Sky Sports rant
(Posted 14:29:53 on 16th March 2008 by Mr O)
Not that I mean to use this blog as a place to vent my spleen, but I want to add my voice to those other web dissenters over Sky's coverage of Nascar.
It was bad enough that last week the missed the first 34 laps of the race because they were showing live badminton. I wouldn't have minded if the game involved a British team or fit women, but no it was two teams of Korean men. They also are very bad at coping with the copious advert breaks from the US coverage, handing back too early or too late.
However this week, only 5 weeks into a season where they claim to be showing the entire season exclusively live that we get "as live" coverage 4 hours later than the start time. Added to this the "as live" show is only two and a half hours long, which is not long enough to cover the entire race let alone any pre or post race activities. Even worse, the programs on at the time the race actually started were a 2 hour golf discussion show and "as live" coverage of the first A1GP race from Mexico (again no explanation as to why this wasn't shown live)
Come on Sky, get your act together, either be serious about the coverage or let someone else who can do it, do it.
On a lighter(?) note, in a recent survey, this weekend was deemed as the most dangerous to be riding a motorbike. Apparently one in seven motorbike collisions involve a Ford Focus, followed by a Fiesta and a Transit van. You've got to be pretty unlucky yo get hit by all three in a row.
