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I'd guess the appeal of the Commonwealth games is casual at best for most people.
The amount of people who will pay to watch must be tiny.
Well that will kill it right off.
I’d wager they’ll be a free month of HBO MAX to suck people in… watch that games, see other things you like, choose/forget to cancel.
Not a good move though. And a big risk for the games, when they already risk completely losing the status they once had.
Confirmation of the end of the CG. I guess it's right that Glasgow should, in compensation for hosting the event, seek to maximise income but restricting the audience will surely make it less attractive for athletes in future.
Seems like another nail in the coffin of the commonwealth games as a major sporting event. I am at least partially convinced that sport and entertainment as a spectacle is mainly used as "panem et circenses" although I am a weary old cynic
But in truth...how much would you have watched anyway?
Commonwealth Games has very much run its course as a concept....as has the commonwealth in general.
Agree, games go first and then the whole commonwealth to follow.
Who makes these decisions?
Duplipost
Will be free to watch on GB News, if you can prove you are a Commonwealth citizen 😉
"Will be free to watch on GB News, if you can prove you are a WHITE Commonwealth citizen 😉 "
Fixed that for you.
Oh well - will have to go and watch in the flesh. Boys had a great time at last Glasgow games and the atmosphere for the cycling road race was pure dead brilliant. The noise for the first climb on Col de Montrose Street was something else.
Oh well - will have to go and watch in the flesh. Boys had a great time at last Glasgow games and the atmosphere for the cycling road race was pure dead brilliant. The noise for the first climb on Col de Montrose Street was something else
No (outdoor) cycling at these games. Only track
Slightly OT, how is the BBC going to move forward, every broadcaster/internet presence is trying to charge a monthly fee, but I think too many and too much, where will it go...
I like athletics particularly so I'd have watched it, but not way I'll pay a sub to do so. So as above, that'll be for the games though they've been dying for a while anyway.
I’m not that fussed but a lot of my family would have watched it… losing it off the BBC is crap.
<cough> IPTV <cough>
when they already risk completely losing the status they once had
....As they have already lost the status they once had....
FTFY
I'm sure everyone in Brum enjoyed them, but who else watched anything. A complete anachronism in the C21
Agree. It was always a bit of a pointless affair at the best of times.
Slightly OT, how is the BBC going to move forward, every broadcaster/internet presence is trying to charge a monthly fee, but I think too many and too much, where will it go...
I suspect the only long term viable model for it is state funding. And probably with fewer top-tier presenters (i.e. more low six figure salaries that are palatable to the the average person rather than 7 figures).
And probably more stories like this. A lot of their budgets have been cut to the bone, it's hard to justify something like mainstream sports coverage with it's expensive fees (and high costs) when the private sector can and will step in and do it, does anyone really care if the world cup is on itv and the F1 on C4? Would it be so bad if the Olympics was on ITV too as long as there was some obligation to stream every event (which they would because the host broadcaster would provide the streams).
Some of its flagship shows I don't think could have existed without the BBC. Things like Strictly, the relaunched MasterChef, GBBO (now C4), just wouldn't have been commissioned by a commercial operation and are of cultural value. But shows like The Wheel? It must be expensive to make and would anyone be poorer for it never existing?
Slightly OT, how is the BBC going to move forward, every broadcaster/internet presence is trying to charge a monthly fee, but I think too many and too much, where will it go...
I suspect the only long term viable model for it is state funding. And probably with fewer top-tier presenters (i.e. more low six figure salaries that are palatable to the the average person rather than 7 figures).
And probably more stories like this. A lot of their budgets have been cut to the bone, it's hard to justify something like mainstream sports coverage with it's expensive fees (and high costs) when the private sector can and will step in and do it, does anyone really care if the world cup is on itv and the F1 on C4? Would it be so bad if the Olympics was on ITV too as long as there was some obligation to stream every event (which they would because the host broadcaster would provide the streams).
Some of its flagship shows I don't think could have existed without the BBC. Things like Strictly, the relaunched MasterChef, GBBO (now C4), just wouldn't have been commissioned by a commercial operation and are of cultural value. But shows like The Wheel? It must be expensive to make and would anyone be poorer for it never existing?
But in truth...how much would you have watched anyway?
A significant amount, actually. However, I won’t be signing up to HBOmax, unless it’s already part of something else I’m signed up to.
Boys had a great time at last Glasgow games and the atmosphere for the cycling road race was pure dead brilliant. The noise for the first climb on Col de Montrose Street was something else.
But that was the UCI world champs, most of us watched that.
But that was the UCI world champs, most of us watched that.
The 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games had a cycle road race - Geraint Thomas won the men's race.
Seems mad they're not doing mtb, given the course built especially for the games in 2014!
It just doesn't mean anything does it though.
Like win the Olympics and your are up there with the greatest any country has to offer.
Win the commonwealth games "well done for beating Es Swatini in the netball"
The CG was more of an (expensive) obligation for the BBC. The event itself is dying.
When a host country (Victoria, Aus) pulls out due to cost you kinda get the impression the status of the event isn’t what it was.
Many sports (including MTB) are not happening because the games have been cut back because Victoria pulled out so only “core” sports are included.
oh, and BBC moving forward.. subscription. News will remain free but everything else will be behind a paywall..
Many sports (including MTB) are not happening because the games have been cut back because Victoria pulled out so only “core” sports are included.
Good example of my point.
I was there in Glasgow last time and there were three groups.
World class (or best available)
"This great fun i am going tonsend it"
And the "the only jamaican to ride a mountainbike... Oh **** a drop off"
It was good fun but you didn't walk away thinking you had watched the pinnacle of mtb racing.
Well that will kill it right off.
A counterargument perhaps: having potential "reach" doesn't pay the bills. The Commonwealth Games organising committee will do better by getting more money and a smaller audience from TNT than it will from getting less money and a bigger audience from the BBC. That's more money for athletes, operating expenses and the rest.
Commonwealth Games isn't like football where watching a game is the top of the engagement funnel where later on you buy an Everton shirt. You can't buy an eSwatini Canoe Slalom shirt (unfortunately).
I don't like the sports business and there's a huge amount of bullshit economics around hosting and broadcasting sports events...but I might be able to see the CG's logic.
Another watering down of all the things most of us were bought up on.
Times change, I guess, but there are many things, including printed magazines like Singletrack that are disappearing from the shelves, pubs, hedgerow ‘stashes’ , cash, childhood innocence, easy parking at Llanberis….
Sometimes I’m happy about local trails and my single speed.
