[Ducati] CBS Coverage- Today's MotoGP Race

[Mark Hatten]

My favorite was when Valentino Rossi crashed, with the camera cutting to him 
trying to pick his bike up out of the gravel.  The implications were huge: 
the sport's greatest rider's 2007 title hopes quite likely dashed; Casey 
Stoner's title hopes getting a huge boost; and Dani Pedrosa suddenly back in 
the hunt, you would have thought you were watching CBS golf coverage and 
some no-name journeyman just hit it into the bunker.  "Ooooh, and Valentino 
Rossi just found the sand outside Turn Five," he whispered in hushed tones.

I enjoy Schwantz's color commentary and the knowledge and experience he 
brings to the broadcast.  The problem is, Schwantz is a fairly low-key guy 
(most world champs are not exactly very "excitable" by nature), and Medder's 
really does sound like he's announcing golf.  It's okay to have a low-key 
play-by-play guy if the color guy is a "big" personality (think Pat 
Summerall and John Madden in football), but when both are flat and monotone, 
it really does suck the life out of the broadcast.  I can get a bit weary of 
Harris' and the WSBK guy's incessant screaming (can *everyone* really be a 
"demon on the brakes"?), but there's gotta be a happy medium.

On the plus side, the CBS broadcast is reaching millions of US viewers who 
would never watch MotoGP on Speed, or who do not get Speed.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "fred lindstrom" <flindstrom at earthlink.net>
To: "'Ducati Owners Group'" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Ducati] CBS Coverage- Today's MotoGP Race


> Nope...it's the same feed that's broadcast on Speed. I don't know that the
> 'coverage' that's broadcast on Speed....has anything to do with Speed, 
> other
> than their purchase of the package from Dorna. In F1, the Speed announcers
> are Varsha, Hobbs, Matchett and Windsor. When they get broadcast on 
> network
> tv, Fox, they contract the same announcers. With MotoGp, Nick Harris and
> crew are part of the Dorna broadcast...and don't work for Speed. I 
> hesitate
> to even comment on yesterday's coverage not really wanting to say anything
> negative....but again, I thought it was really poor. Schwantz is clearly
> knowledgable....and may even be more interesting and animated if he had a
> pro's lead to follow. That Medders guy clearly doesn't understand the 
> series
> and has zero passion. He consistently states the painfully obvious, 
> 'there's
> racer A following racer B', 'oh look, there's racer C'. it's a snore.
>
> cheers,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On 
> Behalf
> Of Garth Williams
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:32 AM
> To: Ducati Owners Group
> Subject: Re: [Ducati] CBS Coverage- Today's MotoGP Race
>
> Hmmm, I don't think CBS has any control over the feed- that's MotoGP.  My
> comment wasn't that the coverage wasn't terrible, it was that it was an
> improvement from the last race they did.  It shows they at least have the
> capacity to improve.
>
> Is it Speed TV's coverage?  No.  And it's certainly not like anything
> available in Europe.  But that wasn't my point.
>
>
> Garth
>
> On 7/16/07, Bill Young <byoung93888 at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I appreciate being able to see the race CBS' coverage is terrible.
>> If
>> you don't want to watch Colin and Nickey for the whole race (even if they
>> are tooling around in the back) don't watch CBS' coverage.
>> Bill
>>
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