Transmission of races on tv in various countries

citadina · Dec 4, 2007

Hello all would like to pose a question. I have seen motogp races on eurosport (british) eurosport (Portugal) and a spanish canel (sorry don´t know what it was, I was in the Algarve and the tv wasn´t mine

). In each case the image seems to be different, showing more on bike shots with some riders over other, showing one rider taking a turn but not the next, that sort of thing. I already asked on another thread and got two diferent answers (one yes they are diferent, and one no they are not). I hoping to start a talk about this as I am very curious as to how commenting, viewing, camera choices, etc. vary from country to country.

Cheers,

xx CURVE xx · Dec 4, 2007

The U.S. coverage sucks donkey ........

I pay for the live feed from MotoGPdotcom...I have yet to find a way to get the Eurosports Channel here in the States...

Tom · Dec 4, 2007

Well i was under the impession there was a single TV feed that went out live, but i am not sure if there can be different editing stations based on nationality. Of course if you are talking about footage that is not live, it will almost certainly be edited differently to hightlight different aspects.

Bikergirl · Dec 4, 2007

As far as I know the actual footage that goes out live during the race comes from a Dorna feed, and hence is the same for all. At least the Italian channel I watch on, the live motogp one and the eurosport one, which I've managed to watch simultaneously for comparison purposes were identical as far as I could make out, barring the delay in the case of the motogp.com online feed. But I could be wrong. THe commentary obviously varies between sources as national channels obviously will concentrate more on their own riders etc. I don't know about replays (as in replaying a particular overtaking etc).

BarryMachine · Dec 4, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(xx CURVE xx @ Dec 5 2007, 02:25 AM) [snapback]103333[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
The U.S. coverage sucks donkey ........

Well most of our shows we get here are old US shows ..... so I guess we get to suck it when they are done with it. ..... oh wait thats for non-motogp stuff

Ok ..... Free to air here ...... not a bad presentation local commentators ( one of whom was Barry Sheen for many a year ) and it is edited to show mainly Aust. guys. Even the races appear in the wrong order, ie. motogp, 250 then 125. Though when Casey won any races in the lower classes they came on first. The whole presentation is done usually with a bit of a delay, but they make as if its live but you can tell when one of the Aussies in doing ok ..... Daryl Beatty would be a terrible poker player

.

Pay TV here ..... just a live feed I believe??

drumfu · Dec 4, 2007

it's all the same video feed straight from the track and produced by dorna.

everybody who buys rights gets a video and audio feed (along with realtime stats not visible to viewer much like baseball, football, etc.)

whatever network in whatever country wants to buy rights to the feed then has to provide their own commentary (i assume that for a higher price, dorna will let you have gag their commentators)

bottom line, the video you see in any country on any channel is identical to every other one.

take a moment to ponder how impossible it would be if everybody who wanted to film the race brought their own cameras to place around the track, their own production facilities, their own uplinks, etc. etc. etc. it would be absolute madness.

citadina · Dec 4, 2007

The live feed thing makes perfect sense, it was just so weird to see such a different race on the spanish canel, put then again there is no way I can say for sure that it was live coverage.

I just thought that maybe, if the station was willing to shell out the cash, the commentatores in the boxes could chose which images to transmite (have all the cameras on little monitores then chose the ones they want to transmit). This would make for viewing of a very diferent race for each commentator.

But hey as a friend keeps telling me.....para de viagar na maionese! (stop voyaging in the mayo!)

teomolca · Dec 4, 2007

The race feed is the same for everyone. The only difference between the Eurosport and TVE (the Spanish channel you were watching) feeds is that they have a pit lane crew that makes interviews and such on their own and that is not Dorna's feed just TVE. Eurosport has Mamola and TVE has Nieto and 2 chicks who obviously were chosen by their bike knowledge.

Marijke · Dec 4, 2007

we actually have 2 dutch channels who broadcast it. one is eurosport with dutch commentators, and we get the same specials with mamola, only during those some dutch guy is babbling through the entire special to translate it all

so we always switch languages on eurosport to english instead of dutch. the other channel is rtl7, who has their own camera's in the pits sometimes, and they have Jurgen vd Goorbergh who give comments afterwards about the race which is always nice to hear. and sometimes ned2 broadcasts it too, they always show the dutch TT with some awsome specials about racing

and we can watch the bbc too ofcourse

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Teomolca @ Dec 4 2007, 08:04 PM) [snapback]103380[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Eurosport has Mamola and TVE has Nieto and 2 chicks who obviously were chosen by their bike knowledge.

citadina · Dec 4, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Teomolca @ Dec 4 2007, 07:04 PM) [snapback]103380[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
The race feed is the same for everyone. The only difference between the Eurosport and TVE (the Spanish channel you were watching) feeds is that they have a pit lane crew that makes interviews and such on their own and that is not Dorna's feed just TVE. Eurosport has Mamola and TVE has Nieto and 2 chicks who obviously were chosen by their bike knowledge.

Thanks for that info, it really was killing me not to know which channel I was talking about

. Is TVE the only spanish channel that has gp?

P.s. Thanks also for correcting (by example

) my spelling of ´channel´.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marijke @ Dec 4 2007, 07:23 PM) [snapback]103385[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
we actually have 2 dutch channels who broadcast it. one is eurosport with dutch commentators, and we get the same specials with mamola, only during those some dutch guy is babbling through the entire special to translate it all

so we always switch languages on eurosport to english instead of dutch. the other channel is rtl7, who has their own camera's in the pits sometimes, and they have Jurgen vd Goorbergh who give comments afterwards about the race which is always nice to hear. and sometimes ned2 broadcasts it too, they always show the dutch TT with some awsome specials about racing

and we can watch the bbc too ofcourse

I know! That voice over stuff drives me CRAZY

! I hate it! Can´t focus on Portuguese and can´t hear the english!

frizzle · Dec 4, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BarryMachine @ Dec 5 2007, 02:42 AM) [snapback]103338[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Well most of our shows we get here are old US shows ..... so I guess we get to suck it when they are done with it. ..... oh wait thats for non-motogp stuff

Ok ..... Free to air here ...... not a bad presentation local commentators ( one of whom was Barry Sheen for many a year ) and it is edited to show mainly Aust. guys. Even the races appear in the wrong order, ie. motogp, 250 then 125. Though when Casey won any races in the lower classes they came on first. The whole presentation is done usually with a bit of a delay, but they make as if its live but you can tell when one of the Aussies in doing ok ..... Daryl Beatty would be a terrible poker player

.
Pay TV here ..... just a live feed I believe??

Foxsports has all classes live and use the Dorna commentators.
Screening is presented by one of 2 foxsports regulars and Kevin Magee.

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