Anonymous
Years ago
Quality of Australian sports broadcasting
Personally, I think it's quite poor. But good, bad or indifferent, I thought we could use a thread to include examples of the current state of play.
From today's Perth vs Melbourne game:
- Pre match, Seb Costello and homicide discuss that homicide has heard about a potential bombshell about the wildcats lineup, with a starting player potentially missing. Presumably they're talking about Terrico White, who the wildcats Twitter already announced wouldn't be playing earlier in the day. The commentators don't disclose the name but say they'll ask coach Gleeson about it in the pre game interview.
Now this segment may have been recorded earlier, but if you know something is going to be shown live i think you should do better than that.
- Pre game, Seb Costello interview with Gleeson. He asks him how he feels given Perth has nearly, but not quite wrapped up top spot. Gleeson says he's not looking past today's game and trying to get a win against Melbourne. Costello follows that up by asking if he's started thinking about the Brisbane matchup. Gleeson replies "we're playing Melbourne today, aren't we?". Costello jokes that he believes do, but given Gleeson has come off a long flight maybe his mind is jumbled.
- half time interview, Costello asks cotton what he thinks about having "got the chocolates" over Ware today due to having 9 points vs 5 points for Ware.
Again, this isn't meant to necessarily be a negative thread but I thought if I'm going to have the opinion about broadcast quality being poor, I should at least try and back it up. Happy for good examples to be shared too.