Sunday, February 06, 2011

Watching cricket with Channel Nine

This is probably the worst experience of your life.
It is however a good advertising opportunity. As this is an ODI, each side will play 50 overs (as long as they do not lose all their wickets) and Nine show adverts between each over. So that means that you may see the same advert 100 times during the match. If you think that is irritating, then it gets worse as you will not see all of the match as they switch to the news three overs before the end of the first innings. Add to this adverts during the overs, interviews off pitch during the overs, endless replays during the overs none of which indicate that they are replays and you get the feel for just how bad it is. I am sure that they must have employed an expert on how to totally destroy any sense of enjoyment when watching cricket. Thank goodness I will see some proper cricket coverage when I go back to the UK for summer.

Peewit

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