Commentary on TNT and other WB brands

[RedheadDane]

Bäcksted's co-commentator asking if there's "mechanic training" where they have to sit for four hours, then sprint.

And now he's trying to find a polite way to say that Aniolkowski is a bad climber.

 

[harrybo]

I just watched final stage of tour of holland today, how refreshing it was to listen to hutch and jose been, jose fairly knows her dutch cycling and as hutch went to my old school cant say anything bad bout him, the auld bluffer. Maybe Hatch and Adam should take a refresher course and listen in to this and see how it should be done before the new season starts.
And another thing... taped cyclo cross , watched the mens race , but was treated to world rally championship instead of womans race, seems Tnt just carrying on the way Eurosport got on , so be warned

 

[CXXC]

Yes, but they don't indicate the channel number, or lack of a channel number, on the new app. And their customer service laughing:) agents deny that there is any such thing as advertisement-free coverage of anything.

On Eurosport I could generally decide from picture style which was the 'non TV' advert free stream . Sadly on Discovery+ it's a game of chance as both images follow similar style with no consistency, sometimes it's to the right then left?

Anyone with tips to decide which is which without opening the stream and then backtracking to change.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

if there are different start times, (usually only a minute or two different), I believe the later start is likely to be the ad-free version, and the one to put on "My list".

But if it is after the start, I just open both, and close whichever has a channel number showing.

 

[CXXC]

Disappointed that there was no ad free stream for CX today from Merksplas,
women's race started with 2 streams listed, 1 quickly disappeared luckily 1 left was the online stream , men's race only saw the TNT1 stream left so I had to grin and bear ads unless I watched later FF through ads. Hope this was a 1 off?

 

[Wyndbrook]

Disappointed that there was no ad free stream for CX today from Merksplas,
women's race started with 2 streams listed, 1 quickly disappeared luckily 1 left was the online stream , men's race only saw the TNT1 stream left so I had to grin and bear ads unless I watched later FF through ads. Hope this was a 1 off?

I doubt it.

 

[HashRouge]

I was just wondering what UK viewers did this year, and what you're planning for next year? I got a half price offer for TNT when they first put their prices up, then cancelled it when that expired at the start of September. I then used a VPN and various different services to watch the rest of the Vuelta and the Canadian and Italian races. It was fine, but now I'm wondering what to do next year. I might subscribe to TNT for a month in time for MSR, Flanders and Roubaix, because it's nice to have all the build up and excitement in a language I understand.

 

[awavey]

depends what kind of deals they offer and how much it will cost me, I cant afford to spend £31 a month extra, on top of Sky on top of the licence fee just to watch tv occasionally, given a fair bit of what I want to watch ends up on their online service in favour of whatever tedious snooker match from china, or rugby (why in the hell has that been taking two of their channels recently showing the same goddam game at the same time!!) is shown instead..

I mean I dont know if it was coincidence that just this years races werent that interesting, must see events, or that it was just the switch from basically 6 channels down to 4, meant alot less of it was shown, it felt a bit retro often hunting for the highlight sessions in the planner for the womens racing especially, but I didnt find myself glued to watching TNT as I had done in previous years.

which factors into how much am I prepared to pay to subscribe to these things.

 

[harrybo]

Ritchie Benaud. Tony Greig, Aggers, Boycott, John Arlott .. who we got now... Hatch.....
Got up early this morning to watch the Ashes, hold on I recognise that voice.. it Hatch commenting on TNT ... thats another 7 weeks of him now.... he not fit to lace the boots of the Legends i,ve just mentioned... oh dear.....

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Ritchie Benaud. Tony Greig, Aggers, Boycott, John Arlott .. who we got now... Hatch.....
Got up early this morning to watch the Ashes, hold on I recognise that voice.. it Hatch commenting on TNT ... thats another 7 weeks of him now.... he not fit to lace the boots of the Legends i,ve just mentioned... oh dear.....

tbf most of them are dead.

 

[CXXC]

I was too surprised to hear Hatch but really did the England batsmen do any better , Boycott would despair at their cavalier attitude to batting.
However when I grumble about the cost of watching cycling at least I get to see cricket although I was less happy seeing England crumble.

 

[Tim Cahill]

You basically need 40+ years experience and international captaincy to be a cricket commentator, the bar to entry is that high. Some TNT exec who doesn't know anything about the game clearly just liked some of the cycling commentary and thought anyone could have a go. Nothing against Hatch as he's clearly a fan and who would turn down the opportunity.

Anyway 172 looks a daunting total, I wasn't on the verge of mental breakdown 3 hours ago I promise.

 

[wansteadimp]

Hatch obviously hates cricketers too, his lack of "no, no , No, No , NO" when Green got plonked on the head was very telling.

 

[awavey]

tbf most of them are dead.

They'd still be better trust me

 

[awavey]

... Nothing against Hatch as he's clearly a fan and who would turn down the opportunity.

A true fan would, especially when theyre stuck in London, as theyd understand theyre hopelessly out of their depth and that reeling off a bunch of stats every ball doesnt equal commentary in cricket.

 

[awavey]

I was too surprised to hear Hatch but really did the England batsmen do any better , Boycott would despair at their cavalier attitude to batting.
However when I grumble about the cost of watching cycling at least I get to see cricket although I was less happy seeing England crumble.

I literally posted that Hatch was doing this over a month ago.

But I cleverly managed to fall asleep on my sofa and wake up just in time for the 2nd over. Great start Crawley...but Duckett was wafting his bat at everything and by the time Hatch turned up, who didnt pick up on any of this maybe when you've lost an opener dig in for a bit, its 5 days not 100 balls, and then Duckett got himself out and then Root went. I thought ive had enough of this.

So I was pleasantly surprised to see the Aussies were just as bad.

Reminds me of that game at Nottingham where everyone seemed to be trying to finish the game early so they can go play golf.

The coverage is terrible though, they've not got the hang of ad breaks at all and the commentary, like I saw on social media the first time TNT comms noted the Barmies singing was after the Barmies had posted it on twitter and TNT reposted it.

 

[harrybo]

Hatch obviously hates cricketers too, his lack of "no, no , No, No , NO" when Green got plonked on the head was very telling.

ah, I missed that

 

[CXXC]

The coverage is terrible though, they've not got the hang of ad breaks at all and the commentary, like I saw on social media the first time TNT comms noted the Barmies singing was after the Barmies had posted it on twitter and TNT reposted it.

Ad after ad , I know I'm not the average consumer but are ads not counter productive? I would never buy a product that's ads annoyed me so much .

 

[harrybo]

well we only had to suffer 2 days of hatch, disaster

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

well we only had to suffer 2 days of hatch, disaster

So did he put on an Aussie accent every time he named an Australian?

 

[awavey]

So did he put on an Aussie accent every time he named an Australian?

I cant say I noticed, but it was very early in the morning and my patience was even thinner than normal so muted it.

I suspect by the time we get to Adelaide he'll be chucking out all kinds of Australian versions of words.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I know I take the mickey out of it, but I can sort of forgive errors made in the environment of live broadcast and the confusion of the unknown. What seems entirely unnecessary and unprofessional, is when there have been months to prepare a script, and as many opportunities as anyone could need to stop and re-record, such as in the season review.

And yet, we have "Italian team XDS Astana", Ben Healy described as a former yellow-jersey wearer on a stage in which he was very visibly in yellow, some strange unintelligible garbling as his first attempt at saying the word "Quebec".

And the doozy: "Bulgarian fast man Jesper Philipsen" How does anyone even bring themselves to utter such a sentence???

 

[RedheadDane]

Ben Healy described as a former yellow-jersey wearer on a stage in which he was very visibly in yellow

Wait, that was recorded back then, when Healy was still very much in yellow?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wait, that was recorded back then, when Healy was still very much in yellow?

No, but describing in the end of season summary the stage when that was the case.

 

[awavey]

I know I take the mickey out of it, but I can sort of forgive errors made in the environment of live broadcast and the confusion of the unknown. What seems entirely unnecessary and unprofessional, is when there have been months to prepare a script, and as many opportunities as anyone could need to stop and re-record, such as in the season review.

And yet, we have "Italian team XDS Astana", Ben Healy described as a former yellow-jersey wearer on a stage in which he was very visibly in yellow, some strange unintelligible garbling as his first attempt at saying the word "Quebec".

And the doozy: "Bulgarian fast man Jesper Philipsen" How does anyone even bring themselves to utter such a sentence???

Ive not seen it yet, so dont know who the commentator was, but back in the Eurosport days it was common practice for them to do the voice over on highlight reels as it aired live, so they were never pre-recorded packages, the pictures were put together obviously in advance, but the first airing of the highlights was essentially commentated "as live". which did of course throw up the odd mistake.