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- From: mliu@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Mei-Ling L. Liu)
- Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
- Subject: Write to ESPN to complain ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.214108.9464@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:41:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.164045.17741@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> <1992Nov23.191757.20007@chpc.utexas.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov23.191757.20007@chpc.utexas.edu> eddie@chpc.utexas.edu (Eddie Hedges) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.164045.17741@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>, arijeet@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Arijit Das) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov21.224231.17249@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
- >> >
- >> > ESPN also skipped a lot of the Becker-Ivanisevic match, televising
- >> >the third set, after Goran won the first 6-4, and Becker won the
- >>
- >> In my opinion the media is out of touch with fan response, tennis at
- >> the top level is beyond national boundaries, so even if two Americans
- >> were playing (Courier vs Sampras), any average tennis fan would have
- >> expected the Becker - Ivanisevic match to be more interesting. Instead
- >> we do see a boring upset (Courier beats Sampras), and the last bit
- >> of a very interesting match (Becker beats Ivanisevic in a third set
- >> tie breaker). What little they showed was great to watch.
- >
- > I feel the same way. This has happened many times over the years. I almost
- >have the feeling one of the network executives in charge of scheduling is
- >really a, say, football expert and thinks to himself or herself hmmmmm....
- >I've heard of this fellow Courier (the baseball fan) but who the heck is
- >Ivanisevic? Well lets put the Sampras kid on, I saw him on Johnny Carson :-).
-
- Rather than complaining amongst ourselves about the tennis coverage in this
- country, I hope you would complain to ESPN directly, copying ATP if you
- can. Yes, the way ESPN has been covering the ATP tournaments is, in my
- opinion, really uninspired. It may be that they are limited in their options,
- or it may be because of economic considerations. But I don't like
- the limited broadcast of a handful of matches either.
-
- So, if you can, write a letter to ESPN and tell them how you feel.
- Their address is :
- ESPN
- 935 Middle St.
- Bristol, CT 06010
- Their phone # is (203)585-2000.
-
- If they don't hear from us, they will assume that they are doing the
- right thing.
-
- M. Liu
-