Sky golf coverage...?

[woofers]

FFS, only a few weeks ago we couldn’t play or watch ANY golf.
Happy to see it back, happy to listen to Nick Doughty and Andrew Coltart.

 

[Golfnut1957]

I don't understand why someone can't criticise golf coverage if it's not to their liking..whoever's controlling the buttons
Ok, it may be all there is but if someone's not getting off on it then they are allowed to say so....
Personally I fell out with most golf coverage years ago, even struggle to watch the Majors sometimes...

I don't understand why someone can't critisise someone who is critisising the golf coverage.

 

[Imurg]

I don't understand why someone can't critisise someone who is critisising the golf coverage.

I dont unde............blimey, this could become a long night....

 

[MartynB]

Opinions fellas, that’s all, like a-holes. We all have them, but some are more stinky than others ?

 

[Slab]

I don’t get why folks always accept sky can’t do more. Sky can do more (but I assume since they are experts they’ve decided it’s not really worth it for a run of the mill PGA event)

They can just take the international feed ‘as is’ and even broadcast without UK commentary
They can take the feed and add their own commentary
They can take the feed and run no ad breaks at all (if they really wanted) and still have 'live' action (commercially that’s not the best choice)
The can take the feeds and show coverage of more UK players than the host country, if they wanted to (not every stroke you see is ‘live’ )

I’m not criticising Sky at all, they know their stuff. For an event like that its must be practical just to take the feed, add studio commentary and run with the pictures as supplied & fill the breaks. But I’d say no they're not ‘tied/stuck’ with what they get from the host and if it was worth it (time, effort etc) they could change more if they wanted

 

[Grant85]

I think Sky do a pretty good job and provide a huge amount of golf content for a relatively modest sum.

Ok, if you don't like football or cricket, you might feel you are over paying for Sky.

But you have to remember that it simply wouldn't be commercially viable for Sky to cover these events with their own production teams on the ground every week, travelling all over the world. To broadcast to probably not very many UK golf fans - other than for the big events such as Majors and Ryder Cup.

I dread to think how many viewers they are recording for the Thursday or Friday coverage of the Open de Nowhere on the ET or the finale of the American events on the West Coast or Hawaii that don't finish until 1am.

So as such, it's a commercial reality that they take other feeds from PGA Tour Live, CBS, Golf Channel, NBC, European Tour production etc.

 

[Grant85]

They can just take the international feed ‘as is’ and even broadcast without UK commentary
They can take the feed and add their own commentary
They can take the feed and run no ad breaks at all (if they really wanted) and still have 'live' action (commercially that’s not the best choice)
The can take the feeds and show coverage of more UK players than the host country, if they wanted to (not every stroke you see is ‘live’ )

They do variations of all of these things at certain events. They don't run zero ad breaks, but there are certainly fewer breaks on Sky (albeit accept they are going by UK broadcast rules)

Normally they'd have people on the ground for most US events - especially when it gets to this point in the season and have their own commentary team and interviews etc and possibly even some cameras following any European guys the US networks aren't bothering with.
But with no travel for their staff we are seeing a much more taped together feed which amounts to what the US network broadcasts with a few highlights if a PGA Tour Live camera provides anything extra and a bit of additional chat from Nick, Sarah, Coltart, Beemer, McGinley etc in the studio.

 

[Slab]

They do variations of all of these things at certain events. They don't run zero ad breaks, but there are certainly fewer breaks on Sky (albeit accept they are going by UK broadcast rules)

Normally they'd have people on the ground for most US events - especially when it gets to this point in the season and have their own commentary team and interviews etc and possibly even some cameras following any European guys the US networks aren't bothering with.
But with no travel for their staff we are seeing a much more taped together feed which amounts to what the US network broadcasts with a few highlights if a PGA Tour Live camera provides anything extra and a bit of additional chat from Nick, Sarah, Coltart, Beemer, McGinley etc in the studio.

sorry my mistake, I wasn't asking if they could do these things, they can do these things but folks are suggesting they cant do these things simply because its a host broadcaster feed & I don't agree with that
Sky are likely right not to do these things for this event but that's not to say they can't do these things with exactly the same feed as they got & they don't need to send a team overseas to do it