TV Coverage

[Tamesaint]

Why do so many tv producers think that when watching sport we want close ups of people in the crowd or backroom staff picking their noses? I want to see what is happening on the pitch. Saints TV is pretty bad at missing the action and instead showing replays / crowd shots / managers on the touchline (Leicester nearly scored last week when we were being shown a replay)  but Sky's coverage of cricket this morning has been dreadful. Fruity birds jigging up and down waving Sri Lanka flags or 5 year old girls making heart shapes with their hands may appeal to some but why not just show the action on the pitch? 

Edited 8 hours ago by Tamesaint

[whelk]

2 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

Why do so many tv producers think that when watching sport we want close ups of people in the crowd or backroom staff picking their noses? I want to see what is happening on the pitch. Saints TV is pretty bad at missing the action and instead showing replays / crowd shots / managers on the touchline (Leicester nearly scored last week when we were being shown a replay)  but Sky's coverage of cricket this morning has been dreadful. Fruity birds jigging up and down waving Sri Lanka flags or 5 year old girls making heart shapes with their hands may appeal to some but why not just show the action on the pitch? 

TBF there is a lot of spare time in cricket

[Weston Super Saint]

Sometimes the football coverage on sky sports+ is awesome when they only have one camera. Forces them to focus on the action!

[Lord Duckhunter]

4 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

Fruity birds jigging up and down waving Sri Lanka flags

Is that a bad thing? 

[Turkish]

Depending who it is. A close up of a couple of decent birds is never a bad thing. When it’s idiots in the crowd in dress, people being wacky or the st Mary’s crowd with all our freaks I’d rather they didn’t 

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Turkish said:

Depending who it is. A close up of a couple of decent birds is never a bad thing. When it’s idiots in the crowd in dress, people being wacky or the st Mary’s crowd with all our freaks I’d rather they didn’t 

Not this fella...?