I'm loving the new sport channel OneHD. As someone who has never had Foxtel but always wanted it for the 24 hour sport channels, One HD is right down my alley. Yesterday made me laugh though, I was watching the Cubs take on Arizona in the MLB and kinda getting into it as a closet Cubs fan even though I knew it was a replay. Knowing that it was a replay I'd avoided looking up the score, when during the 5th inning an ad for Sports Tonight came on. Needless to say they immediately gave away the final score. It reminded me of the old Channel 7 footy broadcasts when they'd remind you that if you didn't want to know the final score to look away, while the commentator proceded to read the score out.
I was actually surprised the score got a mention at all. With baseball being such a minor sport in Australia I'm sure they could have found something else to mention. One thing I have noticed though is the scoreboard tickers running along the bottom of the screen during the US sports broadcasts. Surely that would be a great idea for the TV stations in Australia. Over the weekend there's games from 3 football codes being played. Why can't we have a ticker rolling along the bottom giving us updates from all those games. If they can manage it on Sunrise in the morning then surely they could manage it during the footy broadcast.
An increase in co-operation between codes rather than competition is better for all sports fans because we have more choices, which in turn leads to increased and better coverage of sport in general.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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