That's because Derek Rae and Andy Gray are doing the games at ESPN headquarters. They couldn't really comment on anything because they needed the feed too.

I thought ESPN handled it well for the most part. It's not everyday this happens.


The downside is that we were subjected to more Julie Foudy

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Originally posted by verndogs That's because Derek Rae and Andy Gray are doing the games at ESPN headquarters. They couldn't really comment on anything because they needed the feed too. I thought ESPN handled it well for the most part. It's not everyday this happens. The downside is that we were subjected to more Julie Foudy

lol yea when i saw her instead of the game i wanted to break my tv.

still they could of gotten a feed from somewhere else... anywhere...

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Originally posted by PatMcGroin lol yea when i saw her instead of the game i wanted to break my tv. still they could of gotten a feed from somewhere else... anywhere...

Aside from Swiss TV or Al-Jazeera (?!?!), everyone else in the world was affected.

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Originally posted by verndogs Aside from Swiss TV or Al-Jazeera (?!?!), everyone else in the world was affected.

Yeah. Lightning storms affected the global broadcast

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i know everyone was affected, but i still think espn did a shitty job keeping us updated on the score while this was going on.

TSN knew the score right away while waiting for the feed back to come back... i don't know where they got the score since the uefa website wasn't updated that fast.

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yeah...ESPN updated right away when they found out the score.

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were they ill-prepared? yeah. but no one expects this shit to happen all the time. i'd say they did pretty well on the fly - though obviously the product wasn't what people tuned in were looking for. can't blame them for the tech difficulties.

i think the biggest problem was that this is the semifinals of Euros - not some shitty US - Barbados qualifier or something like that. it goes to show how seriously ESPN takes their asso coverage. i bet if it was the playoffs in the NFL they'd turn their satellite around and align it with the stadium and zoom in and broadcast that... probably show off too "look we can zoom in on Tom Brady's nosehair from space!!"

Considering how awful ESPN's world cup coverage was in 2006, they've made huge strides and it has shown with their pretty impressive coverage of Euro 2008.














ok...that huge strides were hiring Andy Gray and pairing him with Derek Rae

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Originally posted by denys envy were they ill-prepared? yeah. but no one expects this shit to happen all the time. i'd say they did pretty well on the fly - though obviously the product wasn't what people tuned in were looking for. can't blame them for the tech difficulties. i think the biggest problem was that this is the semifinals of Euros - not some shitty US - Barbados qualifier or something like that. it goes to show how seriously ESPN takes their asso coverage. i bet if it was the playoffs in the NFL they'd turn their satellite around and align it with the stadium and zoom in and broadcast that... probably show off too "look we can zoom in on Tom Brady's nosehair from space!!"

They're sort of limited by the number of TV antennae the host country has that can broadcast to another country. Of course if it was in the US it would be a different story

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Vienna suffered from major thunderstoms last night, hence the broadcast collapse (due to UEFA license, the EURO broadcast must come exlusively from the Vienna headquarter).

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