150th Open Championship on the BBC
July 12, 2010 · 1 Comments
The BBC have announced plans for their live and exclusive coverage of the 150th anniversary of the The Open Championship from St Andrews. The event commences on Thursday, July 15 and for the first time will be available in high definition.
Hazel Irvine will be on presenting duty, with expert commentary from Peter Allis, Ken Brown, Sam Torrance, Mark James, Wayne Grady and Andrew Cotter. Jean Van de Velde joins the on-course team consisting of Maureen Madill and Philip Parkin with reporters Dan Walker, Shane O’Donaghue and Russell Fuller.
BBC coverage begins on Wednesday, July 14 at 7pm on BBC Two, with a one-hour highlights programme of The Open Champions Challenge.
This special event celebrates the 150th anniversary of The Open and will feature legendary past winners including Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods and Lee Trevino. Coverage of The Champions Challenge is also available on the Red Button from 3.30–6pm.
The BBC will screen over 40 hours during the four-day competition on BBC One, BBC Two and the BBC HD Channel, starting at 9am on Thursday, July 15.
BBC Sport Online will also carry live streaming of the network feed (UK users only), along with rolling highlights, live leaderboard, live text commentary and video clips of the best bits of action.
There will be blogs and tweets from web, TV & radio reporters, all the latest reports and photos with opportunities to interact.
BBC Red Button will broadcast complimentary coverage on each day of The Open. Freeview viewers will be able to access live video with leaderboard, satellite and cable viewers will also be able to select a three-hole option where you can see play through the 9th, 10th and 11th holes only along with a daily 30-minute highlights package and live play outside of network coverage at the weekend. All live coverage will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
Tags: BBC, BBC HD, Hazel Irvine, Peter Allis, The Open Championship
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BBC coverage of the 2010 Open Championship:
1) Biased
2) Boring
3) Technologically lacking
4) A collection of the poorest informed on camera “talent” imaginable.
Philip Parkin cannot even pronounce players names.
How many shots of players walking instead of playing is acceptable?
What relevance do the poet laureate of New Zealand and authors of non-golf related books have to the Open Championships broadcasts?
Shots or shown in replay with no relevant commentary or acknowledgment whatsoever.
The anti Non-European bias of the on camera “talent” is blatant.
It might be helpful to inform the “talent” that television unlike radio has accompanying images which can contradict personal interpretations of play which was acceptable on radio when viewers/listeners had no option to disagree with inaccurate commentary.
All in all better to view online coverage from anywhere else in the world even when the languages are incomprehensible than listen to this drivel from the home of golf!