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Post by Mike D on Oct 11, 2009 19:21:25 GMT 12
Maybe they can include the safety car in the race next year ;D Or better still have a no holds bared bathurst,,where anything goes...
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Post by Hooncorp on Oct 11, 2009 19:32:24 GMT 12
What can we do about the coverage?
I am disgusted and dont want a repeat performance as I look forward to this race as a motorsport highlight of the year.
The ad timing was a shocker, we missed lots of laps un-necessarily as TV3 took ad times Australia didn't and when the coverage resumed, if something had happened (safety car), it had been well documented to the local audience and no need to show NZ.
Before the coverage started, we were told we had to take an ad break to get it out of the way prior to the start. That ad break had no ads (pre 12pm) and were all just promo's of TV 3 programmes
coming up.
The B****Y news break with no urgent news to report, apart from the ground shaking Air NZ computer failure...... What the heck was that about? Why couldn't it wait to post race and after the prizegiving??...............Oh yeah
The B****Y prizegiving, or lack of it. What gives there? Like a 3 course meal and no pudding. Prize giving is very important for the sponsors and interesting for us buyers to be.
I smile thinking this is a joke, but know some einstein will still get paid lots after making these and other very stupid decisions. One decision they could have got right, was to use C4 instead of disrupting a brilliant race and INCLUDING the prizegiving.
On the TV3 website, there is a non-flattering message board they have that TV3 never seems to bother commenting on. They DONT have an 'email us' section there I could find, and surprisingly the phone number provided, not only has recently been changed that you do get connected to, but that number is overloaded. (No Sh*t Sherlock) I wonder why?
I did get through and the poor operator sounded very over worked. He also wished they had not gone to the news during the race, and not because he is a motorsport buff, but because ALL the lights on their board were lit.
I want to know, what else can be done? Can I get a dish to get the Aussie broadcast direct and cut out TV3 and their ads, rubbish technicians, over-eager news people, anti prizegiving bogans and egos?
Wandering minds NEED to know and hope TVNZ get V8 Supercars back VERY, VERY soon.
Hooncorp.
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Post by Devilracer on Oct 11, 2009 19:34:27 GMT 12
very disappointing coverage indeed.. seemed that every time the race went to heat up with passes etc they go to an add break.. im sure one sport couldnt done a better job.... but atleast its free to view, until sky tv gets the contract  Must agree, the coverage was SH#T this year and i cant say im happy with it  Might have to talk with the boss and get the contract off TV3 for next year with minimal ads, Sky TV only missed out this time round by a few thousand dollars, might be worth paying it out next year. Well done to Holden, 9 in the top 10, must be a record. ;D |
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Post by jeds on Oct 11, 2009 19:49:35 GMT 12
i agree hoony,
why couldnt they run it on there freeveiw channel,then they could have run all there other crap programs on 3 and had as many of there bullsh*t ads as they wanted aye,oh well,9 out of 10 placings for the generals mob made my day,
see you at a track soon
jed
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Post by mikey69 on Oct 11, 2009 20:06:19 GMT 12
I think any free to air coverage is crap no matter where we all are,here in perth it wasnt much better coverage started at 4am,race at 730am and they had ads every 15 minutes.And for the after race coverage they had the prize givein interviewed murph,had skaife in the studio and quick chat with lowndes and whincup.
So maybe 3 just had the aussie coverage.
At least the right colur got up this year just a shame for murph sure was flying
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Post by wayne on Oct 11, 2009 20:34:26 GMT 12
great racing at the end. was a shame the podium wasn't shown. and also the lack of fords. it will be a formula racing series next year. fomula holden. which is disapointing. murphy can relax now. and go back to sucking for the rest of the season. ;D its hardly holdens fault the teams have moved.Why dont ford do somthing bout it like supporting more teams.Good to see caruso/holdsworth and the ritter/besnard car go well.Go grm ! |
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Post by porry41 on Oct 11, 2009 20:42:00 GMT 12
well i thought the whole race was boring .been going over for many years.glad i stayed home this time .the think the adds were the most interesting part of the show apart from the small flutter from murth.i had more fun on my ride on lawnmower  burp .tried that tui blonde .not a bad drop.  |
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Post by eddiek on Oct 11, 2009 20:44:46 GMT 12
What can we do about the coverage? The ad timing was a shocker, we missed lots of laps un-necessarily as TV3 took ad times Australia didn't and when the coverage resumed, if something had happened (safety car), it had been well documented to the local audience and no need to show NZ. I remember seeing what was left of the smouldering remnants of Frostys behind and didnt find out for almost an hour what that was. On at least 2 occasions TV3 cut to commercial mid sentence from the commentators. About halfway through I posted a comment on face book saying the coverage must be delayed as it was the only way they could consistantly have a disaster in the middle of an ad break. Apparently yes. All you'd need is a sat reciever capable of recieving the right signal and a second dish (or if you're clued up enough, faff around with the Sky dish) This is something I've been thinking about for some weeks, and after someone else mentioned it on Facebook today would like to do some more investigation into. While it's very much human nature to hope that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence even after the horrors that could best sum up this years telecast, TV3 *IS* a huge improvement over TVNZ. TV1 used to do the same things that 3 did this year, you never got to see the 500 live (Sandown back then) and more often than not youd get to see the race 3's sometime around midnight when most fans had bed and jobs and early rising kids to think about. TV3 and C4 have - for the championship rounds at least, managed to broadcast in a timely manner using both channels as required so exactly what sort of brain fart went into the mind of the planners who decided that as a one off, they wouldn't do that for the big one of the year is beyond me, and I only hope that whoever was responsible for that call has a "Dont Come Tuesday" letter sitting on his desk by now. This is more out of character because TV3 DO use the C4 channel to continue the broadcast, did so for the shootout coverage the day before, and usually at that time, all C4 has on is preselected hiphop tunes aimed at an audience who is usually out tagging on fences at that time anyway. If enough of us were to complain to TV3 about this broadcast, and as publically as possible, write it in yer blogs, on your news sites etc, theres a good possibility they wont be stupid enough to do this again. Meanwhile, I'll find out what I can about sat recievers and try and put something together for myself so I don't have to go through all this crap again. |
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Post by Rusty on Oct 11, 2009 20:48:03 GMT 12
What can we do about the coverage? I am disgusted and dont want a repeat performance as I look forward to this race as a motorsport highlight of the year. The ad timing was a shocker, we missed lots of laps un-necessarily as TV3 took ad times Australia didn't and when the coverage resumed, if something had happened (safety car), it had been well documented to the local audience and no need to show NZ. Before the coverage started, we were told we had to take an ad break to get it out of the way prior to the start. That ad break had no ads (pre 12pm) and were all just promo's of TV 3 programmes coming up. The B****Y news break with no urgent news to report, apart from the ground shaking Air NZ computer failure...... What the heck was that about? Why couldn't it wait to post race and after the prizegiving??...............Oh yeah The B****Y prizegiving, or lack of it. What gives there? Like a 3 course meal and no pudding. Prize giving is very important for the sponsors and interesting for us buyers to be. I smile thinking this is a joke, but know some einstein will still get paid lots after making these and other very stupid decisions. One decision they could have got right, was to use C4 instead of disrupting a brilliant race and INCLUDING the prizegiving. On the TV3 website, there is a non-flattering message board they have that TV3 never seems to bother commenting on. They DONT have an 'email us' section there I could find, and surprisingly the phone number provided, not only has recently been changed that you do get connected to, but that number is overloaded. (No Sh*t Sherlock) I wonder why? I did get through and the poor operator sounded very over worked. He also wished they had not gone to the news during the race, and not because he is a motorsport buff, but because ALL the lights on their board were lit. I want to know, what else can be done? Can I get a dish to get the Aussie broadcast direct and cut out TV3 and their ads, rubbish technicians, over-eager news people, anti prizegiving bogans and egos? Wandering minds NEED to know and hope TVNZ get V8 Supercars back VERY, VERY soon. Hooncorp. should be able to get a great big dish and get aussie channels as the asians across rd have humoungus aerial that they use to get asian channels |
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Post by Flash on Oct 11, 2009 21:51:58 GMT 12
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Post by Naki on Oct 11, 2009 22:05:15 GMT 12
This was told to us by a fellow simracer at kiwisimracing that works for tv3.
It's not all Tv3's fault...
Bathurst
At 6PM there will be a News show (including a news commercial break) for 15 minutes. I'm in the control room doing Bathurst anyway, should a major incident happen I'll be stopping the News and going back to the race coverage. A major incident basically means red flagged race due to a severe crash. We're also continually recording anyway so should stuff happen during the News show I'll be rolling in highlights before rejoining the live coverage. The schedule at the moment has at least one commercial break during the 6.00 - 6.15 time the news will be on, commercial breaks are scheduled and dictated by CH7 throughout the entire race.
Don't bother to phone in and complain, there's zip you can do about it except get your blood pressure high. Eat some food, grab another beer - it's what I'm planning to do.
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Post by Naki on Oct 11, 2009 22:08:44 GMT 12
Also i watched a live stream online after Tv3 which showed the prizegiving and interviews with skaife murph lowndes wincup etc.
Didn't miss much but i know its always good to see the podium etc...After all it was only holden.
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Post by Geoff public on Oct 11, 2009 22:50:48 GMT 12
Free to air needs more experience in live events. The sooner events of national interest are exclusively free to air for all to enjoy, the sooner we will all get a better product.
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Post by eddiek on Oct 11, 2009 22:51:45 GMT 12
This was told to us by a fellow simracer at kiwisimracing that works for tv3. It's not all Tv3's fault... Bathurst At 6PM there will be a News show (including a news commercial break) etc etc So exactly how is that not 'all TV3's fault' then? - Did someone from Sky go in and force them to do that? |
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Post by BarryB on Oct 12, 2009 6:25:53 GMT 12
If Sky TV had the coverage they'd be an outcry from the masses that don't have Sky.......and even then we'd still get Sky promo breaks during the Ch 7 coverage's ad breaks, I assume.
Sky's coverage of Scott Dixon's final season race (via ESPN via Versus TV) was even worse, and for those that hail TVNZ's motorsport coverage above, they didn't even cover this race live (they screened it delayed up against Bathurst, now that'd be a ratings winner) after earlier stating they'd screen all U.S. Saturday night races live here on the Sunday morning, N.Z. time.
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Post by m8sr8z on Oct 12, 2009 6:28:39 GMT 12
tanders playing dirty... tap and spin is all i can say  1234, when did tander spin anycar AND its not like jamie never drives dirty in the championship |
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Post by mike004 on Oct 12, 2009 8:18:48 GMT 12
Sorry cant help myself- Definition of FORD, Fifth on race day! ;D
Holdens back big time!
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Post by nogrip-31gm on Oct 12, 2009 8:25:56 GMT 12
tanders playing dirty... tap and spin is all i can say 1234, when did tander spin anycar AND its not like jamie never drives dirty in the championship never said he did tap and spin anyone....more referring to someone shouldve given him a tap.. but he did push the 7 car of rick and todd kelly out into the weeds, a blatant blocking move at high speed.. i was sure they were both going to spin into the turn 2 wall, more like hoping ;D are ford australia struggling financially like the US are? may be a big factor for next season.. would be a shame to loose such a great team. |
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Post by 2jbones on Oct 12, 2009 15:48:54 GMT 12
Once again Jamie W..kup gets away with it he could of yeilded in that move on car 3 but its good to see Richo on podium bring on the next round Go Holden Tander was just Cruzeing  |
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Post by 2jbones on Oct 12, 2009 15:56:18 GMT 12
Whincup reminds me of Marcos Ambrose every blatant move he made he also got away with it is it a seprate set of rules for Team vodafone to everyone else is it the beginning of the end for Whincups time at the top as for Shane Van Wizzburgers Shootout Lap that was nothing short of spectacular |
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burp .tried that tui blonde .not a bad drop. 
