Darkman wrote: ↑14 Jul 2021, 10:13am
It's not so much the length of ads that bugs me, more the content.
The majority fall into three categories on Sky:
1. Past-their-sellby-date celebrities trying to flog life insurance and/or dodgy-looking medical aids that probably don't work.
2. Old people having a jolly good pissup because one of them's just paid for his own funeral.
3. For just £2 a month, you can adopt a tiger, a snow leopard, a panda, a donkey, an elephant, a polar bear, an African orphan boy...
Yeah, you could accrue quite the menagerie with all of those adverts for animal rescue!
I always thought it was a pity that the donkey and the poor African girl that has to walk 10 miles for water couldn't just be paired up.
Still, it's better than those Watchfinder adverts from a couple of years ago when the whole ITV4 coverage was sponsored by them and it had a guy (badly) riding a bike with the focus on his expensive watch. (My emphasis)
Very true, but I think it's a good example of damning with faint praise
All true but compared to the 5 minutes on Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon, which was all we got once upon a time, it's bloody marvellous!
'Why cycling for joy is not the most popular pastime on earth is still a mystery to me.' Frank J Urry, Salute to Cycling, 1956.
If it was ever on Grandstand for five whole minutes I must have missed it. I was thinking just now and I remember whe even French TV had much less coverage, and it was a matter on listening to one of the French radio progs on long wave (?) Compared with that, ITV4 is the bees knees
We usually watch the highlights on catchup (because 7pm-8pm coincides with Junior's bedtime), and the "ITV Hub+" subscription is well worth it - £3.99 a month to remove all the ads on catchup.
The disadvantage is that ITV are, as ever, dilatory at bothering to put the highlights programme up. It's fairly frequently been 10.15pm until they get round to uploading it, at which point we've usually given up and switched to Eurosport/GCN. I've grown to quite like Carlton Kirby's eccentric commentary, but my goodness was Sean Kelly in full rant mode yesterday...
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but my goodness was Sean Kelly in full rant mode yesterday.
That reinforces something said earlier in the thread. I've not watched Eurosport since it stopped being free on the original BSkyB and in those days he seemed completely laid back. The complaint used to be from people who needed subtitles to understand what he was saying. Perhaps he's been told to change his style.
thirdcrank wrote: ↑14 Jul 2021, 6:16pm
If it was ever on Grandstand for five whole minutes I must have missed it. I was thinking just now and I remember whe even French TV had much less coverage, and it was a matter on listening to one of the French radio progs on long wave (?) Compared with that, ITV4 is the bees knees
Whereas Dave Bicknall was forever scrambling his Matchless across the small screens. Was it a Matchless or am I dreaming? Anyway, cycling - 0 scrambling - 10 on Grandstand
Richard Fairhurst wrote: ↑15 Jul 2021, 9:33am
but my goodness was Sean Kelly in full rant mode yesterday...
Yes, but he knows a lot about professional cycling (having been there/done that) and tells things
"as it is". I love listening to him and his accent.
Absolutely. I love the brief silences he leaves when an overexcitable commentator makes a stupid comment.
'What do you think Sean?'
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