Comments on: UCI_Overlord presents the Overlord Giro Awards

By: Tinea_Pedis

Tinea_Pedis — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:02:29 +0000

@nickobec @UCI_Overlord I feel for you Nick, but fact is SBS need to run programs that will keep their ratings up before switching to cycling. If they had the coin I’m sure they would look to cut the programs or, as logic would suggest, use one of their 4 digital channels to show the cycling at the same time as us Eastern folk.

Flip side is, at least you get to bed at a reasonable hour once it’s all said and done 😉 #notallbad

By: nickobec

nickobec — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:26:19 +0000

@UCI_Overlord The SBS team do a great job and from my contacts with them are as frustrated as the Australian cycling fans living outside of NSW & Victoria. Unfortunately the SBS management is not disimilar to the UCI management, in that they do not understand modern cycling or words like live.

By: UCI_Overlord

UCI_Overlord — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:04:32 +0000

@nickobec Unfortunately or fortunately, I don’t live in Australia, and didn’t see the live TV production. I’m judging solely by what they made available to those outside of the continent. I was impressed with all the members of the team for their tweets and also the internet offerings. Maybe they should just stream live online….

By: nickobec

nickobec — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:28:11 +0000

For the west coast of Australia and the bits in the middle, Gazzetta provided best Giro coverage, SBS “live” coverage was delayed 2 hours.

Given the choice of watching the Gazzetta live stream at 8:30pm and using twitter or waiting until 11pm for “live” SBS coverage and ignoring twitter and everything else from 9pm. It has been Gazzetta for the last 3 years for me.
Now if only the Vuelta could do something similar.

By: UCI_Overlord

UCI_Overlord — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:19:33 +0000

@norbs Ah, I’ve always got much love for the Norbs! In a perfect world, you need two teams to cover live…. 😉

By: norbs

norbs — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:53:25 +0000

What, not a bloody mention? Where is that block button?

Harmon and Kelly at SBS would mean Keenan and McGrory would go where? Maybe McGrory could translate for Kelly.