by SnookerFan » 08 Jun 2015 Read
The BBC adds extra streams for Glastonbury and for Wimbledon. But the World Snooker Championship doesn't get that.
http://www.a516digital.com/2015/05/glas ... of-tv.htmlI mean, I'd rather spend two weeks sat watching a blank screen, than the pure unmitigated boredom that is watching a tennis tournament.
I guess snooker just isn't popular enough. That or they just don't care that much about snooker. A bit of both, I suppose.
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by Wildey » 08 Jun 2015 Read
its just snobbery.
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by Muppet147 » 08 Jun 2015 Read
SnookerFan wrote:The BBC adds extra streams for Glastonbury and for Wimbledon. But the World Snooker Championship doesn't get that.
http://www.a516digital.com/2015/05/glas ... of-tv.htmlI mean, I'd rather spend two weeks sat watching a blank screen, than the pure unmitigated boredom that is watching a tennis tournament.
I guess snooker just isn't popular enough. That or they just don't care that much about snooker. A bit of both, I suppose.
No idea what you are gibbering on about. Snooker gets plenty of coverage. And Wimbledon is one of the highlights of the year - better than that homosexual Eurovision crap you watch.
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by Dan-cat » 08 Jun 2015 Read
If they didn't care about snooker, it wouldn't be on... I think we are pretty lucky really. Not bad coverage for a back room bar game.
ps. I sometimes watch a bit of Wimbledon! Don't hate me! :)
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by Andy Spark » 08 Jun 2015 Read
Snooker has ruined its image over the years by using loads of smoking and gambling sponsors, Wimbledon hasn't. If you associate your product with dodgy products then you get treated like a dodgy product yourself. That's why snooker doesn't get the extra channel.
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by Wildey » 08 Jun 2015 Read
Andy Spark wrote:Snooker has ruined its image over the years by using loads of smoking and gambling sponsors, Wimbledon hasn't. If you associate your product with dodgy products then you get treated like a dodgy product yourself. That's why snooker doesn't get the extra channel.
Thats called Snobbery
We dont even know where Wimbledon gets it money from because its Branded as Wimbledon not Embassy Wimbledon Championship but over the years tobacco has sponsored Tennis tournaments.
and 4 years after the last Snooker event to be sponsored by tobacco a tennis event in Switzerland was sponsored by Tobacco
http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4270
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by SnookerFan » 08 Jun 2015 Read
Muppet147 wrote:No idea what you are gibbering on about.
You don't know how to watch BBC Interactive?
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by Ronnie79 » 09 Jun 2015 Read
A lot of you are missing the original point that was made which is correct. If a match at wimbledon over runs they extend the programme to finish the match. They dont do that with snooks they end the show which is poor.
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by SnookerFan » 09 Jun 2015 Read
Ronnie79 wrote:A lot of you are missing the original point that was made which is correct. If a match at wimbledon over runs they extend the programme to finish the match. They dont do that with snooks they end the show which is poor.
Usually for a repeat of a cookery show.
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by Muppet147 » 09 Jun 2015 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Ronnie79 wrote:A lot of you are missing the original point that was made which is correct. If a match at wimbledon over runs they extend the programme to finish the match. They dont do that with snooks they end the show which is poor.
Usually for a repeat of a cookery show.
There you go talking about food again.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 09 Jun 2015 Read
Tennis has a long history of tobacco sponsors, particularly Women's Tennis.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 09 Jun 2015 Read
Realistically the World Championship is a long way below Wimbledon In terms of importance. It's regularly broke ten million in the last few years and there are more big name players both men and women then Snooker. Also tennis matches are much shorter than Snooker.
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by SnookerFan » 17 Aug 2016 Read
Wild was mentioning on Twitter the seven streams that the Olympics get on the red button. I'd tweeted the BBC the same thing earlier.
I wonder if we'll get a response. Doubtful.
Seemed a good time to bump this thread.
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by Wildey » 17 Aug 2016 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Wild was mentioning on Twitter the seven streams that the Olympics get on the red button. I'd tweeted the BBC the same thing earlier.
I wonder if we'll get a response. Doubtful.
Seemed a good time to bump this thread.
its just not on showing rubbish Olympic sports like weightlifting on the red button that wont get any viewers at all and then saying we cant afford to have more than one feed for things that can get viewers.
Double standards the BBC are becoming famous for and Barry Hearn and World Snooker suck up to them like pathetic idiots they are.
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by SnookerFan » 18 Aug 2016 Read
In Hearn's defence, it's important for snooker to maintain a freeview presence.
I just wish the BBC saw snooker as a proper sport, and not as a way of filling daytime TV schedules.
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by SnookerFan » 18 Aug 2016 Read
The Olympics always seems to be a bit of a celebration of being a fair weather fans to me.
Fair enough if you're into the sports you're watching anyway. But most of it is people just getting excited over a sport they aren't going to watch for another four years.
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