If you turn him down though, you lose the noise of the crowd, which really adds to the occasion in this case. I found him mixing up the names more funny than annoying. IMO nothing can detract from a classic match! Give the Guy on CAN TV some cred, it cannot be often that they have to comment on Badminton matches (if ever before), it is hard to be a commentator. TV is easier though, try doing radio commentary !
True, but did anyone see the game aired on CBC at 7:00am EST between Zhang Ning and Mia Audina? That was pretty bad commentating and they commentated like the viewers were utter newbs as though they've never seen badminton before (which is probably true ) Anyway, it's great TSN is FINALLY airing some badminton. But it sucks because I'm busy at ALL those times... Thursday is school (2:30 pm est) for me and if it's only a half hour, I won't make it in time to watch . The Saturday one is like in the middle of the day when I'm out playing badminton practicing for tourny and sunday... if that's REALLY 1:30 am... then I'm scared if it's 4:30 am EST lol.
yah, i watched (ZN vs MA), it was ~ 5am here. Volume was on but i didnt pay attention to the commentator, I can see what's going on. The big plus is when it's on cbc live, it was super clear compared to tapes and encoded disks, i can see the beads of their sweat.
I was watching it with Satellite TV on a 65" TV teehee. MA was pretty close in that game but at the end, ZN pulled away and made it look pretty easy. Too bad TSN is using the World Juniors only as fillers though =/ I hope in the future they might air it for longer than 1/2 hour.
For todays~~~ the show havent start yet due to the Tennis game~~~ I dunno what time is gonna start but i i noe it wont be 11;30
The Tennis Masters ended at noon so TSN skipped the badminton show. Now, it is showing Canadian Sportfishing: Bottom Bouncing for Walleye.
Man that's garbage... I came home early from school to catch these matches and you know what appears infront of me? TENNIS! sure tennis is not bad, but i really want to watch Badminton. Jeez we got shafted again....
I didn't have a chance to watch the finals so I hope they will show them on this Sat and Sun. I did watch the other live matches in Richmond.
And this kind of thing will continue happening unless we flood their email boxes everytime something like this happens. :crying:
TSN only showed the last few points of the last match instead of the full 3 matches. Tonight, they showed the man single and double. Other than the distracting and bad commentaries, it was quite good.
I could be wrong. Could it be that this is the only show? There is only one same show and not a series of different shows. They show it on different dates but it doesn't mean that we are going to see different shows. I mean they could have summarized the whole things into one show. (Just checked back from the Ontario badminton website) It looks like they are the same. The first scheduled time is Sunday, April 03 at 9:30am Pacific Time (this is the re-scheduled date from March 13th) Other broadcast dates (same half hour program) include:
http://www.tsn.ca/broadcast/Schedule.asp?Channel=TSN&ShowDate=Apr 16 2005&TZ=0 Lies! According to this site, It's on THIS SATURDAY which is..... Today, at 1:30am EASTERN
Email TSN !!!! EMAIL TSN!!! Let them know we're loving it!!! Even if it's only one line. Every little bit counts. http://www.tsn.ca/broadcast/email_form.asp?mailto=programming
Just sent my e-mail thanks to TSN. But, I don't think they check their e-mail. It is probably there just to show that they care about viewer opinions. (yeah, I am a skeptic).
SHOOT I got the date wrong!!! It saids saturday and before 12:00am today was saturday... But now it's sunday, now wonder it's not showing badminton! :crying::crying::crying:
