Whose Masters coverage was the best BBC or Sky?

Dont have Sky so no option but BBC, would like to watch more sport on TV but refuse to pay Sky's rip off prices. Have to say their golf team is weak overall and Mark Roe is a complete bell end talking as though he was a great player and won loads of tournaments, this is the man that cocked up his own scorecard and got Dq'd at The Open he alone is enough reason for the off switch.
 
Sky for me. In depth coverage before and during. I hate Andrew Cotta in the way others hate Monty and Roe. Alliss is past his sell by which is a sad thing to say about a broadcasting legend and Ken Brown is in danger of becoming a joke with his segments. Add in things like Masters breakfast and Sky win hands down
 
Pros and cons both ways, but 2 days of Critchley was more than enough for me, so went for the Beeb at the weekend. Plus I'm allergic to ads.
 
Sky for me, better coverage, better commentators IMHO.

I don't think Sky is a rip off, 65p a day for all that sport is well worth it.

Your TV licence is around 40p a day and I realise that is for all programmes but far less sports coverage
 
Not blaming sky for the licence. But the fact is like it or not you have to pay the licence first so thats what £160 is it cant remember the exact figure. Then if you want Sky sports that is £21 a month I believe so thats £250 a year just for sport and do you have to have another package or can you have just the sports channels. Another thing I do not like is the fact you cannot just pay for what you want to watch for example a golf channel and such like. They put all these other sports on which I am not interested in the slightest like yawn fests such as F1 and Rugby. Football if I want to watch a match then I will go to pub to watch it. On top of that I would not give Murdoch and his family a penny of my money.
 
In_The_Rough said:
Not blaming sky for the licence. But the fact is like it or not you have to pay the licence first so thats what £160 is it cant remember the exact figure. Then if you want Sky sports that is £21 a month I believe so thats £250 a year just for sport and do you have to have another package or can you have just the sports channels. Another thing I do not like is the fact you cannot just pay for what you want to watch for example a golf channel and such like. They put all these other sports on which I am not interested in the slightest like yawn fests such as F1 and Rugby. Football if I want to watch a match then I will go to pub to watch it. On top of that I would not give Murdoch and his family a penny of my money.
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Yeah you have to have the basic package and add the Sports.

They do PPV on their Now TV service but I've obviously never used it
 
How much is the basic package? If each Sport had its own channel that you could subscibe to rather than all the stuff you dont care about and you did not have to have a basic package, like in the USA you pay per channel you have, want 100 channels you pay for 100 want 1 you pay for 1. If this was the case I would swallow my pride and sign up to a golf channel on sky.
 
In_The_Rough said:
How much is the basic package? If each Sport had its own channel that you could subscibe to rather than all the stuff you dont care about and you did not have to have a basic package, like in the USA you pay per channel you have, want 100 channels you pay for 100 want 1 you pay for 1. If this was the case I would swallow my pride and sign up to a golf channel on sky.
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Can't remember, probably another £20 or so.

A Sky Golf channel would be great!
 
SAPCOR1 said:
Can't remember, probably another £20 or so.

A Sky Golf channel would be great!
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Wow so its £41 a month which is nearly £500 a year. That is a lot of money. Years supply of golf balls for me that:) As I say if there was a specialised golf channel which you could subscribe to on its own I would sign up for that. I think they would do a good job of it as well to be fair providing Roe was not involved, cant stand that bloke. When an event was on they could screen it from start to finish which would fill 4 days of coverage up. Cannot see it happening though.
 
Fader said:
Hell yeah a lot more than I can stand Allis and his warbling about days gone by. At least with Monty he is a buffoon but at least he's played the course in the last 30 years competitively.
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Can I question the use of the word competitively.

I am a long term fan of Peter Alliss but agree he is getting near the end of his shelf life. However, the Beeb do have Grady, Brown, Cotter & Irvine.
Fortunately they don't have Critchley, Roe, Livingstone & Monty.
 
richart said:
BBC for me. I hate adverts, and it meant not listening to Monty.

Peter Alliss came out with a classic for me, that had me laughing out loud. Discusing length, he said 'done the course, please send the muscles' Unfortunately I am old enough to remember all the body building ads from the 70's.
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That had me giggling as well. Love listening to him, especially when he rambles on which is oddly what a lot of people seem to dislike about him :confused:

I was watching on Sky the first couple of days, but switched to BBC for the weekend. One line from Monty totally summed him up for me. They were showing a shot and as it rolled to a stop the right distance but a little offline he said "and that is - as we say - pin high".
Like people don't know what pin high means! Not sure if the right word is condescending or patronising, but he epitomises it.

A couple of things that I didn't like about the beeb coverage though.
1. Ken Brown seems like he is trying to live up to a parody of himself and reminds me more and more of David Bellamy in each little segment I see.
2. The guy doing the post round interviews asking stupid questions.

To Tiger Woods. "Describe your last 24 hours"
To Bubba Watson. "What happened on the 12th hole?"

Got to love Bubba's answer though. "I sunk a good putt for a 10".
 
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