TV3’s Six Nations coverage got off to a rough start.
Is there anything more frustrating than someone trying to sell you shit while you’re trying to watch something?
Finally finding that YouTube video you’ve been racking your brain to find will inevitably be followed by an ad delaying your viewing pleasure. However, once the internet sales pitch is over, you always get to watch your selected clip from the beginning.
It’s rare that an advertisement actually causes you to miss what you’re watching. When you watch a movie in the cinema, the trailers come before the film begins – never during the opening scene. Those YouTube ads precede the video. In television, the ads usually air during the intervals of the game.
Usually.
That's it, TV3. Miss the kick off of your first #SixNations game for the sake of a few more seconds of ads…
— Oisín Gregorian (@Oisgreg) February 3, 2018
The spotlight shone on TV3’s coverage of the 2018 Six Nations has been blinding so far. For so long, viewers have been accustomed to seeing RTE show them their beloved rugby games. So unsurprisingly, the transition to be accepted as the official broadcaster of the oval-balled game was always going to be a tough one.
One way to ease this process would to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch. No fuck-ups, no errors, no making a balls of anything. If you don’t give the haters any reason to give out, then everything should go swimmingly.
Unfortunately, they fucked up. Viewers tuning in to the tournament opener between Wales and Scotland were left very disappointed when they missed the first 20 seconds of the game. Instead, they were forced to endure ads.
The reaction was, predictably, one of rage.
Good start for TV3, missed the kickoff…. #6Nations #TV3Rugby
— Éamonn J Tully (@I_Am_Eamonn) February 3, 2018
#TV3 TV FUCKING 3 !!!!!! first ever 6 nations match and they miss the kick off for adverts. Stupid bastards. Seriously amateur. #WALvSCO
— stephen gaynor (@gaynorsjf) February 3, 2018
#TV3 First run at the Six Nations and they miss the bloody kick off
— Garrett Donnelly 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@garrettdonnelly) February 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/ColinBMarketing/status/959826313161814016
Tv3 missing the kick-off for the rugby, the cameraman is useless and commentary is boring as fuck, bring back Rte and Ryle Nugent! #6Nations #sixnations2018 #WALvSCO
— Shaun O'Brien (@Shaun__1990) February 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/whoaskedya/status/959797425543229441
#TV3Rugby great start to TV3's 6 Nations coverage. Missed the kick off to the tournament because of advert. Pathetic Amateurs!
— David Delahunty (@delahunty78) February 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/k_otoole1/status/959794277382606848
#tv3 mess up the opening game of the @SixNationsRugby championships by showing stupid ads instead of kickoff! Idiots
— Deirdre Milner (@DeirdreMilner) February 3, 2018
Typical #tv3 going to a fecken add break and we miss the kick off and 30 seconds of the start of the #walesvscotland #6Nations
— Tom D (@tomd2408) February 3, 2018
