ESPN & Belmont Day: Come for Kenny, stay for honest to God racing

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Boy that segment with Woolley was comedy gold.

Hey they had the sense to get a blurb from Steve Haskin for one of those rerun segments they did. Made my day right there.

[Bobby Fischer]

Why is the only Belmont Stakes Video on ESPN , a condensed top of the stretch version?

ABC/ESPN ... Where are the high quality videos? Unique camera angles?? ANYTHING WORTH MY DOWNLOAD? The short stretch only view isn't even better than what youtube has up. kind of pathetic considering the technology at their fingertips.

Thankfully Youtube has some nice videos up from users. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwG-zvPOlA

[Alan07]

The word is that the Belmont rating isn't going to be good

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Alan07

The word is that the Belmont rating isn't going to be good

No chance for horse racing with that amazing NHL game tonight.

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

No chance for horse racing with that amazing NHL game tonight.

yea, that was riveting

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Alan07

The word is that the Belmont rating isn't going to be good

i did see that attendence for the race was over 50k-certainly higher than what was projected by some on here...
but i'm not surprised tv is down.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Alan07

The word is that the Belmont rating isn't going to be good

i listen to espn radio all day monday through friday 8am-4pm and they didn't run promos for the belmont until this week. And they did Not run the heck out of the promo like they do everything else.

[Stickhorse]

No doubt NBC did a much better job with their promotion of the first two jewels.

ABC/ESPN is too busy pushing the NBA playoffs.

Too bad because it was a hell of a race.

[Antitrust32]

Was anyone else highly annoyed by that scroll thing they had on the left hand side of the TV with the results of the previous races (eventhough they left OFF the turf race?) There was like 4 race results that just kept being shown over and over and over... I would imagine a lot of the people watching didnt even know what it was. And they had it up til the horses broke from the gate in the Belmont Stakes. It cut off a lot of view and just looked stupid. Its one thing if there was 100 results to go through, but showing 4 results OVer and Over and Over annoyed the hell outta me.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Was anyone else highly annoyed by that scroll thing they had on the left hand side of the TV with the results of the previous races (eventhough they left OFF the turf race?) There was like 4 race results that just kept being shown over and over and over... I would imagine a lot of the people watching didnt even know what it was. And they had it up til the horses broke from the gate in the Belmont Stakes. It cut off a lot of view and just looked stupid. Its one thing if there was 100 results to go through, but showing 4 results OVer and Over and Over annoyed the hell outta me.

I never checked the standard feed but since it was off to the side I just assumed it was for the HD feed. Networks don't seem to know what to do with that added area since they can't put anything too important that the viewers on the standard feed won't be able to see. In most cases just putting nothing there would be preferable.