I do not quite understand the point about Button. He finished safely in third, which was the best he was going to do in the company.
Were you referring to my comment about being non-existent? Maybe I could have worded it better.
I was referring not to Button himself, but to total lack of any interview with him (in the context of poor service to UK television viewers).
Oz (as was)
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It was the most ill-judged break in transmission since Graham Gooch scored ( and we missed ) his 333 at Lords in what was arguably the best finish in a F1 race since Senna and Mansell at Monaco in 1992.
ITV hang your heads in shame.
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ITV hang your heads in shame.
Knowing ITV's sense of shame, they will ask 'did we really upset you?' Phone 0906 ...........
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Sorry, Oz. I take your point entirely, but see the first posting again.
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ITV should not be allowed near sport. The first ever 147 break in a televised snooker tournament was in a match covered by this channel. While John Spencer was at the table making history, the ITV film crew were on a tea break, having insisted on sticking to their union rules.
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One point is bugging me though, why was Schumacher in F1 terms plodding along then all of a sudden it seems he had switched to nitrous oxide and blowing everyone else away?
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He was stuck behind his brother Ralph.
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Sorry, Oz. I take your point entirely, but see the first posting again.
Well put it like this, Button and Alonso were on very similar lap times. Alonso kept Schumacher behind for 12-13 laps, Button managed 2.
Had button kept Schumacher behind till the pit stops, there is a chance he could have kept his place and Alonso comfortable. As it was one roar and a show of teeth and the animal leapt from its cage past the frightened keeper who left the door open.
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ITV have messed up on ad breaks before. In Hungary in 1997 when Hill in his Arrows was just about to overtake Schumacher for the lead.
I have by own way of boycotting the advertisers - I record the races, watch immediately they are over, fast forward through the ads and don't even watch them so I have no idea what was being advertised.
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They also missed the vital pitstop today, when Schumy nearly got Alonso. Well timed again!
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They also missed the vital pitstop today, when Schumy nearly got Alonso. Well timed again!
That's not ITV's fault, it's up to the TV director at the event. In this case he was probably Italian. They change every race, hence some are good and some will cover up the red light sequence with the lap counter and miss everything.
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That's not ITV's fault, it's up to the TV director at the event.
well yes the local controller controls the pictures that everyone see's via the offical FIA downloads but ITV only is in control of it's timing of advert breaks and should be held responsible. A thoroughly shocking piece of tv editing, will be talked about for many years.
As i've posted before probably one of the finest climaxs to a race in many years then all we see is tacky (calm down dear it's only a mouse!) adverts.
This proves that ITV is only interested in advert revenue.
An utter disgrace.
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You're right Imagos, I sometimes watch the races at a relatives house, who has a satellite that can pick up Rai (italian TV) and their ads are always different to ITVs (we flick over during the ITV ad breaks)
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Today's Times says the ITV switchboard was inundated with calls about the adverts. They defend it by saying they are contracted to show 5 sets of ads during a race, and had held off showing the last set because they thought Schumacher might overtake Alonso, but then had to make a decision to squeeze them in.
Neil Duncanson, Executive Producer, said "We are as disappointed as anyone, but it is a contract"
IMO they could return after the ads and resumed the recording from the point they left off: that would have been some small mitigation, but would still have interrupted the best F1 racing for some time... although it wouldn't have been quite as "live", so maybe that's a problem too.
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Yup
they could have said, ok fine we need to add break, so we will timeshift the whole GP back by three minutes. Thats fine by me - gives you a chance to kill the live timing on the PC or turn off the radio.
Buttons post race interveiw go tthe chop so they could keep the TV schedules in tact to the second. So that shows what they think of F1 fans!
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They defend it by saying they are contracted to show 5 sets of ads during a race....
ITV have got their priorities are all wrong. I only got around to watching the pre-race build up last night on video (the one hour show before the actual race) and there were only 2 advert breaks during that hour. The first one didn't occur until around 12:37 BST (some 37 mins into the show), followed by the next one at around 12:50 BST.
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