Channel Seven sucking is nothing new. Their incredibly shit coverage of the Olympics is surely beyond compare when it comes to suckfulness. Still, I believe they've reached new heights with their latest effort. Get this:
The Australian Open men's quarter-final between Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco is in progress. It's a good match, not a wipe-out, it's going to go to at least four sets, with Tsonga having won one and Verdasco two (at the time of writing this post). At the end of the third set, at 5:30pm, Channel fucking Seven cuts its coverage of the Australian Open men's tennis quarter final for... Deal or fucking No Deal. Un-fucking-believeable. Followed by their crappy turn-your-brain-to-mush 'news' and Home and-a-fucking-Way. The fucking cheek of it. It's a once-a-year event, the marquee event for Australian tennis, our only Grand Slam, and they fucking cut from the quarter final to show Deal or No Deal. Pricks.
Channel Seven don't deserve the tennis. The ATP (if they aren't money-grubbing whores and actually take the sport seriously) should give the coverage to SBS or the ABC to maintain the integrity of the event. Deal or No Deal takes precedence over the men's quarter final at Channel Seven, for fuck's sake. It's bad enough that half the time I can look up the scores from the night matches on the Australian Open website on Google and find out the result of a match that is still being played on Channel Seven because they've delayed the screening so they can show Home and Away. Cutting away from a great match half way through, however, is an even worse insult to viewers and the game.
4 comments:
Go easy on Channel 7. they had a great psychic making predictions for 2009 on Today Tonight the other day. What a superb current affairs show that is.
I'm glad we aren't the only tennis tragics! I was stoked with the feds/berdych match when they only cut to the news and then straight back again. It was a tense half hour listening to streamed BBC radio coverage though!
I see your news team wear the 70s porn star collection, complete with the John Holmes collectible mustaches
What makes it even more galling is that today, while Seven was delaying the fantastic Verdasco/Nadal semi-final for Home and Away, Channel Nine had already delayed/cancelled A Current Affair in order to show the cricket. The bloody, ubiquitous cricket. Why can't Channel Seven show the same respect for the tennis? It sucks to know the outcome of the match (from Google and from the news breaks on other channels) while Seven is still a full set behind, pretending the match is still going on...
Mike- the one on the left we refer to as 'Saddam'.
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