Athletics on TV

Racing Flat

After spending many Friday nights last summer flicking between CSI and other such gripping programmes :rolleyes: before stubling onto Eurosport to catch the closing edits of a Golden League meeting and realising that I missed another one, I thought it might be a good idea to have an Athletics on TV thread, so that if someone is aware that athletics is going to be on the telly they post details of the time and channel.

Kicking off:

Tomorrow Sun 14th June, Golden League, Berlin, Setanta Ireland 2.00pm

ecoli

a handy website got in work that will tell you any athletics for the following week in advance and what channel it on

http://livesportontv.com/athletics

here others coming up this week:
Wed 17th
17:00 Ostrava, Czech Republic IAAF Grand Prix Golden Spike British Eurosport (17:00-19:30)

plus Sat and Sun next week:
Sat 20th
15:25 European Team Championship European Team Championship BBC2 (15:25-19:30)
British Eurosport (16:00-19:15)
Sunday 21st
15:30 European Team Championship European Team Championship BBC2 (15:30-19:30)
British Eurosport (15:30-19:20)

Racing Flat

With setanta in a spot of bother, will setanta ireland still be showing the golden league meets?

Anyone know when the next one is on?

Edit - Fri 3rd July, Oslo, 7.00pm setanta ireland (fingers crossed).

ecoli

as far as i know the deak for the golden league coverage was done ages ago and as such payments already completed so i think we are safe for now

epo addict

Good to see Setanta showed the All Ireland Schools "track and field" championships in Tullamore today. Was down there watching it a few weeks ago, so was great to watch it on the telly !

ecoli

epo addict wrote: »

Good to see Setanta showed the All Ireland Schools "track and field" championships in Tullamore today. Was down there watching it a few weeks ago, so was great to watch it on the telly !

They did a three or four part series on it over the last few days. Pity the schools is the only coverage they show i mean every year always school nothing for juniors or u23s bit strange

epo addict

According to Ian O' Riordan in todays Indo " RTE are not covering" this summers world track & field championships in Berlin.

I'm shocked at this!
All the coverage they give the GAA it's a disgrace.
I've heard from a good source that Gerry Kiernan has offered his services for free and get RTE to use a live feed from the BBC. RTE still said no !

They are cutting costs and athletics is the big loser here:mad:

BeepBeep67

Caught the end of the Cork Marathon coverage on Setanta last night and there was Woddle almost crouched on the Finish Line - well done bro!

ecoli

epo addict wrote: »

According to Ian O' Riordan in todays Indo " RTE are not covering" this summers world track & field championships in Berlin.

I'm shocked at this!
All the coverage they give the GAA it's a disgrace.
I've heard from a good source that Gerry Kiernan has offered his services for free and get RTE to use a live feed from the BBC. RTE still said no !

They are cutting costs and athletics is the big loser here:mad:

That is crazy like this the pinnacle of the sport bar the olympics and they rather have on repeats of Dallas or Murder she Wrote. They will be slatted if there are some good performances from the irish team especially when we get out of the recession might be hard for RTE to get coverage

DangerMouse27

Stunned that there wont be coverage of World Championships on rte but its no loss(reason below)...Eurosport and BBC will carry it all.

Cant say im surprized,there is one athletics commentator on rte and he is so droll,he is usually posted on the heats coverage..cant listen to him.Also why the big fuss that they arent carrying it...didnt Derval O'Rourke refuse a post race interview in Beijing?
Hats off to Jerry Kiernan though for his offer.

You can get full Golden League coverage on UniversalSports.tv or .com....have a search around the sight.Full commentary.They also show some domestic U.S meets and have some sweet volleyball pics in the gallery of hotties(it exists!)

Enjoy!

DangerMouse27

universalsports.com it still has the full Berlin meet with Stewart Dickinson and the eurosport guy commentating.
Awesome site!

ecoli

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Stunned that there wont be coverage of World Championships on rte but its no loss(reason below)...Eurosport and BBC will carry it all.

Cant say im surprized,there is one athletics commentator on rte and he is so droll,he is usually posted on the heats coverage..cant listen to him.Also why the big fuss that they arent carrying it...didnt Derval O'Rourke refuse a post race interview in Beijing?
Hats off to Jerry Kiernan though for his offer.

You can get full Golden League coverage on UniversalSports.tv or .com....have a search around the sight.Full commentary.They also show some domestic U.S meets and have some sweet volleyball pics in the gallery of hotties(it exists!)

Enjoy!

I would say that it is a big loss where we need to focus on building an irish fan base. Sure it is accessible for us in the sport f we look for it but we need to be showing people that are athletes are able to perform at the highest levels especially if we are hoping to draw any bit of a crowd to the XC in Santry this year. This announcement couldnt have happened in a worse year for us i feel

911sc

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Caught the end of the Cork Marathon coverage on Setanta

Tonight 21:30 Bord Gais Energy Marathon
All the action from the Bord Gais Energy Marathon in Cork city.

Clum

Racing Flat wrote: »

With setanta in a spot of bother, will setanta ireland still be showing the golden league meets?

Anyone know when the next one is on?

Edit - Fri 3rd July, Oslo, 7.00pm setanta ireland (fingers crossed).

Still on the Setanta Ireland schedule as of today.

For any middle / long distance running fans this is a must. The women's 5000m is going to kick ass. Dibaba, Defar, Cheruiyot and Melkamu! Both Defar and Dibaba have set 5000m world records on this track.

Iaaf.org reckons it could be the "best women’s 5000m race ever assembled".

thirtyfoot

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Hats off to Jerry Kiernan though for his offer.

I said before, no RTE at worlds is a blessing if it means no Jerry Kiernan. Potential RTE studio discussion in Berlin:

Gillick runs 43.44 to win silver behind Merritt who runs 42.98 but beats Wariner and Gillick now the 4th fastest man ever.....

Bill O' Herlihy "I put it to you that David Gillick is now one of the greatest sprinters in the world and probably Ireland's best athlete since, since you Eamon"

Jerry K "Bill. I'm an anorak and I know every athlete in the world. This fellow that beat him, I think his parents are Nigerian and that explains a lot, but I've never heard of him, Bill"

Bill "I think he is Olympic champion, Jerry"

Jerry "Bill, I know that. But Gillick, Bill, he doesn't have the speed. There are hundreds of guys in America who can run 43 seconds for a 400, hundreds"

Bill "Eamon, you want to come in there?"

Eamon "When I won the World Championships in 1983 in Helsinki, Finland I got a huge sense of elation that after all the years of frustration that this was it"

Bill "Jerry?"

Jerry "He is too slow, Bill. Gillick needs to move up to 800"

Bill "okey, dokey"

and then we'd cut to Eileen O' Keefe leaving the circle shaking her head having missed her throw.

I'll miss it.

epo addict

911sc wrote: »

Tonight 21:30 Bord Gais Energy Marathon
All the action from the Bord Gais Energy Marathon in Cork city.

Watched it yesterday and enjoyed the coverage on Setanta.
Standard of athletes in the race was shocking !

DangerMouse27

Well done Tingle...is it bad that i was putting on the Jkiernan accent when reading that..
He does come out with awful drivel and i was just complimenting him on his supposed offer of no fee.
I will never be a Jk supporter after an undeserved attack on James Nolan a few years back.

DangerMouse27

Just checked again and anyone without setanta can watch universalsports.com for full coverage of golden league meets.
Enjoy

DangerMouse27

Last weekend, the Ireland team gained promotion to the second division of the new European Team Championship. (Not that you would heard much about it. RTÉ, as we know, are effectively ignoring the sport this summer. And by the way, the collapse of the British end of Setanta means no more Golden League meetings on Irish TV.)'

an article in the times on the 27th of this month...no setanta athletics

hurdler2009

The Golden League in Oslo is to be shown on British Eurosport tommorow night instead of Setanta. Talks are ongoing between the IAAF and Eurosport as to wheather or not Eurosport will show the rest of the Golden Leagues this season.

http://www.iaaf.org/GLE09/news/newsid=51452.html

deadlybuzz

Thanks for that hurdler. I don't have Setanta, so will be glad to see the Golden League meets on Eurosport if they are going to cointinue to cover them. They already cover other track meets, and various city marathons throughout the year. The commentators are quite knowledgeable and impartial, which helps.

epo addict

hurdler2009 wrote: »

The Golden League in Oslo is to be shown on British Eurosport tommorow night instead of Setanta. Talks are ongoing between the IAAF and Eurosport as to wheather or not Eurosport will show the rest of the Golden Leagues this season.

http://www.iaaf.org/GLE09/news/newsid=51452.html

Really happy i got a new upgraded dodgy box as i'm looking forward to watching this !

ecoli

Not strictly tv i know but here is a list of the events streamed this summer by universal sports

Fri, July 03 Bislett Games Oslo/Bislett Norway
Tue, July 07 Athletissima 2009 Lausanne Switzerland
Fri, July 10 Golden Gala Rome Italy
Fri, July 17 Meeting Paris Saint-DenisParis/Saint St. Denis France
Fri, July 24 IAAF Super GP Day 1 London Great Britain
Sat, July 25 IAAF Super GP Day 2 London Great Britain
Tue, July 28 IAAF Super GP Day 1 Monte Carlo Monaco
Fri, July 31 IAAF Super GP Day 1 Stockholm Sweden
Aug 15 - Aug 23 IAAF World Athletics Championships Berlin Germany
Fri, Aug 28 IAAF GL Weltklasse Zurich` Zurich Switzerland
Fri, Sep 04 IAAF GL Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium

Free service and live have found this website great for coverage

Irishathlete_1

After the collapse of Setanta, the IAAF have reached an agreement with Eurosport to broadcast tonights events. Coverage is from 8pm.

Enjoy!

ecoli

Irishathlete_1 wrote: »

After the collapse of Setanta, the IAAF have reached an agreement with Eurosport to broadcast tonights events. Coverage is from 8pm.

Enjoy!

I thought that Setanta only lost broaadcasting rights for Britain i thought you could still get it on Setanta Ireland as well as Eurosport?

ecoli

Quick update on events to come in the next 2 weeks

Thursday 9th July
16:45 Day 2 IAAF Youth World Championships British Eurosport (16:45-18:30)
Friday 10th July
16:45 Day 3 IAAF Youth World Championships British Eurosport (16:45-18:00)
Saturday 11th July
14:00 English Schools Athletics Championships English Schools Athletics Championships Sky Sports 2 (14:00-17:55)
16:40 World Trials and UK Championships World Trials and UK Championships BBC2 (16:40-18:30)
Sunday 12th July
15:00 Kitzbuhel Women's Event ITU World Championship Series Setanta Ireland (14:55-17:00 Ireland only)
17:30 World Trials and UK Championships World Trials and UK Championships BBC2 (17:30-20:00)
Wednesday 15th July
19:30 Lucerne, Switzerland European Athletics British Eurosport (19:30-21:00)

Racing Flat

Tonight is down as 7.00 on Setanta Ireland on my TV browser, with no listing of Athletics on Eurosport.

ecoli

Racing Flat wrote: »

Tonight is down as 7.00 on Setanta Ireland on my TV browser, with no listing of Athletics on Eurosport.

Setanta Ireland still have it exclusive to ireland and it was only annouced in last few days about Eurosport so might not have been updated that all

shels4ever

Racing Flat wrote: »

Tonight is down as 7.00 on Setanta Ireland on my TV browser, with no listing of Athletics on Eurosport.

Yep its on Setanta .. but i guess you all know now...

ecoli

Eurosport really must have been last minute. No commentary what so ever

shels4ever

ecoli wrote: »

Eurosport really must have been last minute. No commentary what so ever

ah i've just got setanta not bad at all,

epo addict

What time did coverage start at on Setanta?
I checked at 7ish and something else was on!

TheRoadRunner

It's on Setanta at the moment. Campbell and Chamney both run in the 1.45s to finish 3rd and 4th. Chamney on top 1.45.42 vs 1.45.59. Great race by both Campbell got badly cut off on the home straight. Chamney ran the perfect tactical race

ecoli

epo addict wrote: »

What time did coverage start at on Setanta?
I checked at 7ish and something else was on!

bout ten past or something delay to the meet due to thunderstorm or something apparently

hurdler2009

Does anyone know if there is coverage of Lausanne on tv anywhere tonight?

JKF

hurdler2009 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is coverage of Lausanne on tv anywhere tonight?

Universal Sports are covering it online although I didn't find it very good for Oslo...
Can't see it listed on either Setanta or Eurosport

DangerMouse27

lausanne is on justin.tv

if its not on the sports page just search athletics

myflipflops

Hession won the B race in 20.50. Great run considering the conditions (-1.4 wind and hammering down rain). He is getting into a very positive habit of winning races too.

Interesting to see some of the times in the A race and where he would have been in comparison.


http://www.athletissima.ch/meeting/results_en.aspx?g=M&c=200

ecoli

pwhite587 wrote: »

Hession won the B race in 20.50. Great run considering the conditions (-1.4 wind and hammering down rain). He is getting into a very positive habit of winning races too.

Interesting to see some of the times in the A race and where he would have been in comparison.


http://www.athletissima.ch/meeting/results_en.aspx?g=M&c=200

cant really compare as i reckon he may have been faster with faster competition around him. Still dont understand how he was bumped last min

limerickleader

jaysus, the weather is cat over there...

ecoli

Some run from Bolt 19.59 in that weather

RJM22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl0-LTPuA2E

berlin will be class, can't wait!

Pherekydes

Heads up:

Rome GL on Eurosport at 7 p.m. on Friday.

And Athens GP on Monday at 4.30 p.m.

Racing Flat

Pherekydes wrote: »

Heads up:

Rome GL on Eurosport at 7 p.m. on Friday.

And Athens GP on Monday at 4.30 p.m.

Reminder bump

ecoli

UK Championships about to start on BBC 2 for anyone interested. 16:40

ecoli

Just a comparison here really goes to show how screwed up this country is

Uk
Live coverage of British schools for 3 and half hours
Live coverage of UK Trials

vs

Ireland
Not even coverage of the world championships
If we lucky a half hour round up of National championships that night

we need to fight to get more coverage and increase to exposure and support of the sport in the country

Woddle

Might not be as good as TV coverage but I plan to cover it (nationals) and upload it to my flickr, don't think I'll be able to offer any commentary either as I'm only starting to learn the names, maybe ecoli this could be a job for you

ecoli

Woddle wrote: »

Might not be as good as TV coverage but I plan to cover it (nationals) and upload it to my flickr, don't think I'll be able to offer any commentary either as I'm only starting to learn the names, maybe ecoli this could be a job for you

I dunno if i will be in the country for the nationals unfortunately however will know in the next week and if so i can bit of a job:D

BeepBeep67

Great finish to the boys 800m in the World Youths - Swedish guy came from last place on final lap to pip the two Kenyans - just over 1:50.

ecoli

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Great finish to the boys 800m in the World Youths - Swedish guy came from last place on final lap to pip the two Kenyans - just over 1:50.

1:50:92 he paced it right as the first 400 was too fast by the leaders like 148 pace at that age is just not maintainable

ecoli

Athens GP live on eurosport at half 4 today