BBC coverage..

any one tried the bbc facebook games none hav worked foe me

annibel r sue?

Jun 29, 2012 -- 3:00PM, ronin4s wrote:

any one tried the bbc facebook games none hav worked foe me

why would you waste your time like that?

bbc showing tennis on fbook now.

https://apps.facebook.com/bbcsport/events/wimbledon/2012/p00vgf82/

https://apps.facebook.com/bbcsport/events/wimbledon/2012/p00vgf82/

i dont have facebook on my telly only red button :(

:(

Be great if they actually show some tennis.

I was just going to say, I find it staggering that they think we prefer watching this sh1t as opposed to Ivanovic v Goerges.

Shocking is too nice a word for it.

Finally. 21 minutes and 37 seconds in they manage to find some tennis. They've had all morning to talk about the tournament, not during play ffs.

GARBAGE was too mild a word, so please accept my apologies..

haha sounds like aussie broadcasters when there are aussies in the field....great they are all out by the 2nd round

Why do BBC put Wimbledon Today on at 8pm to show that days highlights when they have live tennis still being played. Put it back to 9pm or later. I noticed they scrubbed it to show all of the Rosol v Nadal match

8pm is fine. The Wimbledon organisers know all matches will long be finished if they start at an early time like 1pm, even if, god forbid, not all the matches are straight sets.

What's peeeeesed me off is when they keep switching some of the main matches from red button to main channel, removing them from red button at the same time - and vice-versa -occasionally with lengthy waits before they actually appear.  Haven't those options always remained on RB regardless of whether they were on the main channels prior to this year?

Is there any chance the BBC will lose Wimbledon coverage too? Think this would be a good thing as their coverage, like all their sports coverage, is tired, stale and one big gravy train for all their favourite presenters, many of whom are former failed British tennis players who never even won a Slam like Castle, Henman, Lloyd and Petchey, ant the king of smug smarminess Inverdale.
Mind you, the Beeb's archaic coverage suits the Wimbledon organisers and schedulers who are an archaic mob. They regularly ruin classic matches on Court 1 by insisting on starting at 1pm despite loads of rain being around, resulting in the last game being suspended at a key moment.
On 'People's Saturday' we are supposed to applaud roundly at all the showbiz glitterati/hangers on who get to see it for free and sachmooze in the Royal Box.
Apart from the price of tickets being extortionate, how do you get a seat in one of the show courts? You have to kip the night in a tent, get up at the crack of dawn, and finally, when you get to the gates - invariably after play has already begun - some grey old suit slaps a sticker on you saying, 'Well done, you queued at Wimbledon'.
They may as well instead stick one on your forehead that says, 'You are a c*nt'.

Have a small wager on Azarenka for the whole tournament so pressed the red button for her game - you press 1 for full screen and the sound disappears!

Interview with Lucic as Williams moves into a first set tiebreak....

Oh, its on BBC1 too! i suppose i should take that back.

STOP FACKING CHANGING THE RED BUTTON MATCHES YOU UTTER CAAAAANTTS.

just leave on the same match for its duration.

truly dreadful in every way
had to watch Kohli Rosol on the website which was a good 10 seconds delayed from the TV snippet Sue talked over at 7-6 in tiebreak
gob****s: inverdale, castle etc

it was pretty special when they were wanking on about brian baker this morning in the first half hour of the main program when they don't show any tennis, but the guy was actually playing his match

mind boggling. this red button switching is driving me nuts though. it's almost as though they're trying to prove just how much sh1tter they are than sky.

it's actually pretty incredible, given that the digital switchover is largely complete, that they don't use bbc3 and bbc4 during the day to allow them to start their coverage at 11, dish out the chit chat for 35 minutes and then switch to the fecking tennis when it starts.

you can show Saturday kitchen and Homes under the facking hammer on the additional channels.

Aren't they having something like 25 simultaneous streams for the Olympics?

roddick ferrer has started, and the bbc are advertising it

muppets

I was annoyed when I turned the radio on earlier to find them commentating courtside about Murray's practice session with Golding while there were matches going on they could have been talking about.

Why have an interview with Federer and miss the beginning of the Roddick match?

what's even worse is the little **** advert they prepared for it. then they were showing it when roddick was breaking

useless

Whats more they somehow managed to get Bolettieri to commentate for the radio, and to be fair he knows his stuff, but then they put him alongside that female tennis superstar that is.. Mattek-Sands.

and she doesnt stop referring to mental strength, which considering her inability to serve matches out, is laughable.

Apart from that idiot John Lloyd (how did he get this job?) and Virginia Wade, the coverage is good. Okay they amke mistakes but you can watch the match on red button.

I dont mind Wade, her voice is annoying, but she talks sense. All Lloyd does is say the same phrases over and over again until all the viewers are asleep.

John Lloyd reminds me of the type of person that would be in a pub while the England match is on, talking to the pub owner at the end of the bar about how he is unable to water his pot plants because of the hosepipe ban.

More brilliance!!  Only missed one whole service game and the first point of the next in the channel swap....

i loved mcanroe on commentary when he said to fellow commentator former player(dont remember who it was)

"...but you dont know this feeling as you never been in this situation"

AGGGHH

Agree with johnyrant   'Mind you, the Beeb's archaic coverage suits the Wimbledon organisers and schedulers who are an archaic mob. They regularly ruin classic matches on Court 1 by insisting on starting at 1pm despite loads of rain being around, resulting in the last game being suspended at a key moment.
On 'People's Saturday' we are supposed to applaud roundly at all the showbiz glitterati/hangers on who get to see it for free and sachmooze in the Royal Box.'

It seemed to go on forever all these gravy trainers standing up and down like meerkats.
I'm surprised there was any room left for the general public.

as for the red button,they giveth and then take away,the other day showing five minutes of a ladies match then switching to a mens match,with no way to watch previous match on either channel or red button.

they also used to show more courts on red button.this is probably due to budget restrictions,having spent too much on muliple pundits/'experts' who are paid from our licence fee to drone on and on.

Why the british public still have to pay the bbc a licence fee for a vastly reduced service than previous generations
having lost most sports to cable/satelite broad-casters.

The time has arrived that the bbc should be pay per view then anyone who wants to watch poor sports coverage,depressing soap operas,old films,'talent' shows etc. can stump the money up or not.

Was trying to watch yesterday, and the schedule said wimbledon coverage yet on beeb1 and 2 they were showing stuff like Top of the Pops or something - the matches were actually showing on red button, but wtf???

..anyone know why they weren't showing it when even their own schedule said they were!?

this is just fuc kin ridiculous what they do with this matches.switching all over the place on set points to show worm ups to switch to another match

wtf¡!!!!!!!!!

Pafettic innit.

beggars belief that the fed match in not on either bbc 1 or bbc 2 at the moment

did they mention who the bird was sitting next to Scotty Pippen ?!

I'm watching the bike peddling. Was she fittable ?

yes, I'd like to Google her.

Was watching the Schiavone Kvitova match on BBC2 until the rain delay at the climax of set 2.  They decide to replay some of the Masha match during the delay but don't bother to go back when Kvitova restarts and takes the set.  Awful, awful from The Beeb.

Yep, Barker making excuses but it's been a bad performance from the start..

FOR FOOK SAKE

WE NEED TO PAY MORE FOR OUR TV LICENCE

Un-effing-believable. There's only one match on court, and the Beeb leave it to show a replay of the Fed tiebreak.

I seriously could crush a marshmallow at the moment..

I like Claire Balding's commentary, they should give her the tennis correspondent job.

I might be wrong, but I thought she was leaving the Beeb since they've pretty much lost all their racing coverage.

I wouldnt blame her. She is probably their best sports commentator/presenter and could a lot more money elsewhere.

get

She could take over Eddie Hemmings job for a start..

they are keeping us in suspense with the federer result

ffs

i wonder who won it, please tell me sue

I just wondered that. I went out and came back and had more money in my account so presumed Fed had won. I noticed the money was in my account and then she went and said that. I was nearly confused. Sue might catch up by the final.

well they are waiting till it rains so they can show it us

i just wish they'd show us now

the bbc still thinks we're in the 80s.. the way they tell us to 'look away now' before motd comes on

Jonathan Overend..

Djokovic v Troicki

'Good shot across court there, and the Serb goes into the net'

The roof should have already been closed innit.

If you couldn't see all this incompetence with your own eyes you couldn't possibly make it up in all honesty , piss up , brewery e.t.c   

I can't believe the CEO used to run Rugby League..

Poor coverage is the same every year! Many other countries coverage of Wimbledon is better than ours as they have true multi screen and not some half arse effect as with the BBC.

Sky do it great when they have the US Open on...

That's one event. Other sat providers across Europe covers all Grand Slams in the way they should be covered, giving the viewer true multi screen court choice that doesn't flick from one court to another (as with the Beeps 'multi screen'). In the US ALL Grand Slams are covered for free, again full multi screen. In short, the UK't tennis coverage sucks.

BBC were showing same games on both HD channels at the same time ! Pathetic !!!!!

In the US ALL Grand Slams are covered for free, again full multi screen

ESPN has rights to a lot of Grand Slam tennis, particularly the early rounds - This is not a free channel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_in_the_United_States#Tennis

oh dear, switching randomly, but they gave good reason this time: "...to make sure, you get variety..."  PMSL

Lol BBC are a joke, are they showing the ladies QF on court 1? Nope they are showing old man doubles The sooner this corporation lose all live sport the better it will be for everyone!

you all have a choice what to watch ffs

In fairness, I don't mind the court switching thing. If they're showing something on the main channels, it makes little sense to show the same something on the red button as well.  The 'variety' reason is actually a pretty good one.

'Who would have thought it,' says Sue. 'A game that started at 2.10, gets called off at 7.45pm' - err, anyone bother to check the weather forecast. Dry all morning too. An utter insult to the people who paid fortunes for Court 1 tickets today - not only do they not see the game finished, but the other game scheduled for Court 1 moves to Centre Court. Why do we accept it as a nation?

Well that is the risk you take if you buy tickets to Wimbledon. In olden days, none of the Court 1 matches would have been played anywhere, so they haven't exactly lost out.   I think asking 'why do we accept it as a nation' is perhaps a touch OTT....

You've clearly never camped overnight, Cooee, and queued all morning for showcourt tickets, and got a Court 1 ticket. It could easily be resolved by starting the matches earlier. Time and again, they seem to disregard the weather forecast which today would have showed them, dry in the morning, rain on and off for remainder of day. Court 1 ticket holders from today should have their storming of the Bastille moment after yet another day of farcical scheduling by bumbling official-dom.

Ther's a quarter final going on and there showing farkin highlights !!!

I do agree on earlier starting times. Although it probably wouldn't have helped today - wasn't it pouring it down for at least an hour before play started?  As I understood it, people were quite shocked that it suddenly stopped raining just in time for the tennis to start, as many had expected the start of play to be delayed considerably. (That guffle with the CC roof not having been closed beforehand was a complete joke though.)

The Beeb are unbelievably incompetent. Do tennis fans want to listen to Inverdale chatting about the day's highlights, or watch a live quarter final?
Theyn should play on the middle Sunday, and morning starts when bad weather around. It was certainly dry at 10am. Would make it a much fairer Slam for players and spectators alike. Would modernise the whole tournament.

Well most of the slams have a certain amount of 'unfairness'. How many times in the US Open does one of the finalists have to play a final and a SF on consecutive days, while the other finalist gets a day off. It's just the luck of the draw.

And this has been a very bad year in terms of rainfall in this country. Usually the CC roof would be enough to sort out the backlog.   They could certainly relax the starting times, but there are more important things happening in the world. It's not like they haven't got through virtually all of the games today.

Yes, but not in a remotely sensible or convenient way. Radwanska match will now re-start for what, the 5th or 6th time today... and now finishing on a different court.
Put a roof on Court 1 ffs - it turns the whole thing into a farce, which is dfitting given the Beeb's coverage.

they are going to build one

ffs you seem a right ****

you'll be moaning when they've built that, that the other courts don't have one

and you must be about 12 if these rain delays are new to you

the weather can't be controlled

Well they do have plans to put in a roof.  These things do cost money though, Johnny, and even putting on the CC roof wasn't without controversy.         Wimbledon is still quite unusual for being a slam venue that has a roof - the French Open got into quite a backlog this year, due to its lack of a roof, and the US Open always has problems with matches rained off - usually very important ones. How many years now have we seen Monday finals in the US?

One problem with having the roof, is that constantly putting it up becomes too much of a temptation.     And, presumably, when Court 1 has a roof, people will complain because matches played on Court 2 etc. have to be rain-delayed, so the whole thing will escalate.   This is supposed to be an outdoors tournament, but it could easily become a rather crappy indoors one by default.

It's been a very rainy season. That's all.   Today hasn't exactly been the end of the world.

Ooh, 'Has this ever happened before' beat me to the punch...  I like ironically named forum posters!

Has this ever happened before? 03 Jul 12 21:28 
and you must be about 12 if these rain delays are new to you

the weather can't be controlled

And you must be a total c*ck to throw out insults so happily without offering any semblance of an argument. Of course they are not new - it is a strong argument for the very reason it has gone on for 20+ years there.

A roof on Court 1 is a no-brainer. F*ck the cost. It is a far greater cost by turning Wimbledon into a nonsene tourno on years when there is rain about.

It's *not* a nonsense tourno!  The games went ahead today. They're not back on schedule.  And nobody was really disadvantaged.  Wimbledon is still advanced in this regard compared to most of the other slam venues.

Classic matches have been ruined time and time again because they started too late and the light goes by about 9pm. To ask players to complete matches in this stop/start fashion is a nonsense and makes a mockery of Slam tennis. Yes, it's grass, yes, grass gets wet when it rains but a simple solution is a roof on Court 1, and playing on the middle Sunday. Not sure Kirilenko will consider that q/f particularly fair.
At least we no longer have finals completed on a Monday but the scheduling is still outdated and an embarrassment which, as stated previously, is perfectly in keeping with the BBC's coverage.

Well in a few years time we will have a roof over court 1, and you can change your name and stop posting these rants. There'll still be unfairnesses, because that's always the case with tournaments - scheduling quirks and mishaps often cause these problems. There'll still be matches postponed because the earlier matches went on too long. And we, the audience, will have to put up with more indoor matches in an outdoor tournament, and with more good matches going on at the same time as other good matches, rather than being able to watch almost everything - as has largely been the case today, since there's often only been one match on at a time.   

There are advantages and disadvantages to every situation. You, though, seem to be the sort of person who likes to have a good rage, as though everything has been done on purpose, just to spite tennis players or the audience.

(Oh, while we're at it, are you going to make a sizeable contribution to the costs of the roof for Court 1?  Saying f*ck the cost is all very well, but somebody does have to pay for these things, and well-run sports clubs do generally have to budget for expensive features - would you rather they borrowed all the money and then raised the ticket prices in order to pay for the interest payments???)

Jul 3, 2012 -- 10:00PM, johnnyrant wrote:

Classic matches have been ruined time and time again because they started too late and the light goes by about 9pm. To ask players to complete matches in this stop/start fashion is a nonsense and makes a mockery of Slam tennis. Yes, it's grass, yes, grass gets wet when it rains but a simple solution is a roof on Court 1, and playing on the middle Sunday. Not sure Kirilenko will consider that q/f particularly fair.At least we no longer have finals completed on a Monday but the scheduling is still outdated and an embarrassment which, as stated previously, is perfectly in keeping with the BBC's coverage.

Last month?

I actually agree on the light issue. That Goerges match in the French Open, for instance, was very unsatisfactory. They should have a light meter (as they do in cricket), and when it gets below a certain level, it should be possible for the match to be suspended if either player (or the ump) objects. It would have to be quite a low light level, obviously, but that would get rid of those unfair situations where the players are forced to carry on just in order to finish the day's schedule.

Yes, of course that was sad to see in the Paris final but Wimbledon is consistently the biggest culprit.

The US is the biggest culprit. There're so many unfair scheduling issues towards the end of the US Open. And they virtually never finish on the Sunday.   If Wimbledon can afford one roof (with plans to fit a second), you'd think the US Open, with all the money sloshing around in that country, could have at least one covered court.

Jul 3, 2012 -- 10:24PM, johnnyrant wrote:

Yes, of course that was sad to see in the Paris final but Wimbledon is consistently the biggest culprit.

It's Britain. It rains during the summer. How many times have the (main) events overrun. I can think of only one.

1988 and 2001 are the only 2 times i can remember the mens final being played on monday

the us open is by the far the worst culprit. ludicrous scheduling which leaves no margin if error if it rains and when it does no court covers and a handful of blokes with tea towels mopping up the courts

Well we all seem agreed then - the Yanks are useless ****s. Let's parachute in Johnnyrant to force them to sort it all out...

this self indulgent sh1t is embarrassing.

Was that supposed to be dramatic?

Pile of old cack

there's absolutely no need to invent some ridiculous narrative when the real one is more interesting.