Re: BBC qualifying coverage at Brazil '09
Andy Hewitt
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
>
> And no advert breaks :)
>
> That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
Respect I say, that was almost a 5 hour show.
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> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
>
> And no advert breaks :)
>
> That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
The BBC completely wrecked their BBC2 evening schedule to do this. They
are, of course contractually obliged to show qualifying but unlike ITV
chose to stay with it, even when there seemed little prospect of any
track action.
Thanks you, BBC from me too!
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Ian Rawlings
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
Yes it was a good call, I noticed that various F1 news sites were
stating that Nico Rosberg was on Pole long before the session had
actually terminated! I was wondering if we were watching the race on
time delay and they'd given away the results, or whether the news
sites had actually jumped the gun or not. Seems like the latter.
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Ian White
> On 2009-10-17, Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
>> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
>> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
>> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
>> be running or not.
>
> Yes it was a good call, I noticed that various F1 news sites were
> stating that Nico Rosberg was on Pole long before the session had
> actually terminated! I was wondering if we were watching the race on
> time delay and they'd given away the results, or whether the news
> sites had actually jumped the gun or not. Seems like the latter.
>
Better than that from here, Sarah wanted to watch Cum-dancing, so I
watched the remainder of qualifying on the laptop.
BBC iPlayer ... it's the future, I've licked it.
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Ian
Yellow
Not quite - it started at 5:20pm and ended at around 8:30pm so that's
three hours but whatever, it was brilliant and personally, I rather
enjoyed the impromptu interviews and chat that filled the time.
I also think Jake Humphrey did well in his job of holding it all
together.
Dunno if it was because they'd been couped up in the commentary box for
too long, but I also enjoyed Brundle's tetchiness with Legard when he
called pole with 3 minutes to go, and then again with 2 minutes to go.
Legard's over-excitement had obviously been held waiting on a knife edge
for too long and the poor man just could not help himself but Brundle's
frustration, usually held just about in check, was clear for all to
hear.
I think Brundle has the patience of a saint but I wish sometimes he had
just a little less and would put his foot down when Legard switches to
"horse-race" mode. :-)
MarkG
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
>
> And no advert breaks :)
>
> That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
Actually, I'm extremely pissed off with BBC. I had it on Sky+ record, and
it obviously did not record the 2nd part, so I went onto the red button,
not only to find the 2nd part not there, but for the default news
headlines to tell me exactly what I missed (and of course Sky is so shit
it takes about 5 minutes to actually cancel out of the sky plus streaming
feeds).
The totally disillusioned knowing the result, went onto the PS3 and fired
up the iPlayer and saw F1 Qualifying on there, FF to he end, and it
stopped when it stopped for me, nothing on BBC3 iPlayer. So it seems
unless you were watching it live, then you are fucked, you are destined to
hearing about it on all the news channels without actually watching it...
Course i'm even more pissed, as we were going to go to Frome tommorrow to
watch the race (as it's only an hour up the road). Little chance of
seeing Jensen win the WDC unless Rubens shoves it into the wall...
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MarkG
<newsgrops_REM@ove_ianwhitephoto.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian Rawlings wrote:
> BBC iPlayer ... it's the future, I've licked it.
>
the 2nd part is on iPlayer?
I checked half an hour ago and it wasn't...
Ian Rawlings
> Better than that from here, Sarah wanted to watch Cum-dancing, so I
> watched the remainder of qualifying on the laptop.
>
> BBC iPlayer ... it's the future, I've licked it.
I watch all the races and qualifying stints from the beeb's streaming
website, so get to watch it live without needing to have a telly,
although sometimes it can be a bit crummy in quality or stutter a lot,
as it did today for the first 20 minutes or so of qualifying. Loads
better than the old ITV regime.
Shevek
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
The same can be said about the Spanish channel La Sexta, that waited
until the end, even when it supposed not to inform about football matches.
>
> And no advert breaks :)
That cannot. We had a lot of commercial breaks, fortunately none in the
interesting parts.
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Shevek
Yellow
>
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:25:22 +0100, Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
> > Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> > they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> > repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> > another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> > be running or not.
> >
> > And no advert breaks :)
> >
> > That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
>
>
> Actually, I'm extremely pissed off with BBC. I had it on Sky+ record, and
> it obviously did not record the 2nd part, so I went onto the red button,
> not only to find the 2nd part not there, but for the default news
> headlines to tell me exactly what I missed (and of course Sky is so shit
> it takes about 5 minutes to actually cancel out of the sky plus streaming
> feeds).
>
> The totally disillusioned knowing the result, went onto the PS3 and fired
> up the iPlayer and saw F1 Qualifying on there, FF to he end, and it
> stopped when it stopped for me, nothing on BBC3 iPlayer.
It was shown on BBC2.
> So it seems
> unless you were watching it live, then you are fucked, you are destined to
> hearing about it on all the news channels without actually watching it...
If the BBC had simply stopped coverage at the scheduled 7:15pm none of
us would have seen so I guess thems the breaks if it fails to make it on
to IPlayer. You can however be happy to know those who stuck with it
live at least got to see all there was to see.
Ian Rawlings
> Course i'm even more pissed, as we were going to go to Frome tommorrow to
> watch the race (as it's only an hour up the road). Little chance of
> seeing Jensen win the WDC unless Rubens shoves it into the wall...
Yeah Frome's not far from me, about 30 minutes, 20 if I take the
Lotus, I go there almost every day to buy a cigar. I'm intending to
watch some races there sometime, is there any particularly good places
to do so? I don't know it that well, just the car park and the
tobacconists!
I won't be there this weekend, as I'm off on a business trip, but may
try it for the next race.
MarkG
> MarkG [mark.gi...@gmail.com] said:
>
> It was shown on BBC2.
That was a typo.. Looked on the BBC2 iplayer, and also the "recently
added"...
Andy Hewitt
> Andy Hewitt [thewil...@me.com] said:
> >
> > Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> > > they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> > > repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> > > another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> > > be running or not.
> > >
> > > And no advert breaks :)
> > >
> > > That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
> >
> > Respect I say, that was almost a 5 hour show.
>
> Not quite - it started at 5:20pm and ended at around 8:30pm so that's
> three hours but whatever, it was brilliant and personally, I rather
> enjoyed the impromptu interviews and chat that filled the time.
Yeah, I realised I'd mucked that up after posting, it was about three
and half in the end,
> I also think Jake Humphrey did well in his job of holding it all
> together.
>
> Dunno if it was because they'd been couped up in the commentary box for
> too long, but I also enjoyed Brundle's tetchiness with Legard when he
> called pole with 3 minutes to go, and then again with 2 minutes to go.
> Legard's over-excitement had obviously been held waiting on a knife edge
> for too long and the poor man just could not help himself but Brundle's
> frustration, usually held just about in check, was clear for all to
> hear.
>
> I think Brundle has the patience of a saint but I wish sometimes he had
> just a little less and would put his foot down when Legard switches to
> "horse-race" mode. :-)
I'm waiting for DC and EJ to come to blows, I'm certain they will before
the season's done.
martin
> Yellow <ye...@please.no.spam.com> wrote:
>> I think Brundle has the patience of a saint but I wish sometimes he had
>> just a little less and would put his foot down when Legard switches to
>> "horse-race" mode. :-)
>
> I'm waiting for DC and EJ to come to blows, I'm certain they will before
> the season's done.
lol I feel like twatting the smug git and he's not even digging at me
>
Fred
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> just pull >a gun and shoot him, he might have been good on the wireless
> but he's fucking >annoying on the telly.
Bring back the cock.
Fred
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Ian Dalziel
wrote:
I went through all of that, but they did show it on the red button -
three times at least.
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Yellow
Indeed. I know he annoyed some but he never bothered me, unlike Legard.
emuLOAD
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
>
It was very professional of them, definitely good behavior. I got
rather annoyed at RAI when they decided to cut the live stream to
broadcast the lotto results and a full news broadcast, but at least
they did come back on air just a few minutes before the action
resumed. Still, the BBC filler was impressively well done!
PoB
| > I'm waiting for DC and EJ to come to blows, I'm certain they will before
| > the season's done.
|
| lol I feel like twatting the smug git and he's not even digging at me
| >
Aye, but respect to Eddie for diving into the Williams pit and dragging
Patrick out for an interview in the middle of one of Williams' best sessions
for ages.
Other than that, I'll have the baseball bat after you, although, given some
of the looks DC was giving EJ, we may miss out on the fun.
All the best
pOB
Halmyre
> Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
> they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
> repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
> another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
> be running or not.
>
>
> That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
>
I imagine outraged fans of Strictly Cunts Dancing will have been moaning
their heads off at the delay, so there's another reason to approve of the
BBC's decision!
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Paul-B
> In article <4ada2832$0$2476$db0f...@news.zen.co.uk>, A...@127.0.0.1
> says...
> > Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only
> > did they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some
> > n-th repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even
> > put it onto another channel to finish off the session, not knowing
> > if it was going to be running or not.
> >
> > And no advert breaks :)
> >
> > That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
> >
>
> I imagine outraged fans of Strictly Cunts Dancing will have been
> moaning their heads off at the delay, so there's another reason to
> approve of the BBC's decision!
LOL!
The g/f wanted to watch "Strictly" so I watched the rest of Qualy in
the bedroom.
With several glasses of wine.
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Paul-B
Emma
writes
>Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
>they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
>repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
>another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
>be running or not.
They all handled it very well, did love Eddie running off like a little
Terrier dog rounding people up. I fully expected him to come back with
food from one of the teams caterers at one point.
The on screen banner saying 'Ghandi Follows F1 Grand Prix' had me
chuckling but that might just be my sense of humour... ;-)
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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Indeed.
In Finland, the live sessions are only shown on the pay channel MTV3 MAX, with
condensed versions shown on the free-to-air channel MTV3 after the fact. The
pay TV has two TV professionals (who are relatively knowlegeful) and JJ Lehto
as commentators; the free-to-air condensed version has a TV professional who
used to do the live show on free-to-air, and a fan (billed as "expert").
MAX showed the full qualifying (with the commentators taking a short break at
1:35 or so). The condensed qualifying was set to start one hour after the
start of qualifying; they showed all that had happened to tha point, and then
went live (the big wait), until the scheduled time ran out. Later on, during
Q3, a short segment of the live show (with the pay commentators) was shown
on the free-to-air channel's sport news program.
Pretty well handled, I think. Better than the 2005 Indianapolis race - at that
time, live broadcasts were done on the free-to-air channel, and the daily news
segment overrode the F1 spectacle.
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Phil Carmody
> Yellow <ye...@please.no.spam.com> wrote:
>> Andy Hewitt [thewil...@me.com] said:
>> >
>> > Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Thank you BBC for actually showing the entire qualifying. Not only did
>> > > they show it in the first place, unlike ITV who would find some n-th
>> > > repeat of "You've been framed" to show instead, but they even put it onto
>> > > another channel to finish off the session, not knowing if it was going to
>> > > be running or not.
>> > >
>> > > And no advert breaks :)
>> > >
>> > > That has to be the longest qualifying session I've seen.
>> >
>> > Respect I say, that was almost a 5 hour show.
>>
>> Not quite - it started at 5:20pm and ended at around 8:30pm so that's
>> three hours but whatever, it was brilliant and personally, I rather
>> enjoyed the impromptu interviews and chat that filled the time.
Some. I don't care for interviews with dads, though. And EJ was
an annoying prick almost the whole time. The fast-forward button
got a lot of use.
> Yeah, I realised I'd mucked that up after posting, it was about three
> and half in the end,
>
>> I also think Jake Humphrey did well in his job of holding it all
>> together.
>>
>> Dunno if it was because they'd been couped up in the commentary box for
>> too long, but I also enjoyed Brundle's tetchiness with Legard when he
>> called pole with 3 minutes to go, and then again with 2 minutes to go.
>> Legard's over-excitement had obviously been held waiting on a knife edge
>> for too long and the poor man just could not help himself but Brundle's
>> frustration, usually held just about in check, was clear for all to
>> hear.
>>
>> I think Brundle has the patience of a saint but I wish sometimes he had
>> just a little less and would put his foot down when Legard switches to
>> "horse-race" mode. :-)
Amen!
> I'm waiting for DC and EJ to come to blows, I'm certain they will before
> the season's done.
I did like the interview where EJ said to the victim something like
"DC says your strategy's shit, is that true?".
Phil
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Andy Hewitt
> thewil...@me.com (Andy Hewitt) writes:
[..]
> > I'm waiting for DC and EJ to come to blows, I'm certain they will before
> > the season's done.
>
> I did like the interview where EJ said to the victim something like
> "DC says your strategy's shit, is that true?".
Well he has on a number of occasions, although not quite so directly.
Paul Harman
> Course i'm even more pissed, as we were going to go to Frome tommorrow
> to watch the race (as it's only an hour up the road). Little chance of
> seeing Jensen win the WDC unless Rubens shoves it into the wall...
I hope you had a good Sunday :-)
Paul