How are the TV broadcasts in your country?

[mvblair]

I've had the chance to watch watch the Latin American broadcasts and the US national broadcasts of these basketball games live. I also watched the Argentine broadcast.

The Latin American broadcast is pretty bad. They showed Women's Field Hockey in Costa Rica, even though basketball is by far a more popular sport. As everybody knows, this is terribly frustrating. There was one commentator, a play-by-play man. He mispronounced almost every player's name and confused their names quite frequently. I think the poor fellow called every Greek player "Zizis."

The Argentine broadcast was much better. I watched it on our illegal cable hookup in Costa Rica. They commentators were sharp and well-informed, especially the play-by-play guy, although the color guy was good too. They knew all the names and rules, but there wasn't too much explanations of plays. But it was very good.

Today is my first day watching the US broadcast on USA Network. We're missing the first minute or so after every quarter and time-out in the Greece/Argentina game. That's awful. Commercialism over sportsmanship. I think they've got ex-NBA coach Doug Collins doing the color and an NBA commentator with the play-by-play. Collins is a good commentator, especially when he's explaining plays, but I hate it when he and other color commentators start blabbing about sports psychology. I never believe that stuff. The play-by-play guy seems to have worked hard on the names for all the teams he's done today and so has Collins. I'm impressed, except that we're missing some of the action.

So what are the commentary and broadcasts like in your country? Good? Bad? Informed? On-time?

[TchatoLT]

In Lithuania before every game that our team plays we have a guest speaker (basketball specialist) who shares his thoughts about the game and etc. Then we have one commentator talking throughout the game, but he's pretty good and I think he says all the names correctly. We always see the all the action. But the problem is that in the group stages they showed very few games live and most games they showed were just replays. When Spain-USA had their game, they showed some 100m qualification sprints

[damelo]

Well, we have dacoury as consultants, but he talks about generalities, sometimes when he speaks I think what? Does he knows what Euroleague is? Well, I hate generally peaking French commentators in every sport, they speak like if everybody listening was a kid who is just discovering the sport. Everybody is beautiful, etc...
Just, tsartsaris is not for Dacoury.

Generally speaking, i don't know exactly what they show during the day, but not much basketball I guess, maybe USA games when no French is participating in something else.

But, with our NT, well... That's normal.

[JGX]

Today is my first day watching the US broadcast on USA Network. We're missing the first minute or so after every quarter and time-out in the Greece/Argentina game.

If you get the extra basketball channel, you can see the games without commercials...it is very annoying when they miss part of the action.

The US men's games have fewer commercials than the other games, only between quarters and they don't miss any action. Some of the women's games have had more commercials.

I think they've got ex-NBA coach Doug Collins doing the color and an NBA commentator with the play-by-play.

It's Mike Breen and Doug Collins. I think they do a good job. They only do one or two games a day, the rest of the games are called from the studio in NYC by Chris Carrino (Nets PBP announcer) and "Snapper" Jones, or Mike Crispino (sometime Knicks announcer) and Bob Salmi (Sixers announcer).

Overall I think the coverage is quite good, you can't complain about the chance to watch all the games in the tournament.

[Dtown]

NBC's stream of the same telecast gets all the action as well. So I can't really fault the extra commercials when they give us extra options.

[sashikas]

Then we have one commentator talking throughout the game, but he's pretty good and I think he says all the names correctly.

To me Kunigėlis' pronounsation of Davor Kus sounds strange. Should it realy sound like "Kush"?

[alermac]

In Argentina, there are two channels airing the Olympics. One is Canal 7 (state network), the other is TyC Sports (cable channel). There are some differences between their coverages:

-TyC has its main anchor (he's basically one guy, all day, talking about almost every sport) broadcasting from Beijing's IBC, and many reporters down there to help and get interviews. Not the basketball commentators, though. C7's guys all broadcast from Buenos Aires.

-C7 includes former athlethes as commentators for specific disciplines, TyC doesn't.

-TyC has a much better image quality.

The Argentine broadcast was much better. I watched it on our illegal cable hookup in Costa Rica. They commentators were sharp and well-informed, especially the play-by-play guy, although the color guy was good too. They knew all the names and rules, but there wasn't too much explanations of plays. But it was very good.

I guess you were talking about TyC's basketball guys. And yes, they are good, but that flaw you mention is real. Possibly because they always broadcast LNB games, and hence have a smaller, more specific audience. But NT games are different.

[mvblair]

If you get the extra basketball channel, you can see the games without commercials...it is very annoying when they miss part of the action.

I wish I had that channel.

It's Mike Breen and Doug Collins. I think they do a good job.

Mike Breen. That's who it is. I can never remember his name.

Overall I think the coverage is quite good, you can't complain about the chance to watch all the games in the tournament.

You're right. I'm happy with it. This is the best international tournament we've ever had broadcast in the US (basketball). Collins and Breen are both sharp in what they do. They obviously studied for this.

I guess you were talking about TyC's basketball guys. And yes, they are good, but that flaw you mention is real. Possibly because they always broadcast LNB games, and hence have a smaller, more specific audience. But NT games are different.

Yes! It was TyC. I thought the coverage was pretty good, but I wanted to see more replays. We had the same problem with our coverage though, so I suppose whoever is "controlling" the TV images in Beijing just isn't putting them up.

[Terps54321]

The extra basketball channel is quality. And its in HD too.

[re5pectas]

In Lithuania before every game that our team plays we have a guest speaker (basketball specialist) who shares his thoughts about the game and etc. Then we have one commentator talking throughout the game, but he's pretty good and I think he says all the names correctly. We always see the all the action. But the problem is that in the group stages they showed very few games live and most games they showed were just replays. When Spain-USA had their game, they showed some 100m qualification sprints

To add:
our commentator sits there (finally! for the first time from very first games!) and sometimes he gives extra information, you can't see on TV.
We have commercials during timeouts, if you watch LIVE, but if you watch replay on LTV2 - no commercials Still they usually don't cut the game

[daniab]

The coverage here in middle east or at least Lebanon is bad/average.
Sometimes we can see many games in the day and sometimes we can see nothing
as an exemple 2day we will not be able to watch US cz its shown on a TV where it needs subscribtion.

[Charbel Sakr]

The coverage here in middle east or at least Lebanon is bad/average.
Sometimes we can see many games in the day and sometimes we can see nothing
as an exemple 2day we will not be able to watch US cz its shown on a TV where it needs subscribtion.

on what channel is it?

i thought its always on channels that need subscription

[Khalid80]

on what channel is it?

i thought its always on channels that need subscription

I actually watch the games on either Eurosport (English commentary) or on Al Jazira Sports 1 (both channels though don't show all the games, but they might today cuz it's the semifinals). Unfortunately no local Lebanese TV is showing any of the games.

[igorotski]

Here in the Philippines, we have all bball on Basketball TV (BTV). They show at least four matches. While the other sports are shown on other 3 channels. One of the 3 shows them 24/7. Most games are not shown live though.

[Charbel Sakr]

I actually watch the games on either Eurosport (English commentary) or on Al Jazira Sports 1 (both channels though don't show all the games, but they might today cuz it's the semifinals). Unfortunately no local Lebanese TV is showing any of the games.

on eurosport 1? weird bcoz i never seen any game on it.
all the time on jazira or nile sport
do u know on which channel are the game today?