[censored] that as soon as it stops raining in London that the TdF sprints are taken off SBS in place of the far more interesting action packed game of cricket?
Email SBS marketing, and CC each of the companies that are advertising within the ad breaks of the cricket, alerting them to the fact that you will be boycotting each of the named companies.
The first company is whoever makes the "Falcon two mark SR" (how appropriate, eh? 🙂
I do wonder whether sales@ford would start to get twitchy if a whole bunch of people told them they were being boycotted because they paid for advertement to support a multicultural television network that decided to show a boring england-australia (really multicultural that is, eh!?) in place of the final precarious (to borrow a word) stage of the TdF?
-- TimC "Consider a spherical bear, in simple harmonic motion..." -- Professor in the UCB physics department
[censored] that as soon as it stops raining in London that the TdF sprints are taken off SBS in place of the far more interesting action packed game of cricket?
They were flogging the 'Hell on Wheels' DVD of the 2003 tour, when they could have been showing the 2005 tour LIVE in the last 10kms... that is nuts..
SBS is just dipping their fat fingers into 2 honeypots - as you say the cricket hardly fits with their advertised ideology! I am desperately trying to stay awake now to see the presentations for TDF by fiddling with my rear derailer - I nearly dozed off listening to 2 guys talk in monotone about how exciting the last delivery was - I think they meant that the way the guy chucked the ball looked good to them! Compared to the rest of the action, I am not surprised at their sudden "verbal erection"!
Just stuck a poll up on the SBS Cycling central forum, doubt it will stay up long as it calls them dishonest about their promised coverage and asks people to protest by not buying their highlights DVD.
Email SBS marketing, and CC each of the companies that are advertising within the ad breaks of the cricket, alerting them to the fact that you will be boycotting each of the named companies.
hmmmm....I don't think they'll care: SBS's ratings during Thursday night's cricket coverage were about FOUR TIMES normal!!! I think the advertiser will be asking: "more cricket, please?"
Just stuck a poll up on the SBS Cycling central forum, doubt it will stay up long as it calls them dishonest about their promised coverage and asks people to protest by not buying their highlights DVD.
On 2005-07-24, 531Aussie (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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TimC said:
Email SBS marketing, and CC each of the companies that are advertising within the ad breaks of the cricket, alerting them to the fact that you will be boycotting each of the named companies.hmmmm....I don't think they'll care: SBS's ratings during Thursday
night's cricket coverage were about FOUR TIMES normal!!! I think the advertiser will be asking: "more cricket, please?"
Pity SBS is now going for ratings on mediocre colonial games, instead of operating to its multicultural charter.
-- TimC Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
On 2005-07-24, 531Aussie (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Quoted message said:
TimC said:
Email SBS marketing, and CC each of the companies that are advertising within the ad breaks of the cricket, alerting them to the fact that you will be boycotting each of the named companies.hmmmm....I don't think they'll care: SBS's ratings during Thursday
night's cricket coverage were about FOUR TIMES normal!!! I think the advertiser will be asking: "more cricket, please?"
Pity SBS is now going for ratings on mediocre colonial games, instead of operating to its multicultural charter.
-- TimC Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
well I voted 'NO'
that is the 1 vote for NO so far..!! woo hoo, im a minority, I feel repressed
maybe we can invent a new sport, cricyling, all players on uni-cycles; including batsmen.
On 2005-07-24, 531Aussie (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Quoted message said:
TimC Wrote: > Email SBS marketing, and CC each of the companies that are
advertising
Quoted message said:
> within the ad breaks of the cricket, alerting them to the fact that > you will be boycotting each of the named companies.hmmmm....I don't
think they'll care: SBS's ratings during Thursday
Quoted message said:
night's cricket coverage were about FOUR TIMES normal!!! I think the advertiser will be asking: "more cricket, please?"
Pity SBS is now going for ratings on mediocre colonial games, instead of operating to its multicultural charter.
-- TimC Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
well I voted 'NO'
that is the 1 vote for NO so far..!! woo hoo, im a minority, I feel repressed
maybe we can invent a new sport, cricyling, all players on uni-cycles; including batsmen.
Fox Sports was showing the Ashes uninterrupted. They had an ad in the Australian, something like "The middle of the Ashes is no place for a bike race" with a cyclist crashing out where someone was batting. Stupid pic and ad but I couldn't help but agree, the bike race should definitely take priority. That being said, it's the BEST coverage of test cricket I've seen. So much less footage of ball-scratching and farting, but you still get to see the wickets being taken. Noice. I don't even like cricket.
That being said, it's the BEST coverage of test cricket I've seen. So much less footage of ball-scratching and farting, but you still get to see the wickets being taken. Noice. I don't even like cricket.
You have DEFINATELY been in QLD too long! :P
You should try somewhere with more bikes and less cricket..
I know some smart-e-pants will mention this so I'm going to spoil it for them first and say:
Yes, I know all about the Tokyo Shock Boys and I'm sure there's a mass of private video out there of people lighting their own farts. This does not happen so much in the test cricket I have seen..
