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Blog: World Cup broadcast, the false start continues

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First the subscription payment didn't work, then the German commentary was annoying. And it goes on: the broadcasting of the Mountain Bike World Cup just doesn't want to be fun. Want some examples? The junior downhill final in Leogang has no sound at all in places and just breaks off somehow. And in the short track race, the control room constantly broadcasts images from Lenzerheide instead of Leogang.

It's pretty cool that the media makers at Discovery are streaming the junior downhill finals for free on YouTube. However, this happens half-heartedly on the World Cup weekend in Leogang: the sound is usually off and there is no moderation either, the stream simply breaks off at some point.

Pure head shaking during the short track race. The director broadcasts beautiful landscape images, but they are not from Leogang at all, but from Lenzerheide. You would really expect more professionalism from a media company like Discovery. The pixelated transmission, which in places is reminiscent of the internet in the noughties, is just as unpleasant. The fact that you have to buy a paid subscription for this puts the icing on the cake of this broadcasting botch.


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