Comments on: Did You See Miroslav Klose’s Goal? Neither Did We!

By: Tamim

Tamim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:09:41 +0000

el jazeera’s broadcasting was cut like the rest of the channels, i was watching there.!!

By: diana

diana — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:54:24 +0000

The situation here in Singapore is that (I think this came about during the second transmission breakdown) there are a message on the TV screen apologising for the breakdown. Ended up I have to depend on Daryl’s liveblogging of the tournament to know what was going on. By the time minutes after the third transmission breakdown, the match was already over and I got the images of the German players celebrating being in the final.

And throughout today on the channel which is showing the tournament, there was an explanation (the statements run at the bottom of the screen) explaining what led to the breakdown in transmission and said that it will show the repeat of the match match in full (there was a repeat in the afternoon which I watched).

It’s really scary not to be able to watch the key moments ‘live’.

Jan, contary to the initlal reports, it has been revealed today that Al-Jazeera had some loss of the signal as well. Here – http://sport.sg.msn.com/Football/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1526093

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:12:40 +0000

Good point. Why force all TV stations to take the signal from Vienna, while Swiss TV and Jazeera are allowed to take it right from the stadium?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:10:39 +0000

maybe because they have all their money on Swiss Bank Accounts, and therefore receive special treatment from the Swiss

By: JC

JC — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:23:42 +0000

ok swiss TV having access makes sense, but why Jazeera?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:13:39 +0000

@TJ : It was played in a Swiss Stadium so the Swiss television company had access to the TV signals before they were sent to the Int. Broadcast Centre in Vienna…
the only “problem” was that the TV commentary came over the phone and the pictures had a delay of about 3 seconds, so we heard that Klose scored but the pictures still showed Lahm with the ball… same happened with the equalizer and the 3:2…
It was a bit confusing.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:31:03 +0000

but how come only Swiss TV and Al-Jazeera were airing the game then?

By: Yevy

Yevy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:47:44 +0000

I am just shocked that it wasn’t an isolated ESPN screw up.

By: Johannes

Johannes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:57:29 +0000

“It’s great watching games on TV and all, but the only way to really and truly guarantee seeing a game is to get yourself inside the stadium.”

hahahaha, you kill me….if you can’t effort EURO 1,000, or work for one of the sponsors, you don’t have a lot of choice !

By: Jenica

Jenica — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:36:06 +0000

In China, the commentators of CCTV apologized. The TV station replayed the German,Turkish goal scoring video over and over again and the video of Lahm brought down by the Turkish dude, then the commentators said that the referee was so unfair about that judgement and it should be given a free kick or penalty kick or something. After that, i went to sleep, cos i don’t know how long it’s gonna take…( this match was broadcasted at 2:30 am in Beijing time)