On Saturday, July 6, 2013 5:29:03 PM UTC-4, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > At the Big W, John Inverdale asked Radio 5 listeners after Marion Bartoli > finished off Williams-upsetter Sabine Lisicki, her first Grand Slam title, > “Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little 'You’re never > going to be a looker? You’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be > scrappy and fight.’” > > He tried to portray his line as "nice" afterward, but given his past > history of what some call "sexist and patronising," it wasn't washing with, > say, the Twitterverse... Dr Walter Bartoli, let it be said, stayed cool > about it... > Telegraph<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/10164511/Wimbledon-2013-BBC-apologise-for-John-Inverdales-Bartoli-not-a-looker-comment.html> > > -- B. > > >
I watched the ABC afternoon playback of the Women's Final. At the beginning of the 3-hour taped broadcast, anchor Mike Tirico promised the audience that if they missed the match earlier on ESPN, "you'll see it in its entirety." Well, not quite. The broadcast started at 3pm ET with a bio reel, analysis, the coin flip, warmups, etc. Fifteen minutes in, just as the actual match was about to start, ABC News broke in with coverage of the San Francisco airplane crash. (Anchor David Muir did an excellent job, doing phone interviews with experts and eyewitnesses.) That lasted until 4:02pm. Then there was a commercial break, then the tennis resumed... except ABC had kept the tape rolling, so the first set was already over. And since the match only had two sets today, that was half the action. Bartoli hit the winning ace at 4:50, and the remaining hour plus was devoted to the closing ceremony, analysis, a preview of the Men's Final, and an interview with the new champion. I know this was an emergency, and given what happened in San Francisco, it doesn't matter much. But given that people watch tennis to watch, you know, tennis, you'd think that a technician at ABC would have been able to make the call to stop the tape until the Special Report was over, then just cut out the unnecessary stuff at the end. -Tim -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
