No acknowledgement of GB win...

I think it is appalling when you see the amount of coverage the bloody Ryder Cup gets. I too thought there should have been some mention on the national news. All we can do is keep informing the powers that be and hope they listen.
 
Nothing in the Telegraph today either :mad:

Appalling given the Telegraph's usually the one who DOES report Equestrian stuff :(
 
I think it is such a shame, especially as sorts that we are rubbish at (World Cup anyone :rolleyes:) gets all the news.

The only way the sport would get more coverage is if more people watched the coverage shown, but with it difficult for people to view on 'normal tv', then how are more people going to get to see it?
 
I made an announcement in briefing at school this morning just to let them know as we always get the football news from some of them! The Principal then asked me if any of the students I take to Polo were in the winning team! We howled! but again.....lots had no idea the WEG was on!
 
kamkam said:
I think it is such a shame, especially as sorts that we are rubbish at (World Cup anyone :rolleyes:) gets all the news.

The only way the sport would get more coverage is if more people watched the coverage shown, but with it difficult for people to view on 'normal tv', then how are more people going to get to see it?
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The Red Button coverage is pretty poor too with a lot of it not available on Freeview and what happened on Saturday afternoon? I was watching the XC and at around 4pm(?) it disappeared and the "this stream has now finished" came up. I switched over to Eurosport and have been watching Eurosport ever since. Their coverage has been excellent but then not everyone has cable or satellite
 
Madz said:
I do think it's really bad, right now this country is statistically the best in the entire world at three day eventing - how many other sports can we truly say that about?

the world cup - let's be frank, we were pretty rubbish, and how much coverage did THAT get! and cricket, snooker, rugby even darts - they all get so much more coverage :(

I don't follow any other sport really, but I can appreciate it when the country does well at something - shame people don't seem to want to make the effort when equestrian sports do
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Yours is not the only Brit sport success to get ignored.

For instance the BBC shows Moto GP motorcycle racing, which is processional and has no British contenders. But as far as they are concerned it is the only motorcycle sport worth showing.

A British enduro rider, David Knight , is world champ in his sport year after year and never gets a mention (enduro is long-distance cross-country riding, with timed special stages thrown in.

Snooker isn't even a sport: it's a pub game, while the less said about football the better.

I share your frustration!
 
Also anything our womens teams do, and we do incredibly well in cricket and football at world level, never gets mentioned. Theyd rather focus on the men losing another match
 
After the Kur wasn't shown (now that was bizarre, but I guess rained off Ryder Cup on Five Live is WAY more important) I did an online complaint to the BBC. I live a couple of miles from Laura B and felt it was dreadful they didn't show any of the Kur or mention it on the news. Anyway I had a reply this morning. And ontop, my reply:

In the end James GB won more medals than any other nation, beating Germany and Holland, as the Paradressage riders were so fantastic. And of course the BBC didn’t cover any of that either. Barely reported in the news, I think the whole thing was a shambles, and so do a lot of equestrian sport followers and participants. Equestrianism is hardly a minority sport yet you treat it as such. In fact the Ryder cup was cancelled most of the day Laura B did her final dressage test and you were only showing five live coverage on the red button as it is.

Yours, not impressed

Sally Peachey (not just an Audience Member)

From: complaintresponse@bbc.co.uk [mailto:complaintresponse@bbc.co.uk]
Sent: 12 October 2010 22:32
To: Sally Peachey
Subject: BBC Complaints - Case number CAS-330373-046K2Q

Dear Audience Member

Reference CAS-330373

Thank you for your e-mail regarding ‘World Equestrian Games’ broadcast on BBC Red Button.

We understand you’re unhappy with the amount coverage of ‘World Equestrian Games’. I note you felt this should have been covered because British participant had won medals.

We only have limited resources and have to spread those resources across a great number of sports, including many minority sports which other commercial channels do not cover.

We have an obligation to our audience to bring coverage of the most notable sporting events to BBC Television as and when we can as there is, undeniably, a huge audience for it.
Currently the Commonwealth Games is on BBC Red Button covering most live events.

We’re guided by the feedback that we receive and to that end I'd like to assure you that I've registered your complaint on our audience log. This is a daily report of audience feedback that's circulated to many BBC staff, including members of the BBC Executive Board, programme makers, channel controllers and other senior managers.

The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.
 
Well done SALP for complaining. I also sent 2 complaints in similar vein to yours and have replied to their reply also like you. BUT how many of the rest of you on this forum have complained. Unless the beeb is bombarded by thousands of complainte they can continue to ignore us as a minority.
 
I complained!! To date I have not had a reply but maybe I will by today. I was sooo annoyed as although they SAID they were showing it at various times on the red button, when they said it was on it appeared it wasn't! I recorded 2 hours of 'showjumping' that was shown sat night/sun morning. Got up sun morning and thought "Ooh, I'll watch a bit whilst having my breakfast". However, there wasn't any on!!! All that had recorded was F1 Grand Prix or something equally dull and then another sport I can't remember. Annoyed wans't even the word!!!
Even now I don't actually know how our showjumpers did. I did manage to watch the eventing XC on the laptop and caught the eventing showjumping but that was it.

It does frustrate me that equestrian sport doesn't get the coverage that other sports get although it seems Sky thinks it's worthwhile showing as they seem to have bought most of the rights to show the big horse events. Shame I don't have Sky and do not intend to get it either but if this is going to be how things go then maybe I shall have to.

Plus, horse racing is on every week without fail. As much as I do enjoy it, maybe they should show less of that and more of other equestrian sports??
 
I don't think any amount of complaining will help unfortunately as horse sports are just not on their radar. Everything is down to budget and it isn't cost effective if they don't get the viewer numbers.

I looked into getting Sky and was told I'd need Sky sports 1 and 2 for the sjing when in fact most has been on 3 and 4 so dearer package again. For it to be on 3 and 4 it doesn't appear Sky see it as high profile compared to other sports.

I was surprised that Swimming has been all over the news with Tom Daley and without wishing to take anything away from him I don't know one person into competitive swimming as an interest :confused:
 
It may not be cost effective to have the equestrian sports covered in full on terrestrial tv but that doesn't excuse the failure of news programmes to cover our success at WEG. How hard is it for a radio news presenter to simply read out the results????
 
BBC uses the excuse of limited audience for equestrian programs but when I have shown non horsey, as well as horsey friends and neighbours clips on youtube of dressage, vaulting and reining they were all fascinated and said they would definitely whatch it if shown on TV.
 
Yes my non-horsey mum likes watching showjumping, and eventing as long as people don't fall off :rolleyes: she doesn't like watching the dressage so much as she thinks the horses look uncomfortable and forced.

But she watched all of the equestrianism that was on tv during the last olympics and would rather see it than snooker or darts.

Surprisingly for someone non-sporty she will watch most sports on tv, especially if it is the olympics, she even watched the boxing quite avidly! The big exception is football she never watches that.

I think they key is giving the sports fair coverage, it was a bit galling to see the lack of coverage for WEG when there was lots of coverage of other sports, and news items devoted to sports that are currently "out of season". A think whatever the sport a medal win at european championship or world championship level should be mentioned on the news reports by the BBC.
 
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