ESPN coverage of 2007 Bassmaster Classic

[DJ]

ESPN gets a big fat "F" for their broadcasting of this years Classic. All ESPN (Direct TV ch 209) showed was coverage from the previous day. VERY little actual up to date footage. Alot of good their 13 camera boats and helicopter did we when 90% of what I saw was old news. Next year give to FOX....they know what "live coverage" means.

An angry viewer.

[Tim_T]

tape delayed coverage *****, but it is on tonight at 10. BTW, ESPN owns B.A.S.S. so I doubt it is moving to FOX.

[Rangerman]

Pitiful & pathetic!!!!!! What makes it worse is they show they same old stuff they had already shown in a previous airing and then just throw in a couple new clips, the rest is a replay. I don't want to watch an entire episode over and over with them adding only a clip here and there to find out what is going on at the classic.

[mattplapp]

ESPN signed Nascar this year and BASS went on the back burner. I would not be surprised to see BASS sold in the next 2 years.

Matt

[MarkW]

ESPN signed Nascar this year and BASS went on the back burner. I would not be surprised to see BASS sold in the next 2 years.

Matt

I agree with Matt> I think you and talked about that a few months back. Sad to say but ESPN could care less about BASS and it's TV coverage. It showed this year for sure. Very disappointing to say the least.

[DJD]

The one thing that made me think what the....? Was the coverage of Hurricane Katrina again. I know i have read and seen that clip of Hackney before lets move on!!!

[jmwldcat]

ESPN gets a big fat "F" for their broadcasting of this years Classic. All ESPN (Direct TV ch 209) showed was coverage from the previous day. VERY little actual up to date footage. Alot of good their 13 camera boats and helicopter did we when 90% of what I saw was old news. Next year give to FOX....they know what "live coverage" means.

An angry viewer.

one word *****

[buckdroppings]

Not only was the coverage on tv bad but I could hardly find anything on the net about it either. Thanks to bassfan I was at least able to find out some info.

A couple of years ago on the Ohio I thought it was overkill big time but this year it was almost nonexistant. I wish they would get thier crap together.

[mattplapp]

I thought the online coverage was pretty good. You could watch it live on Bassmaster.com.

I was really dissapointed to see them re-hash segments they filmed over a year ago, and then replay the same 3-4 minute clips each day about the weather conditions and Icanelli. My background before boats was in Television production with the local stations in Cincinnati, and you don't replay segments like that more than once, it's a big no-no. It tells me that ESPN is cutting budgets big time and trying not to produce anything original.

Matt

[jigfan]

I think ESPN bought BASS so they could control how big they got. I say they are going to do the samething with Nascar. Although Nascar may be to big for them to downsize. They didn't have a clip off the Jr. Championship, Casting Kids and just a little of the WBT. all they could show was the G man running past Howell. The web coverage was terrible too.

[4given]

F is too high.

[roberte68]

What about the prize money, maybe it is just me but to go from a half mill for first place to, 45k for second? That doesn't seem right, but I guess it sounds good for television.