Monday, December 22, 2008

The Great Indian Sports Channels

Most of us in India love cricket. They say cricket is a religion in India. Hmm, thats just too much to say though.
There are quite a few channels these days which broadcast this religion live for us. Or do they? May be they broadcast adverts more than cricket...
I feel it miserable and angry when these sports channels rob us few crucial moments of our favorite sport.
The bowler just takes a wicket and the next millisecond there is a advert, you cant even see the replay immediately. Adverts are shown as soon as the bowler finishes delivering the bowl. They don't even wait for the wicket keeper to collect the bowl and the umpire to say Over.
Some times, we can see only 5 bowls in an over, the first bowl is lost for the adverts. Specially when it comes to DD and Neo, they are the masters in the above skills. Robbing us the crucial moments.
But do we have any other choice? We have to still continue watching it in the same way. I know they run the business to make money. But you need to be fare to your viewers.
Well, another part is commentary. These channels hire some commentators who don't know how to comment. They might be getting them for low rates compared to some good but costly commentators. Finally, we have to suffer.

How can we avoid this? If I could know....