World Open NOT live on Eurosport.......

Roy Steffensen

Roy Steffensen

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By looking on Eurosport's website you can't find any information about the upcoming IPT tournament, and on the tv-schedule there is only tennis, tennis and tennis.

I called the IPT, and they said that the Eurotour would be at the event recording the matches and broadcast them later, when the US Open Tennis was finished...

Still a good deal, but what happened to:

Eurosport and British Eurosport will show live, prime-time coverage of every round of all major IPT events in 2006.

“Eurosport is proud and excited to welcome the International Pool Tour to our line-up of prestigious, world-class sports and sporting events,’ said Arnaud Simon, Eurosport’s Head of Programs. “The IPT clearly is the leader in worldwide pool and we believe our commitment to air its major events live will generate a huge amount of interest in both the sport and its players all across Europe.”

http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/news/press_release33.asp

:( :( :( :( :(
 
Roy Steffensen said:
By looking on Eurosport's website you can't find any information about the upcoming IPT tournament, and on the tv-schedule there is only tennis, tennis and tennis.

I called the IPT, and they said that the Eurotour would be at the event recording the matches and broadcast them later, when the US Open Tennis was finished...

Still a good deal, but what happened to:

Eurosport and British Eurosport will show live, prime-time coverage of every round of all major IPT events in 2006.

“Eurosport is proud and excited to welcome the International Pool Tour to our line-up of prestigious, world-class sports and sporting events,’ said Arnaud Simon, Eurosport’s Head of Programs. “The IPT clearly is the leader in worldwide pool and we believe our commitment to air its major events live will generate a huge amount of interest in both the sport and its players all across Europe.”

http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/news/press_release33.asp

:( :( :( :( :(
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As is with EVERYTHING in the media, things are subject to change. I deal with them all the time in my profession, and the media, especially TV producers, sometimes postpone without even any notice whatsoever. :mad:

Eurosport places greater preference on tennis than pool this go-round, but at least they will be on site in Reno. You Europeans are the lucky ducks, though, in that you will get to see the matches long before us Americans. :o

BTW, Keith and I are going to Orange Ball tonight in Rockville, Maryland. If you talk to your friend, let him know the festivities begin at 8:00 p.m. sharp. We shouldn't be too hard to find! The tournament director's name is Cisco. He is also a young'n under the age of 18 and currently going to school! :p

JAM
 
I just checked Eurosport and Eurosport 2 programming, Roy is absolutely right, there will be no live broadcast as far as I can see now, all they air is the US Open tennis championships. This sucks bigtime, I have actually bought a harddisk recorder, so I could record the whole thing and have it as digital video instantly. Major bummer.

gr. Dave
 
Roy Steffensen said:
Eurosport and British Eurosport will show live, prime-time coverage of every round of all major IPT events in 2006.
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If you get a powerful enough microscope you will be able to see the words in between the 6 and the period.

"unless there is something on that we think will get us better ratings"

You need a pretty powerful microscope:D .
 
No live coverage

My guess, and I repeat, guess, is that viewership was a major disappointment to the network and the IPT is not willing to pay the price they want in order to provide live coverage. Certainly not a positive development. Does that sound like a reasonable possibility?
 
Eurosport are no good at updating their schedules. They always change them. Don't get your hopes up but i would put money on that they show at least SOME live coverage and lot's of non-live coverage.

One thing i know for certain is you should never trust eurosports schedules.
 
I don't think that we can infer anything from this. It would be a very BAD idea for Eurosport to cut down on their Tennis programming to show some pool. Tennis is much more popular and on top of that, this is a Grand Slam, the US Open. Here on Canada, it is essentially US Open all day every day, no hockey, basketball, football or Baseball. Just tennis.

Don't worry. The only problem is that the World Open just happened to be scheduled during the same week as the final stage of the US Open.
 
Cameron Smith said:
I don't think that we can infer anything from this. It would be a very BAD idea for Eurosport to cut down on their Tennis programming to show some pool. Tennis is much more popular and on top of that, this is a Grand Slam, the US Open. Here on Canada, it is essentially US Open all day every day, no hockey, basketball, football or Baseball. Just tennis.

Don't worry. The only problem is that the World Open just happened to be scheduled during the same week as the final stage of the US Open.
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Cameron,would agree with the general thrust of your opinion that the absence of live tv coverage does not in itself necessarily signal any major doom or despair for IPT.

However your suggested explanation that the sole reason for this is a simple case of a clash of schedule with US Open tennis doesn't really hold up under rational analysis. The timetables for US Open tennis matches and IPT World Open matches were cast in stone by the respective organisers and were known to Eurosport way way way long before Eurosport made their announcement that all rounds of all major IPT events were to be screened live. Advance information and planning as regards major sports events which clash with each other date-wise are basic everyday fundamentals for live sports broadcasting networks and the notion that they didn't realise this clash at the time they made their announcement is absurd.Furthermore Eurosport have more than one channel in which to screen simultaneous live events anyway.

Clearly therefore,SOMETHING has happened in the meantime in between that original announcement and now which has swayed Eurosport towards dropping their live IPT plans for this tournament.It could be any one of a number of reasons or a combination of several reasons and that is not for any of us to know for sure.However one thing that we certainly do know to have happened in the meantime was live screening of The NA Open and that in general the European viewing public were apathetic towards tuning into it and that a great many of those who did tune into it found the coverage and presentation extremely shoddy and of very poor quality in every respect (the tv coverage not the play).Another thing that we can reasonably deduce is that whatever the reasons for Eurosport to have reneged on their commitment it must surely have been a very significant reason because The IPT World Open is far and away the single biggest and richest pool tournament in history and if they were going to drop any one of the IPT events this one should surely have been the last choice:(

Before the usual blinkered diehards dive in,this is not an IPT "knocker" post nor am I in any way doom-mongering, just applying some logical thought to the subject of live tv coverage.We can all stick our head in the sand and pretend it hasn't really been cancelled if you like:rolleyes:
 
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memikey said:
However one thing that we certainly do know to have happened in the meantime was live screening of The NA Open and that in general the European viewing public were apathetic towards tuning into it and that a great many of those who did tune into it found the coverage and presentation extremely shoddy and of very poor quality in every respect (the tv coverage not the play).
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Really? I didn't hear about that, or at least I haven't been on the IPT section in a few weeks.

As long as the tournament gets full coverage within the next few weeks, I won't be too worried. The IPT is still young and going through some growing pains.

One thing that I saw which was encouraging was a couple of the qualifiers had sizable fields, which was a nice change the 5-10 man tournaments.
 
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