- Joined
- Jun 27, 2003
To tell the truth, I honestly prefer icenetwork's coverage, no commentary whatsoever, the viewer can evaluate the performance on his/her own merit, without the influence of the commentator(s). But one must be a knowledgeable skating fan to do this, otherwise the uninformed viewer doesn't understand a thing that's going on in terms of jumps, et al. Maybe we just need a robot/humanoid to take over commentary so no bias comes into play.
and that's exactly why networks have commentators. not everyone knows what's going on or what to look for. NBC is notoriously US biased. Can't really blame them they are the NATIONAL broacasting Channel... they were biased well before Scott joined the team... and I still stand by my opinion that his tone matches those around him. I don't recall him being as 'grumpy old man' on CBS.
but yeah it can get annoying. I didn't see today's broadcast so I don't know if he has gotten worse.