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rally ireland preview & shakedown
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14-11-2007 12:14pm#1
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Jaysus, can RTE ever manage to do anything without screwing it up somehow! F**king idiots! :mad:
I just hope the people who may have been watching it live in other countries or on the WRC.com live feed weren't effected by that technical glitch. It really wouldn't have said much about us if they had been, would it? From what I could see, though, it looked to me like it was an ISC/North One produced feed which was then being taken by RTE and transmitted by satellite for broadcast across RTE Two. So, to me anyway, it looked like it was a problem with RTE's satellite link and not the main feed, which means it may indeed have just been RTE viewers in this country who were affected and viewers elsewhere would have been okay. I hope so, anyway.
Fair play to Kris Meeke, he did a hell of a job posting that time. I was really hoping it was going to stick and he'd finish up tonight top of the timesheets. Still though, if you're going to get beaten by anyone, best to be beaten by the two best drivers in the world, eh?
Oh, by the way, just wondering if anyone else picked up on the mistake Peter Collins and John Kenny made when they mentioned how, with Austin, Gareth and Aaron McHale all competing this weekend, it was the first time three members of one family had ever competed in a world championship rally together. I caught it straight away, just wondering if anyone else did.*
*Jimmy, Colin and Alistair McRae competed together on the RAC / Rally GB on at least one occasion that I can recall. In fact, I'm sure they've competed on it a few times together0 -
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Let's hope UTVs offering at 23:35 is OK.
What offering would that be? UTV aren't showing any coverage of tonight's stage, as far as I know. According to the TV listings, all they're showing at 23:35 is a repeat of last weeks 'RPM' which was just a preview kind of thing focusing on Kris Meeke and the other young local drivers.
Nightly highlights on Eurosport from tomorrow night, though, as usual which will probably have a quick recap of tonight's stage as well.fabsoul wrote:Eurosport viewers were affected as well.
Funny you should mention that. This week's 'Motorsport News' said that they were also going to be showing tonight's super special stage live between 7 and 8 on British Eurosport but there was no sign of it. All we got was some kind of strongman competition. Was it on the international Eurosport feed instead then? If so, and if that's the one that was also affected by the technical gremlins, then it obviously wasn't just RTE but the whole thing instead was affected. And, if it was the case that it was ISC/North One providing the pictures instead of RTE, then I suppose RTE can be forgiven then as it wouldn't have been their fault, they were just taking the same world feed pictures everybody else was as well.
Just out of curiousity, does anybody know how much of a hand RTE actually do have in this weekend's coverage? Are they responsible for producing any of the pictures at all or supplying any technical assistance (satellite links, OB units, helicams, etc.) or is it all being done by ISC/North One themselves and RTE are then just simply taking the pictures being supplied to them by ISC and re-broadcasting them across the RTE network?
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philstar wrote:Is there any TV station showing the rally live??
RTE coverage is pretty lame, too much waffle not enough action.
No TV station would ever be able to cover an entire rally live, the logistics involved in doing something like that would be ridiculous. The most you'll ever get when it comes to live coverage of a rally is a single stage shown live, and usually they'll be pretty short stages too. Hence why the Stormont Super Special was shown live, as is the final, Mullaghmore stage on Sunday because they're both so short it makes them relatively easy to show them live.
The closest thing you'll get to "live" coverage of the whole rally is the daily highlights shows on RTE and Eurosport. The Eurosport one is the better of the two, being the official ISC/North One produced show which has all of the action and none of the waffle!
I agree, the RTE coverage has been pretty lame alright with, as you say, too much waffle and not enough action. Tonight's hour long highlights show was dreadful, in my opinion. They showed a repeat of the morning action shown in the afternoon (2.30) show, had a bit of waffle and an ad break, then showed the action from the afternoon and that was pretty much all the important stuff shown within half an hour. They then had almost another half an hour to fill with more waffle, a few interviews that really didn't add all that much to the coverage, repeated talking points and anything else they could think of to fill the remaining 30 minutes. The last half hour was really dragged out, they could have easily shown all the important stuff that we wanted to see in 30 minutes, an hour long show was definitely too long. Or, if they're going to insist on an hour long nightly highlights show, at least spread the action out more evenly, don't cram it all in in the first 30 minutes and then leave Michael Lyster having to try and pad out the remaining 30! The only real thing it had going for it was the couple of extra camera angles they had of Gronholm's crash and John Kenny's funny interview with Andrew Nesbitt!
It's definitely not a patch on the old, nightly 'Top Gear Rally Reports' that the BBC used to show back in the days of the RAC Rally, that's for sure!
And, is it just me, or has Billy Colman turned into a right old grumpy bollocks in his old age? Has anyone else noticed it? He never stops complaining about the costs involved these days and how young drivers can't get into rallying now because it's so expensive and also complaining about the regulations, the lack of recce time, how there's too much technology on the cars, etc., etc. He does have a point, I'll admit, but he keeps going on and on and on about it. Billy, as much as we all respect you and everything, Jaysus, lad, will you give it a rest! We get the point! We know it's not the same as it was back in your day, we know it's too expensive, we know how much technology is under the bodies of the cars these days but that's progress for you, both the good and bad points, and we just have to accept it and get on with it. No need to keep banging on about it!
Also, with the greatest respect to Shaun Gallagher, he's no Tony Mason or Plum Tyndall, is he? Stick to the day job, Shaun, you're much better driving a rally car than talking about them! 0 -
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And, is it just me, or has Billy Colman turned into a right old grumpy bollocks in his old age? Has anyone else noticed it? He never stops complaining about the costs involved these days and how young drivers can't get into rallying now because it's so expensive and also complaining about the regulations, the lack of recce time, how there's too much technology on the cars, etc., etc. He does have a point, I'll admit, but he keeps going on and on and on about it. Billy, as much as we all respect you and everything, Jaysus, lad, will you give it a rest! We get the point! We know it's not the same as it was back in your day, we know it's too expensive, we know how much technology is under the bodies of the cars these days but that's progress for you, both the good and bad points, and we just have to accept it and get on with it. No need to keep banging on about it!
Also, with the greatest respect to Shaun Gallagher, he's no Tony Mason or Plum Tyndall, is he? Stick to the day job, Shaun, you're much better driving a rally car than talking about them! [/QUOTE]
Have to agree with billy coleman, it will be interesting to see if he is on the show today and will he be more up beat.
In relation to Shaun, granted he is not a presenter but give him a chance, he relaxed compared to thursday show, he is a driver and a worker, not a professional presenter, think he is getting better.
Michael Lestor, now in fairness he is at it a long time and is still crap, old school shirt and tie, SHIRT AND TIE, for gods sake, take the stuffiness out of the anchor (i am debating if there should be a W there or not) and relax. Its motor sport, not the budget.0 -
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