That's a great combination. Lee Dixon also works for ITV, doing their UCL games and internationals. So he's currently in Brazil. He's one of the better analysts (and was a pretty decent left back for Arsenal). I was disappointed when he moved to ITV from the BBC because they get so little time to say anything while they squeeze in the commercials.
The combination of him and Arlo White means NBC has a really good team - way better than some of the teams we have to put up with here, the worst being Clive Tyldsley and Andy Townsend who are the main pair on ITV. Townsend in particular is dreadful and I'll even try to sync up a radio commentary over the pictures rather than listen to him. No mean feat in a digital age when no two signals are in sync. I should point out that moaning about sports commentators in Britain is a national passtime. We love it! Adam On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To be honest, it tends to be a commentator by commentator thing in my >> experience, although ESPN may ask their people to say more, and in a game >> as big as that, providing additional explanatory commentary for those not >> used to watching the sport that often. >> >> Funnily enough, I've just watched the Algeria v Russia game on ITV4. In >> its infinite wisdom, ITV chose to put on a fairly dead rubber in Belgium v >> South Korea on its main channel. So they shunted the alternative >> winner-takes-all game onto their sister station, where they used Arlo White >> for commentary. I like him, and enjoyed hearing him when he used to do BBC >> Five Live radio coverage before he disappeared off to work at NBC. His ITV4 >> commentary was positively spartan in comparison to most coverage - with >> long pauses when neither he nor his co-commentator spoke at all. It should >> be noted that he was doing it "off tube" back in London, and you can always >> tell when that's the case. >> >> [email protected] <[email protected]>>In my experience Ian Darke likes to >> fill every moment with some carefully researched stat, so I'm not surprised >> you found it quite busy. >> > > Arlo White calls the NBC EPL games with Lee Dixon and I like the way they > call the games. They are about the best I have heard over here. > > My theory about why American sports announcing teams are so busy is that > the producers and announcers all came from radio where constant chatter > made sense. The producers kept is a model for announcing even when other > countries adapted when they figured out audiences could watch the action > for themselves. > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
