Excellent post. Seeing as the BBC have confirmed that the fault was outside of the control of Viking, have they also said that the fault did allow for alternatives to be exercised? Or was their consumer led collaboration not able to help? You only talk of usual backups, rather than what was feasible and possible. In any event, you seem to have put an awful lot of old bollocks well and truely to bed. I get the competitiveness of the broadcasting companies and their tongue-in-cheek comments, but, perhaps, a bit of moral high ground and less of the schadenfreude would have been wiser in what has been turned into yet another Hull City AFC carry on.
Happy is never gonna be anything other than deliberately contradictory just as Chazz is always in a state of angry bitterness.
Good for you. He's probably a good morning local DJ too. He's ****ing awful at commentating on football though. Add in Swan who is as bad as Gollum and it's horrendous. He had the opportunity to properly support CTWD and more recent protests, and as had the opportunity to ask difficult questions. He didn't. He liked the gravy train too much. Yet he's now seen as a journalist with integrity thrown to the wolves. Despite that being no way near the truth. Good riddance imo.
On your first point, no they didn't. I can only guess from experience, that the mobile phone option wasn't available to Grahame Lloyd i.e. he didn't have the journalists mobile needed or the stadium signal wasn't up to sustaining it. The beeb use a particular model as do IR stations) them to file reports, but you can plug in a little mixer into them for two presenters i.e. they just replace the ISDN. Sorry I am getting boring now... The short range transmitter back up would have been ideal, although cumbersome to carry along with everything else. There are no frequency clashes with emergency services using that system, but they would have had to connect up to a station within a short distance and of course with an ISDN. I realise I am stating the bleeding obvious, but they probably just trusted Villa's systems.
For the record, I think Ehab is a ****. I'm glad to see the back of RH, as someone who's needed radio to listen to games, I passionately believe they were terrible. Beyond terrible. Unprofessional and boring. One thing they never were was challenging to the club or anything like journalists with integrity. Sticking with them because they're the BBC or long standing is bonkers. This whole line thing does stink of someone being cute, then Hogarth and Burns comments add to that. Despite nobs like Lambo etc making out its Viking and that the whole switch was trying to oppress and control the media. Which it ain't. As Fez has pointed out, there's plenty wrong that could be focussed on, instead we have to put up with this ****e.
If you'd actually listened to the Burnsy show, you know how challenging he's been and why it's cost him the commentary gig.
He was ****ing challenging to listen to during football matches. He certainly wasn't challenging during interviews or on twitter. If he was, you'd have copy pasted it for us all.
Thankfully, Talk$hite had the Villa game ..If £Viking can't provide a service then HCAFC have to go back to RH. And we know what the chances of that are. Like finding Elvis living with Lady Di and Lord Lucan on a desert island somewhere inside the Bermuda triangle. PS...heard Burgess doing the Scunny game....Quality description by the big lad.
"Eventually, I have been told that this whole process eas trialled at the end of last season;" Forgive me if I'm being stupid here, but are they not your words ? If they are, exactly what were you suggesting in post #527 ? Are you questioning my use of "thoroughly tested (trialled)" for putting words in your mouth ? "The detail that Viking trialled delivering commentary has been mentioned on here a number of times and I 'm surprised you haven't noticed it" Seems an odd statement given what I said, in post #531: "As a subscribing user of TigersPlayer for a number of years, I was aware that the RH crew were replaced by new commentators sometime during last season - subsequently was informed that it was Viking who replaced them." Your last question. Yes - significant to prove a product functionality/stability before charging a customer for a service that has been replaced. If it screws up, a back-up plan should be in place - in most situations, reverting to the old system that actually worked in a production environment. The owners of the club have to have some responsibility for the situation - they hired the developers/ implementors of the new product.
Really?? I certainly have missed that. Driff doesn't get a lot right but he's been calling for them to do some investigative journalism and call them out for a couple of years now. While you've been saying they can't. So...
