Category: Sport
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Sexism and Sky Sports
Tonight Richard Keys has resigned from Sky Sports following a last ditch attempt to apologise in the form of an interview on Talksport this afternoon (Kudos to Talksport for getting that interview). He joins Andy Gray who’s already gone. There are lots of interesting question raised in this affair. How sexist is the regime at…
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World Cup 2018 Redux
Broadcast magazine has a really interesting story relating to England’s failed bid for the 2018 World Cup. The story is here (behind a paywall). In summary, it seems that in its bid proposal, England agreed to remove the 2018 World Cup tournament from the Listed Events which would have effectively let companies like Sky and…
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Ashes Not To Be Listed
A Media Guardian report this morning suggests that the new Government is not going to add The Ashes to the sporting Listed Events, ignoring the recommendation that they should be included in David Davies’ report from last November. The Guardian report is headlined “Ashes to stay on Sky” which is only really true of the…
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World Cup Coverage in the Middle East
You may be sick of the World Cup now having seen today’s debacle. But I’m a bit confused about the coverage of the World Cup in the Middle East. From what I can gather, the rights to the whole Arab speaking region – with the exception of Israel of course – were sold to Al…
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Dropping The Ball
I know that a million and one other people have already talked about ITV’s nightmare last night (yes – I’m conveniently overlooking Robert Green’s one), but it really is worth saying a little more. ITV1’s HD channel managed to miss Gerard’s 4th minute goal by playing a sponsorship credit for Hyundai (not an advert), followed…
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Has The Mail on Sunday Lost England The World Cup?
It’s the question that isn’t really be asked – at least in the media. But did the Mail on Sunday’s scoop last weekend fatally damage England’s chances of hosting the World Cup in 2018? Lord Triesman’s words were certainly ill-advised, and, without any proof, completely unfounded. He was foolish to confide such beliefs with anyone…
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Should The Ashes Be Listed?
On Friday, a Department of Culture, Media & Sport consultation based around their Review of Listed Events closed. This consultation was based around some preliminary suggestions on the updating of the list of sporting (and other cultural) events for which either live free-to-air TV coverage, or recorded highlights should be made available. The big issue…
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Arsenal 5 – 0 FC Porto
I don’t often talk about football on the blog, but Arsenal’s 5-0 demolition of Porto last night is worthy of recording. The photo above shows Nicklas Bendtner finishing his hattrick from the penalty spot in the 90th minute. But goal of the night must go to Samir Nasri’s superb individual goal as he beat three…
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Vancouver A Sell Out?
According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I’m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women’s Ice Hockey last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don’;t just mean a couple of no-shows…
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Premier League Commentary
A good night last night at Arsenal watching them beat Liverpool. And the other results were excellent too. So I’m really excited that today, Absolute Radio (my employer), has announced that it has won rights to live commentaries from a 3pm Premier League fixtures for three years from next season. Read more at the One…
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US Sport v European Sport
I stayed up late last night to watch the Superbowl. I like American Football, and once you get over the inordinate number of breaks in play it’s a fine sport. I suggest that you either diligently us your PVR in live pause mode, or do as I did last night and decide that it was…
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ATP World Tour Finals
I was lucky enough to go to the evening sessions at the O2 of the ATP World Tour Finals in London earlier this week – attending on both Monday and Tuesday. Overall I had a great time – not exactly hindered by the fact that I had superb seats. While the upper level seats were…
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Five Live
On Monday there was a Radio Academy event in London with Matt Wells asking the questions of BBC Radio Five Live’s controller, Adrian van Klaveren. The obvious area for questioning surrounded Five Live’s forthcoming move to a new facility in Salford. As someone who listens to an awful lot of Five Live, I’m still unconvinced,…