TV coverage of the Games - Nine and Gem / Foxtel

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TV coverage of the Games - Nine and Gem / Foxtel

Postby BZB27 » Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:32 pm

I thought that channel nine was gonna use gem to show other sports aswell. Instead of having the exact same thing on. Just seems a bit pointless to me havin the same thing on two channels.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Sploosh » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:39 pm

100% agree. Quite ridiculous!
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Q. » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:40 pm

Yep, will be a bit pissed if I don't get to see any boxing, wrestling or weightlifting.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Dirko » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:51 pm

I was watching the commercials and the ******* Olympics interrupted.....
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby best on hill » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:52 pm

i must say that 9 are doing a carp house job of broadcasting the games.
the commentating is boring and with out passion.
they need too take a leaf out of the ABC radio book who genuinely get excited about what they are calling.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby The Big Shrek » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:53 pm

**** Chanel nine off. Ch 7 know how to do the job properly.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby whufc » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:58 pm

Q. wrote:Yep, will be a bit pissed if I don't get to see any boxing, wrestling or weightlifting.


All 3 are showing now live on Fox.

Thank F**k for Foxtel worth every cent even if only for the sport channels.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Jim05 » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:00 pm

whufc wrote:
Q. wrote:Yep, will be a bit pissed if I don't get to see any boxing, wrestling or weightlifting.


All 3 are showing now live on Fox.

Thank F**k for Foxtel worth every cent even if only for the sport channels.

Yep, if it wasnt for F1 I wouldnt ever watch FTA
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Squids » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:02 am

Do they have to change sports every 5 minutes, its annoying as f***. They have other channels available, don't they have 3 extra channels, that's not including GEM?
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby whufc » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:35 am

No point starting another thread but absolutly loving foxtels coverage so far.

Real easy to follow with every channel showing a different event.

The guide is brilliant looks something like
Live: Medal: Cycling (Womens cycling road race)

or for non medal events

Live: Canoe Slalom (mens heats 1st and 2nd runs)

Can easily tell whether it is only heats or whether gold medals are up for grabs. They follow the sport exactly to the end and then have Olympic updates in between each event finishing.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Squids » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:55 am

Incase you missed it the first 3000 times

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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby woodublieve12 » Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:01 am

Squids wrote:Incase you missed it the first 3000 times

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nah didnt notice :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby RustyCage » Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:09 am

was watching earlier and while live sport was happening at the time, c9 were showing some crap prerecorded story about one of our athletes.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Squids » Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:17 am

woodublieve12 wrote:
Squids wrote:Incase you missed it the first 3000 times

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nah didnt notice :lol: :lol: :lol:


sorry I forgot one

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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Squawk » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:59 pm

Yeah, C9 is pi55ing me off too, big time.
They took up broadcasting the TDU to promote themselves as the Olympic broadcaster.
Now during the Olympics, they are promoting future programs as well as themselves - plenty of news updates, for example.
James Brayshaw commentating the rowing? Please.

I must say I was disappointed by the coverage of the men's and women's cycling road race - the Tour de France is streets ahead with information on time gaps, chasing groups, course details etc.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Westsider » Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:59 pm

GEM is HD

9 isn't
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby saintal » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:52 pm

Yep. At least at the last games we had SBS as an alternative, showing a lot of the team sports. This time around we get two channels of swimming heats and gymnastics (when the ads/promos aren't playing). It's just one big $$$ making exercise for C9. Have enjoyed ABC Radio's work so far though.

One of those scrolling 'tracker' things at the bottom of the screen would be useful for live scores/results from the other venues.
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby on the rails » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:19 pm

I didn't think C9 could be as bad as C7 re the past Olympics but so far C9 is the gold medal favourite for worst coverage. Fortunately I have Foxtel but I am in Perth for work and of course even though the Hotel has the limited Foxtel package no Olympic channels were added due the high codt of normal hotel package. The Hotel Manager told me a short time ago that Foxtel wanted an additional $5K for the 8 channels!
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Bully » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:58 pm

Brayman19 wrote:I thought that channel nine was gonna use gem to show other sports aswell. Instead of having the exact same thing on. Just seems a bit pointless to me havin the same thing on two channels.



get foxtel. you can see it all
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Re: Nine and Gem

Postby Squids » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:55 pm

Squids wrote:
woodublieve12 wrote:
Squids wrote:Incase you missed it the first 3000 times

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will all be starting after the olympics


nah didnt notice :lol: :lol: :lol:


sorry I forgot one

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new Dallas starting after the olympics
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