SHOW MORE OLYMPIC BASKETBALL COVERAGE ON CHANNEL 7!!!
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Throughout your coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there has been a great deal of concern about the amount of respect and support being shown towards the sport basketball, more specifically, the men's Australian basketball team. There has been constant promotion of the women's and men's basketball team games throughout the days, telling us all to "stick around", saying that the Opals and Boomers will be on "soon". While the coverage has been good for the Opals thus far, there has been inaccurate and false advertising used for the men's basketball team for both games against Croatia and Argentina.
A lot of anger and frustration has been expressed amongst the strong basketball community in Australia when the men's basketball has constantly been interrupted for several hours by events such as Gymnastics, Equestrian (horses jumping sticks!?) and medal ceremonies with anthems that are shown in their entirety, while people have work and school the next day.
There has been a group of almost 1,000 Australians who have joined this group at facebook.com in less than 24 hours: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29652704433
People have joined to express their opinions and frustration towards the lack of quality coverage and support for the Australian men's basketball team shown by channel 7.
While we honestly appreciate your coverage when the basketball is shown and not promoted inaccurately, it just isn't fair, or "Australian", to only show the basketball when we are "winning", especially when tens of thousands of Australians around the country are staying up late hoping to support the Boomers and get inspired.
The following is the beginning of an official petition (started on Wednesday 13th August 2008 at 3.02pm) of people across Australia asking for better and more accurate coverage of the men's and women's basketball teams.
Thank you
This petition was initiated by MSF/Hoopcity magazine, and influenced by thousands of Australians
A lot of anger and frustration has been expressed amongst the strong basketball community in Australia when the men's basketball has constantly been interrupted for several hours by events such as Gymnastics, Equestrian (horses jumping sticks!?) and medal ceremonies with anthems that are shown in their entirety, while people have work and school the next day.
There has been a group of almost 1,000 Australians who have joined this group at facebook.com in less than 24 hours: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29652704433
People have joined to express their opinions and frustration towards the lack of quality coverage and support for the Australian men's basketball team shown by channel 7.
While we honestly appreciate your coverage when the basketball is shown and not promoted inaccurately, it just isn't fair, or "Australian", to only show the basketball when we are "winning", especially when tens of thousands of Australians around the country are staying up late hoping to support the Boomers and get inspired.
The following is the beginning of an official petition (started on Wednesday 13th August 2008 at 3.02pm) of people across Australia asking for better and more accurate coverage of the men's and women's basketball teams.
Thank you
This petition was initiated by MSF/Hoopcity magazine, and influenced by thousands of Australians
659 Signatures
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David Coles
- Age
- 25
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Comments
- Show more basketball without overly extended interuptions!!! people have to work or go to school the next day.... what's the point of showing horses jump sticks for an hour while the mens basketball team were playing live against the olympic defending champions Argentina? Channel 7 need to lift their game
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aaron
- Age
- 15
- Location
- perth
- Comments
- show more basketball!
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Mark Watkins
- Age
- 33
- Location
- melbourne
- Comments
- very poor by channel 7
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Will P
- Age
- 21
- Location
- melbourne
- Comments
- what the hell was up with horse jumpin last night and skipping a whole quarter???? it better get better
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michael james
- Age
- 17
- Location
- adelaide SA
- Comments
- bout time something was done !
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Matthew Skinner
- Age
- 29
- Location
- Bankstown, NSW
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Paul
- Age
- 27
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Show more Basketball
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Eric
- Age
- 21
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Basketball is a great game, watched by millions pls show us live full games!!
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Can Dang
- Age
- 18
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Chanel 7 have to show more coverage of basketball instead of showing start of 3rd quater etc.
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chris stevens
- Age
- 32
- Location
- melbourne
- Comments
- i think the coverage is poor
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Austin Murphy
- Age
- 16
- Location
- Ballarat
- Comments
- The coverage has been a disgrace. Get your act in gear 7, because a lot of viewers will jump off not just the Olympics, but Footy also. Show what the majority want to watch, not Gymnastics or Equestrian. Olyroos coverage was also very bad.
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William Patrick
- Age
- 21
- Location
- Adelaide
- Comments
- Channel 7 suck
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Monica
- Age
- 14
- Location
- Adelaide
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Hariyanto Lim
- Location
- sydney
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Leslie Taus
- Age
- 24
- Location
- Cranbourne
- Comments
- 7 needs to give up the olympics as they are doing a sub par effort. why not give the sports you have but dont show to sbs so australia can cheer on our athletes not watch 5 second highlights on the news in the morning.
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James
- Age
- 18
- Location
- Sandringham
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Chris hanson
- Age
- 24
- Location
- Sydney
- Comments
- Thanks for the pathetic "coverage" of the boomers.
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Jason Mifsud
- Age
- 19
- Location
- Adelaide, South Australia
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Daniel
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Disgraceful
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Craig Gibbens
- Age
- 30
- Location
- Keysborough
- Comments
- Why sports like handball get more coverage then basketball is beyond me. There is a massive amount of people who play basketball competitively compared to people who play handball, gymastics or swimming competitively throughout Australia. Think of this before you televise another game of handball and start giving basketball the respect it deserves
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Matthew Hadji
- Location
- Melbourne
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Sean McDonald
- Age
- 24
- Location
- Australia
- Comments
- Coverage gas been crap~! Play the basketball!!! It is one of the countries biggest sports and you had it behind Equestrian!!!! Stupid!!
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Alastair Flack
- Age
- 21
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- We need more coverage.
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David Easton
- Location
- Mornington
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Ernie
- Location
- B-rat
- Comments
- Abysmal coverage
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Louise Bateman
- Age
- 26
- Location
- Sydney
- Comments
- Basketball needs more coverage
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Elliott Rychter
- Age
- 16
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Id love to see some more olympic basketball and at the moment channel 7's coverage of the basketball has been very dissapointing
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Anna
- Location
- Brisbane
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Mark Brooker
- Age
- 30
- Location
- Sydney
- Comments
- It's poor that you always seem to stuff up sporting events, and even more so that a few of my mates play for the Boomers and only half or a 1/4 of the game shown.
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Nate Deeming
- Age
- 26
- Location
- Beaumaris
- Comments
- I wonder if channel 7 realises that EVERYONE not just basketball fans hate Channel 7. What a bunch of Muppets
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Andrea Von
- Age
- 18
- Location
- Sydney
- Comments
- Channel 7 is disgusting
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everard bartlett
- Age
- 22
- Location
- new zealand
- Comments
- more bball
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Blake Stroh
- Location
- Sydney
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Adam Magnabosco
- Age
- 23
- Location
- Melbourne
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Tanya Bennett
- Age
- 19
- Location
- Melbourne
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James Davis
- Age
- 28
- Location
- Brunswick
- Comments
- I have never felt angry towards a television or television station until Channel 7 insulted me with their basketball coverage (or lack thereof). Very, very dissapointed!
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zachary c
- Age
- 18
- Location
- melbourne
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Genna C
- Age
- 21
- Location
- Adelaide, Australia
- Comments
- WE WANT MORE BASKETBALL!!!!!
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Vaughan Judd
- Age
- 29
- Location
- Sydney
- Comments
- The coverage at this point has been shocking.
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Thomas
- Age
- 30
- Location
- South Australia
- Comments
- The Coverage is S**T & the advertising is misleading.
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Robert Glover
- Age
- 22
- Location
- Toowoomba
- Comments
- Please take this seriously! I do not enjoy watching replays that have been shown over 3 times already either!
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Andrew
- Age
- 29
- Location
- Melbourne
- Comments
- Just damn show the games
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Clifford Kwan
- Location
- Jindalee
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Lindsay Gaze
- Location
- Melbourne
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anthony
- Age
- 16
- Location
- melbourne
- Comments
- show the full games!!!
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stuart white
- Location
- Campbelltown, NSW
- Comments
- Appalling coverage 7....only showing "winning" sports and even then packing them with annoying adverts...
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Lisbeth Atkinson
- Age
- 40
- Location
- Sydney
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brendan cole
- Location
- Melbourne
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Emily Schultz
- Age
- 24
- Location
- Brisbane
- Comments
- they don't play the basketball when they say they are going to play it, and don't play a full game
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Phill Cooper
- Age
- 22
- Location
- moorabbin australia
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