Meh. The internet will kill TV in the next decade. We just have to suck it up til then

24 minutes ago, Uncle Fester said:

Meh. The internet will kill TV in the next decade. We just have to suck it up til then

Not with Turnbull and his Liberal cronies doing everything they can to sabotage the NBN and maintain Rupert's precious pay-TV monopoly.

1 minute ago, SaberFang said:

Not with Turnbull and the Liberal mob doing everything they can to sabotage the NBN from destroying Rupert's precious pay-TV stranglehold over us.

Yawn. These political things on here are as boring as watching Nth... no moreso... Nth looks entertaining compared to the irrelevant partisan crap posted here. Anyway, the internet is bigger than any government. Trying to bend it is as futile as Canute trying to stop the tide.TV is dead. It just doesn't know it. Ditto print media. Radio I think will survive for a while longer.

 

Point being that we are watching the fall of Rome when we watch these Norbits on free to air.

Living in Thailand I don't watch too many games but felt like listening to the Cats GWS last quarter today ([censored] if I know why). I tuned into SEN and put up with some absolute idiot just screaming every 10 seconds, and not even bothering to call the game. Unfortunately I think it was Ox.

After reading these posts, I am glad that I don't have television and am forced to watch the games live surrounded by fellow one-eyed Demon commentators.

12 hours ago, Forest Demon said:

I actually apologised to the Mrs and kids today for the my anger at both the umpires and commentators. They both frustrated me in equal doses.

i had to mute the commentary for 95% of the game. When i heard that fool call Trennners  "Jackson" I went apoplectic. If I want to listen to biased nonsensical claptrap, i'll listen to Eddie McGuire.

6 hours ago, CBDees said:

After reading these posts, I am glad that I don't have television and am forced to watch the games live surrounded by fellow one-eyed Demon commentators.

Who are often equally as clueless.

8 hours ago, SaberFang said:

Not with Turnbull and his Liberal cronies doing everything they can to sabotage the NBN and maintain Rupert's precious pay-TV monopoly.

And I thought the NBN was to provide Hospitals, Schools and Businesses in regional and rural Australia with better internet access..hahaha

2 hours ago, pineapple dee said:

i had to mute the commentary for 95% of the game. When i heard that fool call Trennners  "Jackson" I went apoplectic. If I want to listen to biased nonsensical claptrap, i'll listen to Eddie McGuire.

Eddie is actually one of the better commentators going around, provided he's nowhere near Collingwood.

FWIW Simon Goodwin is a panelist on Gameday with Max Gawn to be a guest later on.

13 hours ago, AngryAtCasey said:

Channel 7 could do with a clean out, and they would be able to do it easy enough, just concentrate on having two commentary teams. A Friday/Saturday Night team and a Saturday/Sunday afternoon team for each week. Two commentators, two special comments commentators and a boundary rider each.

 

 

Couldn't happen with a national game. This week for instance, Friday night in Tassle,  Saturday night in Perth

11 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

FWIW Simon Goodwin is a panelist on Gameday with Max Gawn to be a guest later on.

You couldn't pay me to watch that garbage show.

Agree with all those comments about the poor standard of commentary. My main bugbear is the standard of Ch 7 camerawork when most of the time the camera takes a birds eye view of the game. Now I may be aging and many think I'm dead but seriously my eyesight is not the bad. But half the time you may as well as be watching ants running around the ground. For me it has got to the stage that I can't be bothered to watch as most of the action is missed. 

19 hours ago, Forest Demon said:

Usually the channel 7 team don't bother me, but today was painful.

Basil is either an idiot or one of the great trolls, calling Trenners "Jackson" at the start of the call. I suspect the former. Dead set, it's not that hard to get names right, and it is literally your job.

A week or so back he interviewed Leon Cameron during the game & thought he was the Bulldogs coach. Not the first time he hasn't had a clue.

4 hours ago, pineapple dee said:

i had to mute the commentary for 95% of the game. When i heard that fool call Trennners  "Jackson" I went apoplectic. If I want to listen to biased nonsensical claptrap, i'll listen to Eddie McGuire.

Tim Watson should be made to eat socks during the commentary.   His superiority & arrogant way is an insult to the ears.

Tim Watson what a pain, he is a legend in his own wallet.  obviously has far too much power at channel 7.

1 hour ago, Mickey said:

Couldn't happen with a national game. This week for instance, Friday night in Tassle,  Saturday night in Perth

Didn't realise it took 24 hours to fly from Hobart to Perth?

Channel 10 seem to manage it with the Big Bash. Regularly they'll do a match on the east coast and the following night in Perth and at least one of their three commentators was doubling up.

19 hours ago, ickey_11 said:

Watson did a great job over interpreting everything. I wonder why he failed as a coach....

Couldn't agree more.  I found myself cursing and swearing at Watson's inane comments, more than I did for some of the totally outlandish umpiring calls ........... and that's really saying something!

3 hours ago, AngryAtCasey said:

Didn't realise it took 24 hours to fly from Hobart to Perth?

Channel 10 seem to manage it with the Big Bash. Regularly they'll do a match on the east coast and the following night in Perth and at least one of their three commentators was doubling up.

Not for 6 months of the year. It is easier for them to have a number of teams ready to go, expecting two teams to travel that often just wouldn't happen

What really pees me off is the lack of pre-game shows, these days, with analysis of the upcoming game, coach interviews etc.  Yesterday, Fox Footy had Eddie rabbiting on from the studio, with virtually no comment of our game until they crossed to the ground for the start of play.  I realise it was a 7 broadcast, but here in Qld it wasn't shown on 7, so only option was Fox.  Surely they could piggy back on any pre-game stuff from 7, and not just the game itself!

17 hours ago, Uncle Fester said:

Meh. The internet will kill TV in the next decade. We just have to suck it up til then

As someone who works in the industry, I believe live sport will simply transition on to mobile, transient devices. There will still be a need for commentary teams to commentate games. You'll just be able to watch it by streaming it on a streaming provider's device.

The AFL distribution deal is linked to the continuing financial success of the game itself, so I doubt they'll self-distribute off their website and charge AFL fans to watch it. That could signal the long term death of the game (then again they are amateurs in so many different ways the AFL), but instead I think they'll sell the rights to a new sporting streaming provider.

FOXTEL will die and is dying a slow death and is trying to transition itself across mobile devices, hence FOXTEL GO, but its medium is inherently flawed and outdated. Whoever manages to start the first sporting streaming service in this country will make billions and billions of dollars. As FOXTEL are seeing with the EPL rights though, if you lose the rights, your entire platform fails. So in effect, your entire business plan is contingent on winning the rights, otherwise you're stuffed for the term of that deal. The flimsiness of this model could well be the reason why it hasn't happened quite yet. If I had more money though or was Rupert Murdoch, that's where I'd be putting it. 

Interesting times ahead, but there'll always be a need for commentators. It's more entertaining, particularly if the commentators are half decent.

16 hours ago, SaberFang said:

Not with Turnbull and his Liberal cronies doing everything they can to sabotage the NBN and maintain Rupert's precious pay-TV monopoly.

That's how Tony got in the last time and one of the major reasons for it. Rupert was using his News Corp muscle to protect his billions tied up in FOXTEL.

Rupert is a conservative, but he's happy to bat for either side of politics if it suits his business interests.

4 hours ago, Mickey said:

Not for 6 months of the year. It is easier for them to have a number of teams ready to go, expecting two teams to travel that often just wouldn't happen

But they wouldn't need to do it every week. How many times this year are 7 showing an east coast game friday night & perth game saturday night. Most weeks i'd imagine it's two Melbourne games or a Melbourne game followed by a 1 hour flight the following night to Adelaide or Sydney.

I don't deny that it's easier having commentary teams set up in each city, but that's exactly what the issue is. If you only had two teams you'd be able to just use quality rather then spread it thin like now.

Gerrard Whatley is the pick of them IMO.

There are too many commentators who are intoxicated from drinking their own bath water.

Commentaring died the moment all the stats became available online

Remember when Mike Williamson and Butch Gale used to just call the game as it unfolded. They didn't question a decision. They just called what was happening in front of them regardless. 

13 hours ago, AngryAtCasey said:

But they wouldn't need to do it every week. How many times this year are 7 showing an east coast game friday night & perth game saturday night. Most weeks i'd imagine it's two Melbourne games or a Melbourne game followed by a 1 hour flight the following night to Adelaide or Sydney.

I don't deny that it's easier having commentary teams set up in each city, but that's exactly what the issue is. If you only had two teams you'd be able to just use quality rather then spread it thin like now.

Fair point.