FS1 coverage of Big East Womens Tournament

[rt bb fan]

I just wrote an email to FS1 about there coverage of the Big East Tournament. Poor camera angles. No discussion or analysis of the two teams playing at half time.

 

[Kaizen]

I saw the score first then the video ...not a good job.

 

[Centerstream]

I actually muted most of the second half of tonight's game because during the first 5 (live) minutes of the 3rd quarter, there was no mention of what was going on play wise. NONE!

 

[ucbart]

Fox has been given the goose the lays the Golden egg with women’s hoops and they’ve done a pathetic job.

It’s so strange, because their women’s soccer coverage is the absolute best.

 

[chrissaran]

Would you ever see at the halftime of a men's game, the announcers discussing the women's tournament?

 

[nutmegger]

Would you ever see at the halftime of a men's game, the announcers discussing the women's tournament?

Depends on how bad the men's teams are.

 

[#12in21]

Would you ever see at the halftime of a men's game, the announcers discussing the women's tournament?

My thought exactly and I tweeted as much to FS1 at the time.

 

[hart2hart]

ESPN Way better than Fox, just saying.

 

[dtbtbtb]

FS1 seems 2nd rate compared to ESPN. They seem to not know with this product...

 

[JordyG]

It just seems that FS1 is completely unaware that the viewers are actually there to watch a women's basketball game. The idea that these viewers may actually be more interested in commentary or anything in depth about women's BB rather than men's BB seems beyond their comprehension. They'll take the viewership and the commercial money but otherwise they'll do their best to marginalize what's before the viewers eyes.

 

[#12in21]

It just seems that FS1 is completely unaware that the viewers are actually there to watch a women's basketball game. The idea that these viewers may actually be more interested in commentary or anything in depth about women's BB rather than men's BB seems beyond their comprehension. They'll take the viewership and the commercial money but otherwise they'll do their best to marginalize what's before the viewers eyes.

Absolutely, FS1 showed that they have a total lack of understanding of who their audience is and a lack of respect for the beauty of the women's game. This was the conference championship game featuring a very young team that has risen to be ranked number one in the country from the program that is universally accepted to be the best program in WCBB history on their first year back in the Big East. With a wealth of potential storylines that could have been explored, a decent analysis of the actual game in progress and reporting on other key WCBB games/happenings they lead with .......

 

[Boreifs]

The announcers, though, were excellent. Much better than anything ESPN has to offer the women’s game.

 

[TB12]

They talk too much ... there was one spot, maybe in the 3rd quarter where they did not say anything for about 25 seconds.. It was very noticeable. They were good, just talk too much

 

[hart2hart]

Did they announce the starting line-ups?
I missed the first couple of minutes.
If not, they should have in a big game like this!
JMO.

 

[bob15]

FS1 doesn't need to show Paige sitting on the sideline for over 1 minute on at least a 1/3 of the screen while the game in being played. They have done it for two games in a row. No need for it. Just show the game and have the announcers call the game without the needless babbling they did so well.

 

[eebmg]

Yea, the ignore button is back up so I can expunge this thread.

 

[GoingPostal]

With all that being said I was glad to see they showed the players celebrating the championship. This is a close knit team that's going to be hard to beat in the tournament.

 

[ME Husky Fan]

With all that being said I was glad to see they showed the players celebrating the championship. This is a close knit team that's going to be hard to beat in the tournament.

Agree on all fronts but if this game was close and timeouts were needed, which would have stretched the game to the top of the hour, we would have seen none of that celebration.

 

[daggittydog]

They talked too much; I hit the mute button.

 

[BBallF]

The camera angles were unwatchable at times, the halftime show was sexist ( seriously?, talking about the men's tourney) and the announcers never shut up. It was just one dull, relentless, irrelevant monotone. Other than that,......

 

[Geew1992]

The moment they called Christyn, Christina...............I knew it was going to be a long night.

 

[hart2hart]

Good point! Really bugged me that the halftime
was all about the men. Geez Louise.
These gals deserved better.

 

[kanener]

ESPN Way better than Fox, just saying.

But I like SNY the best of the 3.....

 

[kanener]

ESPN Way better than Fox, just saying.

Why can't they just call the game and add a few tidbits on the players? This long story of useless crap is beyond the realm of understanding to me and my UConn friends.