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Originally posted by jon bbc, because they exist only to please the people who pay the tv license money, i.e the public ITV are there to not please the viewer, but to please the shareholder, look at the grand prix, a "live" sporting event with advert breaks in... now how can that be live coverage if i miss 10 mins worth because of adverts.

ITV are over a barrel. the public pay the BBC for programs, we dont pay ITV, so ITV have to find another source, which is advertising.

apart from euro 2004, the actual standard of non-sport related programs is 10x better than the BBC. i often find myself watching decent programs on ITV, i cant remember the last non-sport decent program i watched on the BBC. infact, the only one i can remember is top gear, and thats this year.

for funded programs, the BBC is very poor at the moment, where ITV have had some cracking shit on.

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Originally posted by Coup for funded programs, the BBC is very poor at the moment, where ITV have had some cracking shit on.

Like corrie

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Originally posted by sykadelik Like corrie

corrie and emmerdale are better than eastenders and blue peter.

i was thinking all the "x from hell" programs, hells kitchen (mint), and the bill to name three from the top of my head.

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Originally posted by TiestoFanMatt > Jonny Motson is a great commentator! > Ian wright just talks like a true english fan, and when we score thats what he does, as shown in todays game (england vs croatia) where he was jumping around.

John Motson doesn't have a clue, anyone who talks about Wayne Rooney in the same breath as Pele is obviously deluded..

Ian Wright is a prat, who put this idiot on National TV, he can barely string a sentence 2gether, mayb u dont seem to realise these commentators and pundits r supposed to b impartial

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Originally posted by jon ITV are there to not please the viewer, but to please the shareholder, look at the grand prix, a "live" sporting event with advert breaks in... now how can that be live coverage if i miss 10 mins worth because of adverts.

See if there's any tapes laying round of BBC's F1 coverage and watch one...the ITV coverage may have adverts but be honest, do you really miss anything major? They put them on hold if anything exciting's going on. Apart from that their coverage is outstanding. The things we take for granted now like walks down the pit lane, behind the scene filming with the teams, live feeds to the pit wall during races, studio chat after the race, not to mention the legend that is Martin Brundle

Commercial networks have a much larger need to please the public than the BBC do. Advertisers look at viewing figures and the networks have to do pretty much whatever it takes to get people watching their station. BBC on the other hand are funded by the public and are therefore required to schedule programming in particular ways, as well as showing programming that appeals to minorities (by which I mean small groups of viewers, not black people ). This is why you don't get programs about the mating habits of the common daisy on ITV, there's no point showing them because n ****** watches them.

Anyway in summery, I have no opinion on this topic as I have no interest in football and have only watched one match (yet still I find myself in the top 10 of the TA fantasy football league )

BBC all the way adverts suck ass!!!

Thank god we dont live in america with their 5 hours of adverts every 3 seconds!!

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Originally posted by gatecrasher John Motson doesn't have a clue, anyone who talks about Wayne Rooney in the same breath as Pele is obviously deluded..

werd. i have 10 quality john motson quotes which im going to create a new thread to alert people to the actual stupidity of this man.

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Originally posted by Coup werd. i have 10 quality john motson quotes which im going to create a new thread to alert people to the actual stupidity of this man.

Last nite he said 'and there's Sol Campbell goin in with the tackle' when in fact it was Darius Vassell, how does he not know the difference, the tackle was at Croatia's penatly box when it had just been hoofed up by an England defender, wot did he think Campbell had started playin upfront or sumfing

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Eurosport (who only are allowed to show games on bbc, itv won't allow them to show 'their' picks) simply cos it fits on my 16:9 screen and bbc/itv have those annoying coloured bars on half the screen, really hard to watch, fuckin gimps

It’s all about the BBC - granted I don’t know enough about football commentary to give a fair judgement, but the BBC is one of the great things about our country and it pisses all over all the other channels with it’s ad free state TV goodness.

BBC by far, even the mere fact they dnt use ads is superb.

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Gah fuck the BBC. They don't avoid adverts out of the goodness of their hearts ffs, they have no need to advertise. Because we're legally required to subscribe to their service at £120 a year. How can this be the best thing about our country?

It's a fucking wank system, and the programs are shit too.

Grr.