jakebigham
I must admit that sometimes Al Trautwig (is that his name?) gets to
me. Though, I do love hearing Phil, Paul, and Bob!
On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Leibowitz, Flo wrote:
> Did you folks with the Dish know that the French channel, tv5, is
> showing the Tour daily? They even show it several times a day, and
> en direct (live) early in the morning.
>
> Even if you don't have a lot of French, it's interesting to watch
> because they don't break it up with commercials every 10 minutes.
> In fact, they don't cut for commericials at all ! So you see a
> whole lot more footage from every stage. What I notice is that you
> get to see more of the earlier action and what leads up to it. So,
> yeah, you see early breaks that might not make, but it's neat to
> see how they get set up and what sorts of opportunities they make
> use of. If you speak French, there is the bonus of Laurent Jalabert
> doing commentary from the back of one of the motorcycles and
> Laurent Fignon as one of the main commentators. But, with all due
> respect to how much these guys know (and they do), the commentary
> has not been more informative...I don't think...than what you get
> from Phil and Paul et al. Even allowing for the national bias;
> yeah, they raved a few minutes longer about Jimmy Casper winning
> the sprint yesterday but even they cut to Hushovd's injury.
>
> The visual feed for OLN and tv5 seems to be identical; I guess they
> both get what the Tour (or Eurosport?) sends out. The differennce
> seems to be in how much is edited out for commercials and how they
> edit the commentators in.
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