This is a wind up right?
The Open 2016 - TV Coverage
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This is a wind up right?
GB72
Money List Winner
Has not been live cricket on terrestrial TV for years. Has not stopped the number of people at my local cricket club increasing year on year. There is very little live football or rugby on free to air TV either but people keep wanting to play.
Kids are not the problem, there are loads of kids at golf clubs at weekends. The shortage is 20-40 year olds and there are so many other things keeping them away from golf that not being able to see 4 days of golf on the BBC is going to make so little difference. And let's face it, if you are not a golfer, 4 days of golf is not exactly thrilling viewing until the last couple of hours
Kids are not the problem, there are loads of kids at golf clubs at weekends. The shortage is 20-40 year olds and there are so many other things keeping them away from golf that not being able to see 4 days of golf on the BBC is going to make so little difference. And let's face it, if you are not a golfer, 4 days of golf is not exactly thrilling viewing until the last couple of hours
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Not a great start 20 minutes in and already missed 2nd group tee'ing off the 1st and 2 of the three 1st group tee shots missed on the 2nd, all while cameras were on the studio pundits or weather report!
Why not have camera on players with audio from studio?
Why not have camera on players with audio from studio?
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Is there no golf going on..?
Surely they've been doing all this build up all week..?
Surely they've been doing all this build up all week..?
super hans
Assistant Pro
this is absolute torture to watch - i think its been about 17 minutes since we last saw a shot.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
There's no Peter Allis and Sarah Stick has some leather jeans and killer high heels on. I'm liking it. But I'm shallow like that. 
As I have a NowTV box it's only £10.99 for a weeks Sky Sports pass, well worth it for |The Open
Pathetic Shark
Tour Rookie
Yeah like the BBC would have been so focused on shots when they could have run features like floating ducks down the Swilcan Burn or Alliss making sexist comments about old ladies sitting knitting whilst looking at the sea.
The Sky coverage is light years ahead of anything the BBC have or could have done.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Difference is that the BBC wouldn't have wasted n hours coverage like Sky did. That first hour was worthless.
steveo77
Newbie
haha I thought there would be a backlash against the SKY coverage
be careful what you wish for hey?
steveo77
Newbie
why would that post have been a wind up? Its a totally accurate post about what has happened.
MendieGK
Tour Winner
Thats right, blame the tories for the golf moving to Sky..... 4 posts, so far steveo, and all of them are trash.
People can moan all they like about the cost etc, but Boxing is £16 to watch for a few hours, and people are paying it, and the sport is growing quickly.
Peter Allis and Ken Brown are not going to get people to play golf. Nick Dougherty, Ian Poulter and others will.
I just dont see how it can be argued. its £10 for a week if you dont have it normally, absolute pittance for what you get.
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Deleted member 15344
Guest
Which sport is growing quickly ? Boxing ? I would be surprised to see any link between pay per view and increased participation and Golf isn't growing quickly
I don't see how commentators can be used for growing the game - some will switch off because of sky commentators and some will switch off because of the BBC ones - think that will balance itself out
It's not just £10 a week though - if using Now Tv you need the box and you need Internet that's good enough to make it worth while or you have Sky which for the normally packages is around £60-70 a month now and that all adds up for some people
At the end of the day less people now watch the Open - ( even the Event itself is struggling to sell out all the hospititaly etc ) for me that's not a good thing - a reduction is viewing public is never good for any sport
Sky have done well with their run up programs even if overkill on the repeats but the main action is normal sky - dominated by studio talk , gadgets , adverts and because they can't advertise as much they have adverts for their own coverage - it's more focus on "look how well we can cover the sport " - instead of showing the actual golf - it's US style broadcasting
I just want to watch the guys hit the ball - that's all IMO they should concentrate on
Aztecs27
Money List Winner
I wonder whether the R&A have had a say in this? The same way that it happens with the US coverage - they have to limit the live coverage before a certain time. They certainly showed quite a few shots from 6:30-6:45 when I watched it earlier this morning..It's been solid coverage since about 9:30am, which is hours before the BBC coverage would have even started, so I can't really worry too much about it.
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Separate point, but is Boxing growing quickly? Boxing has lost all of its high profile draws and is on its arse. With WME-IMG buying the UFC, expect MMA to boom in the next 10 years.
It is £10 a week. You don't need a Now TV box. You can download the app on basically any device and make an account. I'm watching using the free Now TV pass on my iPhone right now, made an account this morning.
It is £10 a week. You don't need a Now TV box. You can download the app on basically any device and make an account. I'm watching using the free Now TV pass on my iPhone right now, made an account this morning.
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Watching online at work at the moment - feed keeps going into spinning mode and freezing every few minutes, anyone else having similar issues?
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Nope. Has worked absolutely perfectly all morning for me, zero buffering and been very impressed with the quality!
williamalex1
Money List Winner
Worked out pretty good , i recorded it on my Tivo box from the start, now watching it at my leisure. Fast forwarding adverts. Please don't tell me up to date scores :smirk:.
C'mon Monty , i got a fiver e/w @ 250/1 , also a fiver e/w on Furyk @ 80/1 , paying 1/4 odds for the first 6 places :whoo:
C'mon Monty , i got a fiver e/w @ 250/1 , also a fiver e/w on Furyk @ 80/1 , paying 1/4 odds for the first 6 places :whoo:
It's 2016. Kids aren't sat around with 4 options on what to watch and 'stumble' across golf on BBC2 and then decide to play. It's naive thinking that The Open on BBC would increase participation simply because its always been there, especially with out of touch commentators and a lack of investment in their coverage, showing no innovation year or year.
In reality, far more people will be exposed to The Open due to the way people consume media now. If someone gets an outrageous hole in one or plays a 'trick' shot to get out of a bunker, far, far more people will see it due to viral nature of social media then 10 years ago if it was just shown live on BBC. Looking at just the viewing figures for BBC and comparing them to Sky is a 20 year old benchmark. Look at the way people consume music now - if you compared radio listeners and CD buyers in key demographics from 10 years ago to today you would conclude it's bad for music, when in reality it's more popular than ever, just consumed in a different way.
As for the hospitality comment - its location, location, location. Possibly the toughest course to attract sponsorship on the rota. Comparable to cricket - The Oval sells hospitality out 10 years in advance through debenture sponsorship schemes whilst the northern grounds are scratching around desperately.
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Deleted member 15344
Guest
Kids can only stumble across golf if their parents have a sky subscription - it's as simple as that , if you want to watch the biggest golf comp on the calender you now pay a subscription of some sort - how many "non golf" fans are going to pay to watch it ?
Which ever way it is dressed up the golf is now being shown in less people's houses in this country - it doesn't matter who commentates or what shot tracers are used,
For me the less people spectating a sport is not a good thing , that to me won't help encourage anyone to take up the sport
