UK coverage of world cup

All the world cup games are shared between BBC and ITV.

What a massive difference in quality.

The BBC website is flawless.

The ITV website cannot cope and every so often it pauses with circles to update.

On the BBC site, you can rewind up to 2 hours but no rewind on ITV site (you can on android app but very clunky and you are luck if you are +/- 5 minutes of where you want to be.

As for the adverts at half time - what a joke.

The commentators on BBC are quality commentators, whereas the ITV commentators are B list.

At the risk of being considered sexist , I find the ITV female commentators to be very poor without any real insight, but my main hate is majority all wave their hands like windmills which is very distracting. Whoever told people waving hands incessantly is good presenting. A hand should be waved for emphasis. In truth, ITV have female commentators to "tick a box", not because of quality.

To be fair to BBC, their females are far superior (as are the males).

I know we often whinge about the BBC licence fee, but it is at times like the world cup, you realise how superior the BBC is.

cereberus said:

All the world cup games are shared between BBC and ITV.

What a massive difference in quality.

The BBC website is flawless.

The ITV website cannot cope and every so often it pauses with circles to update.

On the BBC site, you can rewind up to 2 hours but no rewind on ITV site (you can on android app but very clunky and you are luck if you are +/- 5 minutes of where you want to be.

As for the adverts at half time - what a joke.

The commentators on BBC are quality commentators, whereas the ITV commentators are B list.

At the risk of being considered sexist , I find the ITV female commentators to be very poor without any real insight, but my main hate is majority all wave their hands like windmills which is very distracting. Whoever told people waving hands incessantly is good presenting. A hand should be waved for emphasis. In truth, ITV have female commentators to "tick a box", not because of quality.

To be fair to BBC, their females are far superior (as are the males).

I know we often whinge about the BBC licence fee, but it is at times like the world cup, you realise how superior the BBC is.

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Hi there

I agree on the whole but they seem to be concentrating on Women´s referees, LGBT issues and a load of other things that really belong whatever their intrinsic merits on other platforms. However once the games start the BBC coverage, and commentators are IMO 100% great.

However the camerawork etc of the BBC IMO can´t be equalled by loads of the other countries.

I loved this Nederland / Dutch goal (against the USA whatever they call the country (NL not the USA) these days). Commentary was also brilliant too.

Americans aren't used to losing so I enjoyed a bit of "Schadenfreude" here too !!! --Maybe NL having been to the final so many times might actually win it this time.



UK might have loads of problems currently but the BBC is still a great world wide trusted brand even if it has some domestic problems currently. Please Brits don't kill it -- just sort it out. !!"! It's probably the best UK brand world wide - and the UK needs every help it can get currently.

I'll be screaming for England on Sunday. "Apologies to Scots fans". At least England won't lose to Germany this time on penalties !!!!

Cheers
jimbo