OLN Coverage Sucked

C. Zoh

I thought it was completely disjointed, but I guess it's better than nothing.

How about that Leif Hoste and that flag? I am in utter amazement that
he kept his bike up. Wow.

Jiyang Chen

The coverage was total crap. 20 min of commercials.
"C. Zoh" <shelmerdudley@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I thought it was completely disjointed, but I guess it's better than
nothing.
>
> How about that Leif Hoste and that flag? I am in utter amazement that
> he kept his bike up. Wow.
>

SMMB

"Jiyang Chen" <no@no.no> a écrit dans le message de :
news:c5cbup$ncc@dispatch.concentric.net...
> The coverage was total crap. 20 min of commercials.
> "C. Zoh" <shelmerdudley@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:2004041116012016807%shelmerdudley@earthlinknet...
> > I thought it was completely disjointed, but I guess it's better than
> nothing.
> >
> > How about that Leif Hoste and that flag? I am in utter amazement that
> > he kept his bike up. Wow.
> >
What did you watch & France 2 had it on for five hours - no commercials.

Jiyang Chen

The coverage in America is brought to us by OLN.

curt

You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is. We got
the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was covered
at all.

Curt


"SMMB" <leurre@free.fr> wrote in message
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> "Jiyang Chen" <no@no.no> a écrit dans le message de :
> news:c5cbup$ncc@dispatch.concentric.net...
> > The coverage was total crap. 20 min of commercials.
> > "C. Zoh" <shelmerdudley@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:2004041116012016807%shelmerdudley@earthlinknet...
> > > I thought it was completely disjointed, but I guess it's better than
> > nothing.
> > >
> > > How about that Leif Hoste and that flag? I am in utter amazement that
> > > he kept his bike up. Wow.
> > >
> What did you watch & France 2 had it on for five hours - no commercials.
>
>

Mike Jacoubowsky

> You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is. We got
> the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was
covered
> at all.

Agreed, great that we did have coverage. But it wasn't very good... the
first half-hour seemed useless, so, out of a 5+ hour race, you get one-half
hour of decent race coverage? No, if it was decent race coverage, there
wouldn't have been so much question during the final part of the race as to
where George Hincapie disappeared to.

Seemed like they could have done a better job of cherry-picking the better
parts of the race to show, since it's put together hours before it's shown.
And they could have edited it better so we knew in semi-real-time what was
going on with George. It's not like they didn't play up George a lot before
and during the race!

Maybe it will make more sense when I watch it again.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
http://www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Jiyang Chen

Last year was a lot better, and showed a lot of the crashes.



"Mike Jacoubowsky" <mikej1@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> > You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is.
We got
> > the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was
> covered
> > at all.
>
> Agreed, great that we did have coverage. But it wasn't very good...
the
> first half-hour seemed useless, so, out of a 5+ hour race, you get
one-half
> hour of decent race coverage? No, if it was decent race coverage,
there
> wouldn't have been so much question during the final part of the race
as to
> where George Hincapie disappeared to.
>
> Seemed like they could have done a better job of cherry-picking the
better
> parts of the race to show, since it's put together hours before it's
shown.
> And they could have edited it better so we knew in semi-real-time what
was
> going on with George. It's not like they didn't play up George a lot
before
> and during the race!
>
> Maybe it will make more sense when I watch it again.
>
> --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
> http://www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
>
>

Sonarrat

in article c5cnvf$nd4@dispatch.concentric.net, Jiyang Chen at no@no.no wrote
on 4/11/04 5:30 PM:

> Last year was a lot better, and showed a lot of the crashes.

So it's not just NASCAR...

-Sonarrat.

h squared

"C. Zoh" wrote:
>
> I thought it was completely disjointed, but I guess it's better than nothing.
>
> How about that Leif Hoste and that flag? I am in utter amazement that
> he kept his bike up. Wow.


i had problems following it too. i actually like that they showed some
of the earlier parts of the race, but the final bit was confusing. mike
made a good point that since they had time to edit it, they could have
done a better job.

i went out for 5 hours this morning/afternoon until i crashed my own
self out of tiredness. came home all sticky and dirty and sore, in
perfect shape to watch my tape of the race when j.m. flatted i
scared the crap out of my dog because i yelled "NOOOOOOO!!" so loud she
thought she was in serious trouble.
heather

Wade Summers

"curt" <nospam@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is. We got
> the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was
covered
> at all.
>
> Curt


It was disappointing because OLN has been doing 2 hours for PR for the last
2 or 3 years. Their two hour coverage was very good. Going back to a
disjointed hour sucked.


Wade

K

The most frustrating thing was that they used one hour of the allotted
cycling coverage for a race (Flanders) that had been repeated a few times
already. They did the same for Flanders last week. They could have done a
decent job with 2 hours of the PR and 2 hrs of Flanders last week.
Incredibly disjointed. I got a better feel for the race reading the "live"
text coverage on the web.

Kendall

"Mike Jacoubowsky" <mikej1@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> > You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is. We
got
> > the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was
> covered
> > at all.
>
> Agreed, great that we did have coverage. But it wasn't very good... the
> first half-hour seemed useless, so, out of a 5+ hour race, you get
one-half
> hour of decent race coverage? No, if it was decent race coverage, there
> wouldn't have been so much question during the final part of the race as
to
> where George Hincapie disappeared to.
>
> Seemed like they could have done a better job of cherry-picking the better
> parts of the race to show, since it's put together hours before it's
shown.
> And they could have edited it better so we knew in semi-real-time what was
> going on with George. It's not like they didn't play up George a lot
before
> and during the race!
>
> Maybe it will make more sense when I watch it again.
>
> --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
> http://www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
>
>

Jiyang Chen

"Sonarrat" <mynick@nospam.hotmail> wrote in message
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> in article c5cnvf$nd4@dispatch.concentric.net, Jiyang Chen at no@no.no
wrote
> on 4/11/04 5:30 PM:
>
> > Last year was a lot better, and showed a lot of the crashes.
>
> So it's not just NASCAR...
>
> -Sonarrat.
>

What are you talking about? Crashes of Paris-Roubaix are the best part.
Are you implying that people watch the engaging racing? Absurd!

Mapei81

I agree with everybody else that the one-hour show was poorly chosen and
edited. Their coverage of Flanders, for example, seemed better, even though it
was also only an hour of highlights.

For me, the story going into this year's race was Museeuw, yet they didn't
really emphasize it much - no pre-race shots of him, not all that much in-race
focus compared to what they gave George, and nothing post-race at all about the
end of one of the most glorious careers of this generation. A disappointment.

Tom Kunich

"curt" <nospam@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> You must understand, the US is not a cycling country. France is. We got
> the coverage one would expect here in the US. I am surprised it was
covered
> at all.

So tell me why I was in that cycling country for two weeks and until the
Tour stage in Paris I never saw a single Frenchman on a racing bike?