridiculous - I love spending my TVstealth tax license on this st....
BBC1 news at 6. Local news 6.30. BBC News at 10, local 10.30, Newsnight on as normal. There's a BBC news channel. You're talking sHowever, I've just been watching BBC1 - non-stop coverage up to 6pm, then the 6 O'clock news with almost 15 minutes of coverage. I wanted to watch the news FFS!!!!!
This is bordering on the ridiculous - I love spending my TV
t....t.Derek Smith said:
Indeed.
I enjoy certain sports and those I don't like I can turn over or off. That said, my wife enjoys watching rowing. Like golf but with more competitors in shot.
I'm with you about golf.
And no more criticism of Helen Skelton.
She's awful, although to be fair a lot of the people she's working alongside are equally awful; overly familiar, inappropriate, irrelevant wittering pours from their lips simply because they(or the producers whispering in their earpieces) cannot bear a moment of silence on the ether and are manically compelled to fill it with whatever inanity spills out of their mouths. The commentators aren't much better, snidey remarks about swimmers using delaying tactics to acquire a psychological advantage when it's patently obvious that the last man out of the changing room deserves just as much time to prepare themselves on the starting blocks as the first; it's a consequence of the bizarre 'catwalk parade' that has been inflicted on swimming events, presumably for the sole benefit of broadcasters.I enjoy certain sports and those I don't like I can turn over or off. That said, my wife enjoys watching rowing. Like golf but with more competitors in shot.
I'm with you about golf.
And no more criticism of Helen Skelton.
Some Gump said:
BBC1 news at 6. Local news 6.30. BBC News at 10, local 10.30, Newsnight on as normal. There's a BBC news channel. You're talking st.
bt.ks. I must take issue with that. Newsnight is lefty biased total st anyway, which I refuse to watch. BBC News channel is amateur at best. I just said I wanted to watch the news, & rather than the important issues, such as Brexit, middle east, etc, I get the first 50% of the 'News' as Olympic summary, which they had just summarised on the previous Olympic coverage show. So you're 'talking st'. I don't like that sort of language & don't normally stoop to such low levels. But FFS - this thread is about BBC obsession with Olympic coverage, & that is exactly what I've seen. Its crapWell, I'm loving it.
For 2 weeks every four years we get a break from football's total overwhelming domination of sports coverage, and we get to enjoy British competitors beating the world.
Many of the Olympic sports are thrilling to watch. The track cycling has had me screaming at the TV tonight, urging Team GB to victory.
And as for the women's diving and beach volleyball....What's not to enjoy?
For 2 weeks every four years we get a break from football's total overwhelming domination of sports coverage, and we get to enjoy British competitors beating the world.
Many of the Olympic sports are thrilling to watch. The track cycling has had me screaming at the TV tonight, urging Team GB to victory.
And as for the women's diving and beach volleyball....What's not to enjoy?
Biker 1 said:
bks. I must take issue with that. Newsnight is lefty biased total st anyway, which I refuse to watch. BBC News channel is amateur at best. I just said I wanted to watch the news, & rather than the important issues, such as Brexit, middle east, etc, I get the first 50% of the 'News' as Olympic summary, which they had just summarised on the previous Olympic coverage show. So you're 'talking st'. I don't like that sort of language & don't normally stoop to such low levels. But FFS - this thread is about BBC obsession with Olympic coverage, & that is exactly what I've seen. Its crap
You could take an English grammar class to fill the time.ks. I must take issue with that. Newsnight is lefty biased total st anyway, which I refuse to watch. BBC News channel is amateur at best. I just said I wanted to watch the news, & rather than the important issues, such as Brexit, middle east, etc, I get the first 50% of the 'News' as Olympic summary, which they had just summarised on the previous Olympic coverage show. So you're 'talking st'. I don't like that sort of language & don't normally stoop to such low levels. But FFS - this thread is about BBC obsession with Olympic coverage, & that is exactly what I've seen. Its crapIm really enjoying it. Watching stuff you dont normally watch. Canoeing on tv at any other time in a 4 year cycle is eurosport 2 fodder. The olympics gives these sports a chance to shine. The trampolining was amazing yesterday.
The only thing spoiling it is the obsession to get it onto BBC1 whilst retaining news, eastenders etc on the same channel. Why not just call BBC2 the olympics channel? That alongside BBC4 with BBC1 for overflow when 3 massive events are on.
The only thing spoiling it is the obsession to get it onto BBC1 whilst retaining news, eastenders etc on the same channel. Why not just call BBC2 the olympics channel? That alongside BBC4 with BBC1 for overflow when 3 massive events are on.
Emeye said:
Trying and failing to avoid the Olympics. Not interested at all.
Well I wasn't until my friend mentioned the ladies Volleyball....
Fill yer boots.....Well I wasn't until my friend mentioned the ladies Volleyball....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3cxjTbJLc
ukaskew said:
Don't mind the coverage, but talking up being 'second' in a medal table that they've created themselves...come on. I only happened to realise this a few Olympics ago when I was in another country, and they were using a 'total medal' table, presumably because it suited them better.
Assuming you're referring to the table being ranked on number of golds won? - because that's the official method of ranking.Er, the medal table that the BBC are using is the same setup being used by other nations, including the US in their coverage, whereby the classification / placement in the medal table is classed on the most gold medals won during competition NOT total medals.
The BBC are reporting that we're second in the medal table because at this current moment in time, based on gold medals won to date, we are in second. I'm not sure how the BBC can be criticised for that tbh.
Or would you prefer that they spent all their time hyping up all the other nations achievement instead of ours?
As posted earlier on, this thread is just another fantastic example of people that already hate the BBC trying to find whatever lame, non entity of a reason that they can to crap on them.
The BBC are reporting that we're second in the medal table because at this current moment in time, based on gold medals won to date, we are in second. I'm not sure how the BBC can be criticised for that tbh.
Or would you prefer that they spent all their time hyping up all the other nations achievement instead of ours?
As posted earlier on, this thread is just another fantastic example of people that already hate the BBC trying to find whatever lame, non entity of a reason that they can to crap on them.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Sunday 14th August 21:12
ukaskew said:
Trabi601 said:
Assuming you're referring to the table being ranked on number of golds won? - because that's the official method of ranking.
There is no official medal table, period. Whilst there isn't a truly 'official' table, the IOC publishes a table 'for information', ranked by gold medals. That's good enough for me (and, it seems, most nation's Olympic organisations)
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