28-09-2023, 04:26 PM
(28-09-2023, 01:50 PM)RhysJR Wrote: By the sounds of it, Eurosport are cutting back their snooker presentation. For the upcoming English Open, studio coverage will only begin on the Friday rather than the Monday as has been the case since studio presentation began. A little disappointing, especially with the lack of studio coverage that appears on Eurosport's covergae of anything in general, though it is an obvious cutback for them - I doubt Jimmy White or Ronnie O'Sullivan are particularly cheap.
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Dave Hendon hinted at it on his podcast too. Quite shameful to cut down the studio coverage to such a small sliver, where you would argue that there isn't any point having a studio for just a couple of days. I realise we're all in a cost-cutting era and a large part of this is to do with the WBD + TNT Sport merger, but buying up rights to basically every single event on the World Snooker Tour [barring a couple of Matchroom events], and then stripping back the coverage to the point of requiring the commentators to have to present the programme with little analysis or deep-dives rather devalues the sport. All this does is makes ITV and BBC coverage look positively top-notch by comparison.