Why lure people into watching a match...and then cut away before it ends???
I surf the dials while having lunch, and see that CBS has the Sony Championship Finals from Miami, Andy Murray vs David Ferrer. Third set. The announcer tells me Ferrer is ready to become "the first Spaniard" (let's have happy racial profiling) to win. Soon he's just two points away. Now "championship" point. But…Murray battles back to deuce, wins the game, and forces a sudden-death tie-breaker.
Wow. What luck. I've got myself an exciting game to watch! Except…
"We will now be cutting away from Florida, for coverage of the NCAA basketball game scheduled next." It's what, 2:15. What the FUCK are you cutting away for? How long is a tie-breaker, five minutes?
"You can see the end of the match on the Tennis channel."
The what? Where the FUCK is the tennis channel? You CBS assholes are directing me to CABLE? What the FUCK makes you think I have CABLE? Or if I did, that I'd pay insane fees to get EVERY channel? And what if my provider doesn't happen to have THIS channel?
Ah. Let's go...find an illegal Internet stream!
I manage to get one in time, and watch Andy blast Ferrer away.
Guess what was going on at CBS? Not a FUCKING thing. The basketball game hadn't even started! The babbling CBS morons were still doing a warm-up, yapping about who the star players were, because nobody knows! Nobody watches college basketball until the over-hyped "March Madness" begins...and dozens of teams start competing to reach the finals. Of which this was NOT.
Why anyone cares about college basketball is beyond me. Most of the monkeys in this country never went to college. What are they rooting for? The gaudiest underwear these orangutans put on? Or is it because the orangutans are playing in the same city or state as the monkey-moron viewing?
Day-tripper CBS screwed and abandoned thousands of viewers who didn't have "the tennis channel" and were left wondering why they spent hours watching a match only to be denied the five minutes of a tie-breaker. By the time Murray was taking his bows, the orangutans had finally gotten on the court for the tip-off. You see it in the picture above.
CBS could've easily showed the tie-breaker. There's such a thing as TAPE. CBS could've said, "We'll show you the tie-breaker in-between the time-outs and boring shit in the first five minutes of the basketball game." Or: "We're showing the tie-breaker, but we'll also show highlights of every show-off basket in the first pointless minutes you missed, so go get a beer or watch the end of the tennis match, and try not to be upset that your latent-homo lust for watching overgrown orangutans in their underwear is being delayed.
Why is it that entertainment has to be a disappointment? Why is something as fucking SIMPLE as WATCHING TV now prone to be an insulting, aggravating experience?? Fortunately in this case, there was an alternative. So...
FUCK YOU, day-tripper CBS, and THANK YOU, Illegal Internet Streaming!
ITV are notorious for screwing up like this... having commercials over-run so the first minute or two of a game gets missed which is unfortunate on those odd occasions when a goal gets scored. Having said that, if it's football, then ITV give it at least 3 hours of coverage including an after game show of "analysis" so if the match goes into extra time, they've covered their asses.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC on the other hand can and will let the whole thing play unimpeded - they simply cancel the following show if it goes into overtime since to them its important to show every second of the games.